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July 17, 2024
A National Labor Relations Board official properly tossed a union's petition to represent Massachusetts Institute of Technology's graduate fellows, correctly finding that the fellows can't unionize because they don't perform work for the university in exchange for compensation, the NLRB ruled Wednesday.
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July 17, 2024
A unionized California strip club may defend against a claim that it breached a settlement agreement by reopening with changed operations after the National Labor Relations Board on Wednesday denied prosecutors' bid for a default judgment.
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July 17, 2024
The Ninth Circuit affirmed a National Labor Relations Board decision Wednesday concluding that an Oregon television station owned by Nexstar violated federal labor law, with the appellate panel supporting make-whole relief for employee negotiators and an order to bargain.
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July 17, 2024
Two workers who were fired after backing a union organizing effort can continue seeking punitive and compensatory damages against a railroad, a Colorado federal district court ruled, supporting a magistrate judge's conclusion that blocking the damages request would "eliminate a significant deterrent."
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July 17, 2024
Bankrupt trucking firm Yellow Corp. hit back at a motion for summary judgment sought by multiple pension funds including Central States Pension Fund, telling a Delaware bankruptcy court that it has no withdrawal liability for backing out of a multistate pension fund for truckers.
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July 17, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board official who won reinstatement for the Memphis 7 — seven worker-organizers fired from a Tennessee Starbucks — must go back to the drawing board now that the U.S. Supreme Court used the case to change the standard for dispensing injunctions, the Sixth Circuit ruled Wednesday.
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July 17, 2024
Labor and employment law firm Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC announced Wednesday that it has added a partner in Miami with decades of experience who joined from Fox Rothschild LLP.
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July 17, 2024
The Seventh Circuit "owes no deference" to the National Labor Relations Board's determinations about violations of federal labor law, Amazon told the appeals court, fighting the board's conclusion that the company unlawfully maintained an off-duty access rule.
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July 16, 2024
A refugee support nonprofit in Pittsburgh settled the United Steelworkers' unfair labor practice claims over terminations and the denial of wage hikes, according to a copy of the settlement obtained by Law360 on Tuesday, with the organization agreeing to shell out more than $198,000 as part of the deal.
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July 16, 2024
National Labor Relations Board prosecutors should continue seeking injunctions in federal court while pursuing unfair labor practice litigation in administrative court despite the U.S. Supreme Court making it harder to obtain those injunctions, the agency's general counsel said in a memo issued Tuesday.
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July 16, 2024
The Seventh Circuit declined Tuesday to reinstate a lawsuit from a Black worker accusing a manufacturing company of firing him in retaliation for complaining about race discrimination with his union, saying there's no error in the lower court's decision despite it relying on his former plant manager's flubbed testimony.
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July 16, 2024
The trustees of two union health plans said Elevance Health Inc. and its subsidiaries violated federal benefits law when they overpaid themselves for administrative services and medical providers for patient care, arguing the insurer had significant control over the management of the plans and their assets.
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July 16, 2024
A Texas-based energy company told a Galveston federal judge Tuesday that parties are afforded "certain rights not to face trial," pushing the court to halt an upcoming National Labor Relations Board administrative proceeding against the company on the basis that the board's process is unconstitutionally structured.
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July 16, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board's finding that Google and its contractor Cognizant are joint employers is "riddled with … flaws," the two companies argued to the D.C. Circuit, challenging the board's application of its 2020 rule when reviewing control over supervision and benefits.
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July 16, 2024
Workers at a Jollibee fast-food restaurant in Jersey City, New Jersey, can vote on representation by an independent union, a National Labor Relations Board official found, saying Jollibee Workers United qualifies as a labor organization under federal labor law.
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July 16, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board will review an agency official's decision to let four supervisors at a Southern California company vote on unionizing, indicating Tuesday that it plans to take a closer look at whether the supervisors have the type of authority that would render them ineligible to unionize.
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July 16, 2024
Law firms' ongoing initiatives to address diversity challenges have driven another year of progress, with the representation of minority attorneys continuing to improve across the board, albeit at a slower pace than in previous years. Here's our data dive into minority representation at law firms in 2023.
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July 16, 2024
Law360’s law firm survey shows that firms' efforts to diversify their equity partner ranks are lagging. But some have embraced a broader talent pool at the equity partner level. Here are the ones that stood out.
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July 15, 2024
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters is trying to intervene in a suit over a California law's mandate for labor peace agreements to obtain money, a cannabis retailer claimed, telling the court that the union lacks an interest to justify its intervention.
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July 15, 2024
A Kansas federal judge held firm Monday on her decision to throw out Yellow Corp.'s $137 million lawsuit against the Teamsters, in which the trucking company accused the union of driving it into bankruptcy by fighting a necessary corporate restructuring.
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July 15, 2024
Remnants remain of the "culture of fear and reprisal" that gripped the United Auto Workers when union leaders were embezzling funds and accepting bribes from automakers in the 2010s, but progress has been made toward cultural change at the union, a court-appointed monitor said in his latest report.
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July 15, 2024
An administrative law judge's decision reinstating a Jersey City police officer after the officer was fired for off-duty marijuana use provides an argument for dismissing the city's lawsuit against the state in which it argues that federal law is at odds with New Jersey law, police officers say in a letter filed Monday in federal court.
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July 15, 2024
A bakery in New York City's Harlem neighborhood violated federal labor law by firing a worker who complained about issues workers had with tips and scheduling at the shop, a National Labor Relations Board judge has ruled, rejecting the bakery's argument that the worker quit.
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July 15, 2024
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. has filed a motion for partial summary judgment in the Chapter 11 case of trucking firm Yellow Corp., telling a Delaware bankruptcy judge the $7.8 billion dispute over Yellow's withdrawal from multistate employee pension programs is a pure question of law that can be decided in the PBGC's favor.
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July 15, 2024
A pension fund for the International Association of Machinists urged the U.S. Supreme Court not to disturb its win in a dispute with two employers over the correct way to calculate how much employers must pay when they withdraw from multiemployer retirement plans, saying retroactive recalculations are valid.