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August 09, 2024
The Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals rejected BAE Systems' $20.8 million appeal over costs related to withdrawing from a union pension plan at the end of a U.S. Air Force contract, saying the contract did not cover those costs.
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August 09, 2024
The Fifth Circuit blocked an order transferring SpaceX's first constitutional challenge to the National Labor Relations Board's powers and protections while it considers whether the district judge wrongly withheld an injunction blocking an agency prosecution.
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August 09, 2024
Workers United will get a chance to challenge a close representation election loss at a Washington Starbucks after the National Labor Relations Board excused the union for missing its filing deadline by a day because of an agency mistake.
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August 09, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for potential preliminary approval of a $16.65 million settlement in a wage and hour suit by pilots. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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August 09, 2024
Starbucks has settled accusations that it bargained in bad faith at over 300 stores by refusing to accommodate virtual bargaining sessions, with a National Labor Relations Board judge approving a settlement in which the company and Workers United agreed to "give reasonable consideration" to each other's bargaining method preferences.
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August 09, 2024
The Second Circuit won't take a second whack at its ruling that a stage workers union can't be held liable under antitrust laws for discouraging members from working with a Broadway producer following complaints about unpaid wages.
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August 09, 2024
This week, a New York federal judge will consider a professor's request for an injunction blocking the University of Rochester from revoking her clinical privileges while she pursues a racial bias lawsuit against the school. Here, Law360 explores this and another employment case on the docket in New York.
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August 09, 2024
More than a month into his role as managing attorney for the nonprofit the Fairness Center, former K&L Gates LLP partner Anthony Holtzman feels assured that he left his old firm, where he worked for nearly 20 years, to help advance a mission he believes in: representing workers in challenges against public-sector unions.
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August 08, 2024
A background actor can take her unpaid wages class action against Amazon Studios back to state court, a California federal judge concluded, finding federal labor law doesn't preempt the claims, which involved the payment of hourly rates that didn't fall under collective bargaining agreements with SAG-AFTRA.
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August 08, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court invited judges to more closely scrutinize decisions of the National Labor Relations Board and other federal agencies in its June decision ditching so-called Chevron deference. Employers have already begun testing the breadth of this invitation.
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August 08, 2024
Starbucks asked the National Labor Relations Board to review an agency judge's decision finding the company committed numerous labor law violations in response to organizing at its cafes near Phoenix, saying the board's recent decision tightening scrutiny of workplace rules unconstitutionally restricts employer speech.
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August 08, 2024
A California tribe that owns a casino must go to arbitration with UNITE HERE over a spat concerning a representation process with a card check procedure, a federal district court has determined, saying the parties agreed to arbitrate disputes about interpretations of a 2017 accord.
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August 08, 2024
The Teamsters can picket around the Amazon Air Hub at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, a federal judge ruled, issuing an order that stops an airport board from denying the union access to a picketing area along a public road given First Amendment considerations.
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August 08, 2024
A U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Thursday criticized the U.S. Department of Labor's stance on independent contractor misclassification, saying the agency hasn't provided enough information on its worker classification investigations.
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August 07, 2024
The American Civil Liberties Union violated federal labor law by firing an attorney who spoke out against her bosses on social media, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled Wednesday, saying the online posts were protected under federal labor law.
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August 07, 2024
Two struggling union pension plans have returned excess bailout funds they received because deceased pensioners weren't removed from their directories, but the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. hasn't said whether 60 other plans with deceased pensioners in their directories returned any extra funds, two Republican congresspeople said.
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August 07, 2024
The Federal Aviation Administration maintained that it is appropriately overseeing Boeing even after years of audits revealed multiple instances of unauthorized work on the aircraft builder's production line, as the National Transportation Safety Board on Wednesday scrutinized company safety and quality control programs during an investigation of the 737 Max 9 jet door plug blowout.
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August 07, 2024
SpaceX can't stop its challenge to the constitutionality of the National Labor Relations Board's structure from landing in California, a Texas federal judge ruled, saying the company appealed to the Fifth Circuit months after the transfer order.
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August 07, 2024
Nexstar can't escape National Labor Relations Board litigation alleging it wrongfully demoted a union supporter by citing its Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial, an agency prosecutor argued, saying the U.S. Supreme Court has deemed the amendment inapplicable to NLRB unfair labor practice cases.
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August 07, 2024
Thompson Coburn LLP has brought on an employee benefits litigator from Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP as a partner in Chicago, picking up a lawyer with over two decades of experience advising and representing employers, plan administrators and fiduciaries.
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August 07, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board used a "speech-censoring standard" to find a Los Angeles store manager made unlawful comments to a worker about unionization, Starbucks argued to the Eighth Circuit, saying the agency didn't consider evidence about whether employees felt threatened.
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August 06, 2024
Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Kamala Harris' pick of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to be her running mate pairs her with a state leader and former lawmaker who has advocated for veterans' rights and public education while also championing a more progressive agenda, from cannabis legalization to abortion care access to stronger union rights.
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August 06, 2024
Counsel for the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association told a Fifth Circuit panel Tuesday that the airline had codified anti-union animus in a written policy, claiming during oral arguments that the airline was working to keep elite "check pilots" from organizing.
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August 06, 2024
Starbucks asked a federal court for limited discovery again in an injunction case that began at western New York stores after the Second Circuit knocked the district court's previous subpoena order, saying the company will narrow the national scope of its requests if the National Labor Relations Board drops its nationwide remedy bid.
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August 06, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday announced for a running mate in the 2024 election a person with a progressive labor and employment record, one that could signal how a future presidential administration could treat those issues, attorneys said. Here, Law360 explores Walz’s employment law record.