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June 20, 2024
A Ninth Circuit panel on Thursday supported a lower court's decision to make Marathon Petroleum arbitrate a union's grievance over subcontracting under a project labor agreement, saying the company can't use its role as an owner in the accord to avoid arbitration.
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June 20, 2024
Honda violated federal labor law by telling employees to remove United Auto Workers stickers from their safety helmets and committed other unfair labor practices, National Labor Relations Board prosecutors alleged in an unfair labor practice complaint.
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June 20, 2024
A recent National Labor Relations Board judge's decision finding a noncompete agreement that employees were required to sign violated federal labor law should bolster the board general counsel's effort to declare such employment provisions unlawful, experts said.
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June 20, 2024
A California federal court dismissed on Thursday National Labor Relations Board prosecutors' bids to enforce subpoenas requesting a list of casino employees who could be in a proposed bargaining unit from a tribe and a gambling company, with agency attorneys saying the parties settled the dispute.
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June 20, 2024
Employment firm FordHarrison LLP announced that it hired a pair of experienced attorneys as partners in its offices in Nashville, Tennessee, and Berkeley Heights, New Jersey.
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June 20, 2024
Two entertainment and advertising partners have left Reed Smith LLP to join DLA Piper, including the first woman to serve as the chief negotiator for the Joint Policy Committee, the bargaining representative for the advertising industry in negotiations for the multibillion-dollar commercials collective bargaining agreements with SAG-AFTRA and the American Federation of Musicians.
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June 18, 2024
Amazon constructively discharged a worker involved in organizing a walkout among employees at its Seattle headquarters over a return-to-office policy, according to a complaint filed by National Labor Relations Board prosecutors, who are seeking an apology letter and a nationwide notice posting from the e-commerce giant.
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June 18, 2024
A National Labor Relations Board official can't fight subpoenas that Starbucks issued to employees during an injunction dispute between the company and the agency, a South Carolina federal judge ruled Tuesday, saying the workers aren't parties to the court proceedings and the official can't argue on their behalf.
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June 18, 2024
A Michigan hospital violated federal labor law by causing a supervisor to resign after pressuring her to surrender a photo of a list of possible union supporters, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, finding that an exception to the law's usual exclusion of supervisors applied.
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June 18, 2024
Labor and employment firm Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC has hired from Quarles & Brady LLP a new shareholder for its San Diego office who has more than a decade of experience.
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June 18, 2024
Workers at the only unionized Amazon warehouse in the U.S. have voted to fold their independent outfit into the Teamsters, the transportation and logistics union announced Tuesday.
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June 18, 2024
A low-cost airline based in the Salt Lake City area lost its challenge to a union representation as the Tenth Circuit ruled that a Utah federal judge correctly dismissed the case.
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June 18, 2024
The U.S. Treasury Department released final labor rules Tuesday for clean energy projects seeking to significantly boost the value of their tax credits, emphasizing due diligence by developers and announcing that more IRS resources will go toward enforcement of the rules.
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June 17, 2024
A Las Vegas casino rolled out an improved healthcare and retirement package and threatened workers with job and benefits losses in order to thwart a union campaign, the National Labor Relations Board ruled Monday, ordering the company to bargain with the union.
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June 17, 2024
A Teamsters healthcare benefits plan and a Connecticut public transit provider have sued the healthcare network Hartford Healthcare Corp., accusing it of having a monopoly over healthcare in a half-dozen regions of the state.
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June 17, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board said Monday that a tape maker illegally punished two workers for mouthing off to a boss amid a safety disagreement, reversing an agency judge's decision in an application of the board's shifting approach to protections for worker outbursts.
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June 17, 2024
Shell Oil and HF Sinclair have settled a dispute over which company is responsible for back pay to a worker who was fired after posting a meme that was found not to be grounds for termination, following the United Steelworkers' bid for enforcement of an arbitration award.
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June 17, 2024
The Sixth Circuit revived a Black former General Motors employee's lawsuit Monday alleging he was denied a raise, demoted and suspended because of his race and post-traumatic stress disorder, ruling a lower court was wrong to say federal labor law preempted his bias claims.
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June 17, 2024
An Arizona solar company has beaten back a worker's accusation that he was unlawfully fired for discussing wages with co-workers, with the National Labor Relations Board ruling that the worker actually resigned after he was denied a raise.
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June 17, 2024
Starbucks lawfully fired a union supporter who made a negative remark about a customer, a National Labor Relations Board judge concluded while also finding the company did violate federal labor law by telling the worker that they weren't thinking about their family when backing the union.
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June 14, 2024
Seventeen Republican attorneys general requested a pause on the effective date for the U.S. Department of Labor's final rule covering foreign farmworkers within the H-2A visa program, telling the court that the rule provides protections that U.S. citizen agricultural workers lack under federal labor law.
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June 14, 2024
Starbucks violated federal labor law when it fired a worker for leading a protest at a recently unionized Augusta, Georgia, cafe, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled Friday, adding Starbucks also flouted labor law by demanding the worker show the company his communications with Workers United.
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June 14, 2024
The AFL-CIO and Service Employees International Union have urged the National Labor Relations Board to walk back its 2020 joint employer rule and return to deciding when two linked entities jointly employ the same workers through case adjudication rather than formal rulemaking.
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June 14, 2024
A New York City-based Teamsters local asked the Second Circuit to unwind a 1998 consent order instructing the union to stop unlawful strike activity, saying the order is unnecessary after more than a quarter-century of "spotless compliance" by the union.
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June 14, 2024
Starbucks unlawfully slashed scheduled work hours for shift supervisors at a Pennsylvania store without giving a Teamsters local the chance to bargain, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, saying the company didn't show that it had a past practice of cutting these hours.