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June 11, 2024
A Phoenix cannabis dispensary asked the D.C. Circuit to reverse a National Labor Relations Board order compelling the company to recognize a United Food and Commercial Workers local, saying the board shouldn't have certified the union because of an issue with the election notice.
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June 11, 2024
Former International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 98 business manager John Dougherty has asked a Pennsylvania federal judge to postpone his sentencing for his bribery and embezzlement convictions, pointing to the possibility of the government retrying him on extortion charges following an April mistrial in that case.
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June 11, 2024
United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain and other union leaders are under investigation over allegations of retaliation and financial misconduct, an independent monitor has detailed in a report, saying the union has "slow-rolled" access to documents for the probe.
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June 11, 2024
Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP has hired as a partner for its employment law practice an attorney with prior private practice experience who has also worked for multiple companies and a labor union during her more than 20-year career.
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June 11, 2024
An arbitrator reasonably found that a Missouri ready-mix concrete supplier violated its contract with a Teamsters local when it began releasing drivers from duty for the day without respect for their level of seniority, the union argued, encouraging a Missouri federal judge to preserve the arbitration award.
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June 10, 2024
A UPS subsidiary is fighting a National Labor Relations Board decision over a Teamsters local's certification at the Ninth Circuit, alleging that the union's misconduct amid a representation election unfairly influenced the vote.
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June 10, 2024
The U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday that a pension provider for workers in graphic communications has paid back more than $8 million in excess funds it received through a financial assistance program administered by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.
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June 10, 2024
A recent Second Circuit order reviving the National Labor Relations Board's bid to block Starbucks from committing alleged labor law violations in New York boosted employers' power to seek discovery in labor injunction cases, even as it knocked a district judge for letting Starbucks pry into a union campaign.
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June 10, 2024
A group of union-represented Southern California hospitality workers who say they're getting charged much higher health insurance rates than their counterparts in Las Vegas are seeking class certification in their lawsuit challenging the rates, according to a filing in Illinois federal court.
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June 10, 2024
Regional offices of the National Labor Relations Board "were not consistently complying" with procedures for mail-ballot elections, an agency watchdog report found, highlighting lapses in documenting details of elections conducted by mail and a lack of internal controls tailored to mail ballots.
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June 10, 2024
Starbucks violated federal labor law multiple times at cafes near Phoenix where union organizing efforts with Workers United were brewing, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, recommending an order to make the coffee chain post a video recording of a reading notice about employees' rights.
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June 10, 2024
A Texas federal judge has vacated an arbitration award ordering a chemical and ammunition manufacturer to rehire an employee who it accused of lying about receiving confidential information from a union steward, finding the award didn't draw its essence from the union contract.
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June 10, 2024
An experienced labor and employment attorney has jumped from Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC to Cozen O'Connor, continuing recent growth in the firm's New York office.
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June 10, 2024
A New Jersey federal judge rejected UPS' request to toss claims that the delivery company should pay warehouse workers for the time they spent undergoing security screenings before their shifts started, court records show.
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June 07, 2024
An Ohio state appeals court said five public school employees cannot hash out their claims over unauthorized union dues deductions in court because they draw from a collective bargaining agreement and therefore must be handled administratively.
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June 07, 2024
An Illinois federal judge declined to narrow a prior order letting Starbucks subpoena workers to boost its defense against a National Labor Relations Board injunction bid, saying a recent Second Circuit decision faulting the scope of a discovery grant in another Starbucks case doesn't apply.
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June 07, 2024
A hotel workers union urged a New York federal court to force a former operator of a shuttered Marriott hotel in Manhattan to pay $6 million in severance pay stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, saying an arbitrator's award in the union's favor must be enforced.
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June 07, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board's offer to pause an in-house suit against SpaceX is "merely a ploy" to stave off a Fifth Circuit decision backing the company's challenge to the agency's constitutionality, the rocket maker told a Texas federal judge.
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June 07, 2024
In finding Friday that an order for several in-house Southwest Airlines attorneys to undergo "religious liberty training" should be permanently placed on hold while an appeal of a flight attendant's Title VII trial win is pending, the Fifth Circuit said the district court had likely exceeded "the scope of the court's civil-contempt authority."
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June 07, 2024
An Arizona electric car manufacturer quashed a nascent union organizing campaign by monitoring two leaders of the drive and then firing them when they persisted, National Labor Relations Board prosecutors claimed in a lawsuit that asks a federal judge to order the company to rehire the workers.
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June 07, 2024
Cozen O'Connor brought on a veteran employment lawyer from Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott LLC in Boston, who comes with experience working in the public sector that he said allows him to help companies navigate any type of employment suit that comes their way.
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June 07, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for the potential initial sign-off on a more than $3.6 million deal to resolve a proposed wage and hour class action against freight carrier Oak Harbor Freight Lines Inc. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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June 07, 2024
The Labor Management Relations Act doesn't preempt a driver's suit accusing two cold storage companies of wage and breaks violations, a California federal judge ruled, sending the case back to state court.
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June 06, 2024
The National Football League isn't to blame for a former football player's head trauma, the league told a South Carolina federal judge, arguing federal labor law preempts a negligence claim from a representative of the ex-player's estate.
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June 06, 2024
The Major League Baseball Players Association told a Puerto Rico federal judge that the sports agency linked to music superstar Bad Bunny has grossly overstated the impact it had on the business, arguing it is the agency's actions, not the association's "unreasonable sanctions," that caused injury.