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May 26, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday turned down a Teamsters retiree's bid for review of the dismissal of his proposed class action alleging that union multiemployer plan trustees and advisers allowed risky investments and hefty plan management fees, leaving in place a Second Circuit decision from November.
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May 22, 2026
This past year, 10 lawyers across the country at plaintiffs' firms big and small helped secure millions of dollars in settlements and verdicts for their clients, going up against powerful defendants like Google, Monsanto and the Trump administration, earning the attorneys recognition as Law360's Titans of the Plaintiffs Bar for 2026.
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May 22, 2026
First Student Inc. on Friday dropped its lawsuit seeking to prevent a Teamsters local from participating in a threatened nationwide strike, putting an end to the case almost two months after the union and the school bus operator struck a deal halting the strike shortly before it was expected to proceed.
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May 22, 2026
The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee advanced a $580 billion five-year surface transportation reauthorization bill on Friday to fund roads, bridges, transit and rail improvement projects, and highway and motor carrier safety programs, and establish the first-ever federal regulatory framework for autonomous commercial vehicles.
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May 22, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court's recent holding that multiemployer plan actuaries can retroactively change the assumptions used to calculate employers' withdrawal liability could increase the price tag for pulling out of those pension plans, attorneys say.
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May 22, 2026
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters has asked an Oklahoma federal court to toss a lawsuit claiming that a former employee for a local branch of the union was stiffed on overtime and severance pay, arguing that the suit falls short in stating a claim against the international union.
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May 22, 2026
The National Labor Relations Board has backed an agency judge's order forcing an Illinois sprinkler installer to read to employees a notice of its federal labor law violations, ruling that the company's actions in response to a union organizing campaign justified the "extraordinary remedies."
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May 22, 2026
A nursing home operator has urged a Minnesota federal judge to vacate an arbitrator's order to restore a bonus program and repay workers, saying the arbitrator overreached by deciding a different issue than the union grieved.
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May 22, 2026
In the week ahead, the Second Circuit will consider Thompson Hine LLP's challenge to an order keeping a former partner's discrimination suit in federal court instead of sending it to arbitration. Here, Law360 looks at this and other cases on the docket in New York.
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May 22, 2026
In the week ahead, attorneys should watch for a motion hearing in a discrimination collective action that job applicants are bringing against Workday Inc. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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May 21, 2026
House leadership's decision to pull legislation that would have effectively barred college athletes from unionizing highlights the uncertain state of organizing efforts, even as advocates say the conditions that led to union interest in the first place persist.
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May 21, 2026
A D.C. federal judge tossed a challenge to the United Food and Commercial Workers' method of allocating convention delegates Thursday, saying the system complies with federal labor law and the members can challenge it at the convention if they want to change it.
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May 21, 2026
Seventh Circuit judges sounded unwilling Thursday to disturb an arbitrator's finding that a Chicago hotel failed to employ union-represented workers during its use as a migrant shelter, suggesting the hotel took issue with interpretations of key words the arbitrator appropriately drew from the underlying collective bargaining agreement.
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May 21, 2026
A federal judge in Manhattan declined Thursday to order the Wimbledon and French Open tennis tournaments to grant access to representatives from a players group, after the group claimed its representatives are being denied access in retaliation for its antitrust lawsuit.
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May 21, 2026
The U.S. House of Representatives may soon consider a measure that would set deadlines for employers to reach union contracts after a push to force a vote secured majority support.
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May 21, 2026
An Eleventh Circuit panel appeared puzzled Thursday by Black union pipe fitters' claims that they were passed over for work assignments in favor of white counterparts, expressing confusion about what legal framework they believed an Alabama federal judge should have used.
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May 21, 2026
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday issued what his office called a "first-in-the-nation" executive order aiming to shore up state labor policies in an effort to prepare workers and businesses in the event of mass workforce disruption caused by artificial intelligence.
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May 21, 2026
A New York federal judge has given an initial green light to a settlement between United Parcel Service and Teamsters Local 804 members who accused the shipping giant of unlawfully deducting hundreds of dollars from their paychecks, finding the nearly $87,000 deal falls within the range of reasonableness.
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May 21, 2026
Kroger's Texas unit must compensate a United Food & Commercial Workers local for the dues that it failed to collect from a group of union-represented employees in the South between 2020 and 2022, the National Labor Relations Board ruled, though one member questioned the fairness of the order.
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May 21, 2026
A National Labor Relations Board panel partly granted a Texas immigration advocacy organization's request to review a decision that allowed some attorneys and legal assistants to remain in a voluntarily recognized bargaining unit, to reconsider whether they are supervisors.
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May 21, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that multiemployer pension plan actuaries can retroactively change assumptions underlying their withdrawal liability calculations, rejecting employers' argument for time restrictions on the methodology underpinning penalties for pulling out of a pension fund.
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May 20, 2026
AT&T California breached a settlement in a closed case through its delayed response to an information request made by a Communications Workers of America local, the National Labor Relations Board has ruled, with board member Scott Mayer "reluctantly" concurring based on precedent he "vehemently disagrees" with.
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May 20, 2026
Starbucks urged the National Labor Relations Board to reject Workers United's bid to withdraw a challenge to a local official's decision denying a decertification election, asking the board to instead use the dispute to rethink its practice of tossing decertification petitions after finding merit to allegations of labor violations.
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May 20, 2026
A New Jersey federal judge has no grounds to compel an International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers local to pay out a former union officer for unused vacation time, the union argued, asking the judge to toss the former officer's lawsuit.
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May 20, 2026
An addiction treatment center urged a National Labor Relations Board judge to toss claims that it included two employees in a layoff because of their efforts to organize with an American Federal of Teachers affiliate, arguing that the workers were selected because of performance issues.