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July 10, 2024
Republican leaders of major congressional committees Wednesday demanded details from dozens of agencies on policies suddenly shrouded in uncertainty after U.S. Supreme Court conservatives overturned the so-called Chevron doctrine, which for 40 years gave regulators flexibility in rulemaking and advantages in related litigation.
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July 10, 2024
A Texas federal judge on Wednesday blocked a National Labor Relations Board suit accusing SpaceX of suppressing workers' rights while he weighs the rocket maker's claims that the prosecution is unconstitutional, according to a docket notice.
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July 10, 2024
An Arizona federal judge cleared an electric car manufacturer to move forward with the discovery process in an injunction dispute with the National Labor Relations Board, holding that the company can request some but not all of its workers' communications with union representatives.
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July 10, 2024
Starbucks fought an agency judge's ruling over the termination of a union supporter in Michigan with claims that the National Labor Relations Board's structure violates the U.S. Constitution, challenging removal protections for board members and administrative law judges.
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July 10, 2024
The Third Circuit on Wednesday issued a rare opinion declining to enforce a union's arbitration win, saying a Teamsters unit waited too long to challenge a cemetery operator's read of their new contract's raise language.
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July 10, 2024
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette violated federal labor law by pursuing proposals in contract negotiations that would tread on its advertising department workers' rights, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, issuing a bargaining order against the newspaper.
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July 10, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board must reconsider its decision changing the analysis of whether worker outbursts are protected under federal labor law, the Fifth Circuit ruled, finding the board violated a company's due process rights by not hearing its arguments prior to the precedent shift.
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July 10, 2024
One of two security and law enforcement unions embroiled in defamation suits in Michigan federal court has informed the court that it has filed for bankruptcy in Pennsylvania, pausing the claims against it a week before trial.
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July 10, 2024
Keurig Dr. Pepper has been accused in Illinois state court of sending mass anti-union text messages to the personal cellphone numbers of its factory workers, in violation of their privacy.
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July 10, 2024
A Delaware bankruptcy judge said Wednesday he would schedule a hearing in August to resolve competing motions for summary judgment on Yellow Corp.'s objection to several pension plans' claims for more than $6 billion in retirement-fund withdrawal liability.
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July 09, 2024
The Sixth Circuit on Tuesday refused to revive a putative class action by Kalitta Air pilots who were fired over their refusal to get the COVID-19 vaccine, finding that the Railway Labor Act precludes the court from hearing their failure-to-accommodate and disability discrimination claims, which must be resolved through arbitration instead.
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July 09, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board ordered Trader Joe's on Tuesday to rehire a worker who was fired after raising concerns about COVID-19 safety, benefits and other issues, affirming a judge's ruling that the company acted to rid itself of a "squeaky wheel" and not because co-workers complained about her.
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July 09, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board must explain why it applied one legal test over another when analyzing whether a union representation election at a Chicago cannabis dispensary was fair, the D.C. Circuit said Tuesday, sending the dispensary's challenge to union certification back to the board.
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July 09, 2024
An arbitration award that required a California tribe to comply with a union authorization card check process at a casino should be nixed, the tribe has told a federal judge, arguing a tribal ordinance mapping out a procedure for a secret ballot election must be followed instead.
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July 09, 2024
An electric car manufacturer is overreaching by soliciting communications between a union and its workers in an injunction dispute with a National Labor Relations Board official, the agency told an Arizona federal judge, asking her to deny the company's request for third-party document production.
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July 09, 2024
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Tuesday rejected a claim by former Philadelphia union leader and convicted felon John "Johnny Doc" Dougherty that his Ballard Spahr LLP defense team marred its representation of him in a bribery prosecution because of a conflict of interest with Comcast.
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July 09, 2024
The Ninth Circuit correctly enforced a National Labor Relations Board decision ordering a hotel to rehire more than 100 union-represented workers, the agency told the U.S. Supreme Court, asking it to uphold the ruling and reject the hotel's challenge to the evidence standard for proving anti-union animus.
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July 09, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor has argued that it has had the authority to regulate labor protections for foreign H-2A farmworkers for about 40 years, telling a Georgia federal court that 17 Republican attorneys general and two entities cannot halt a rule that just went into effect.
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July 09, 2024
After a busy month of expansion, management-side labor and employment firm Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC announced Monday that it is welcoming a shareholder back to the firm following his in-house stint with wholesale grocery distributor UNFI.
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July 08, 2024
The court-appointed monitor overseeing the United Auto Workers' compliance with a 2021 consent decree that resolved a corruption probe told a Michigan federal judge Monday that the union cannot withhold certain documents from him, saying the consent decree doesn't entitle the union to confidentiality.
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July 08, 2024
The National Education Association locked out employees represented by a staff union Monday after workers were on the picket line for three days during an annual meeting of the national organization.
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July 08, 2024
A Massachusetts appeals panel kept a trial court's decision tossing two school nurses' suit claiming unpaid meal breaks, saying the duo was paid for the breaks they spent while remaining on school grounds.
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July 08, 2024
An Ohio federal judge properly dismissed a fired white female prison guard's claim that her union failed to fight as hard for her reinstatement as it did for the Black male guard fired alongside her, the union told the Sixth Circuit, saying her claims lack merit.
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July 08, 2024
Cozen O'Connor expanded its Pittsburgh office this week with the addition of an attorney with nearly two decades of experience in labor and employment law, who moved his practice after more than five years with K&L Gates LLP.
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July 08, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board rightly found that a hospital in Puerto Rico violated federal labor law by unilaterally slashing workers' hours, the D.C. Circuit ruled, saying the hospital can't excuse its actions with claims about financial effects from the pandemic.