The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service has significantly reduced its operations in response to an executive order from President Donald Trump directing certain agencies to cut down on their duties and staff, a move that experts and advocates said could make securing mediators in labor disputes harder.
The Trump administration responded to an injunction compelling it to rehire over 15,000 fired probationary employees by placing them on leave, not bringing them back to work, a coalition of advocates for the workers told a California federal judge Wednesday, saying the administration hasn't complied with the injunction.
U.S. District Judge William Alsup said Monday he has jurisdiction to hear claims from public-sector unions over the mass firing of probationary employees within the federal government, flipping from his position last month and splitting from federal courts that have held the claims must be processed through governing labor agencies.
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The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service has significantly reduced its operations in response to an executive order from President Donald Trump directing certain agencies to cut down on their duties and staff, a move that experts and advocates said could make securing mediators in labor disputes harder.
The Trump administration responded to an injunction compelling it to rehire over 15,000 fired probationary employees by placing them on leave, not bringing them back to work, a coalition of advocates for the workers told a California federal judge Wednesday, saying the administration hasn't complied with the injunction.
U.S. District Judge William Alsup said Monday he has jurisdiction to hear claims from public-sector unions over the mass firing of probationary employees within the federal government, flipping from his position last month and splitting from federal courts that have held the claims must be processed through governing labor agencies.
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March 27, 2025
President Donald Trump on Thursday issued an executive order ending collective bargaining with unions representing workers at a number of agencies "with national security missions," saying that allowing the workers to bargain is "dangerous" in agencies with such responsibilities.
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March 27, 2025
The White House laid out reasoning Thursday for asking the D.C. Circuit to bless President Donald Trump's firing of two Merit Systems Protection Board and National Labor Relations Board members, saying their reinstatement by lower courts interfered with executive authority and saddled Trump with officials "who lack his trust."
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March 27, 2025
A National Labor Relations Board judge has approved a $225,000 settlement in a case accusing a nonprofit immigration legal services agency of illegally discharging an attorney, bringing an end to a year-old challenge to the lawyer's December 2023 firing.
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March 27, 2025
The National Labor Relations Board tossed on Thursday an allegation that Starbucks violated federal labor law by not negotiating with Workers United over the discipline of a worker, declining to shift precedent on an employer's bargaining obligation with a union that hasn't notched a first contract.
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March 27, 2025
The Fifth Circuit must not enforce a National Labor Relations Board decision dinging Starbucks for unlawful subpoenas that sought employees' recordings of management and communications with Workers United, the coffee giant argued, challenging the board's application of 30-year-old precedent about discovery.
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March 27, 2025
A Teamsters pension fund can go after a bankrupt dairy business's affiliates for the $39 million that the business owes the fund under the terms of a settlement, the Third Circuit ruled Thursday, saying the fund has a viable cause of action under the Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendments Act.
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March 27, 2025
A fan-maker is seeking for the second time to halt an upcoming unfair labor practice proceeding, telling a Missouri federal judge that the administrative case should be put on hold until the U.S. Supreme Court has considered whether NLRB member Gwynne Wilcox's firing was illegal.
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March 27, 2025
The National Labor Relations Board urged the Fifth Circuit not to grant a union's bid to throw out suits SpaceX and two other companies launched challenging the board's constitutionality, saying the dispute remains live even if the Trump administration's views change an aspect of the litigation.
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March 27, 2025
A split Ninth Circuit panel has refused to block an injunction compelling the Trump administration to reinstate about 16,000 probationary employees to six federal agencies, saying the administration will likely lose its argument that the agencies weren't acting on an order from above when they fired the workers.
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March 26, 2025
A New Mexico federal court on Wednesday sustained some claims from a former vice president for an International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees affiliate who said he was wrongly disciplined after raising concerns about another officer's name appearing on porn websites, while dismissing other allegations under federal racketeering and state laws.
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March 26, 2025
The American Postal Workers Union doomed its lawsuit seeking to compel the U.S. Postal Service to comply with an arbitration award by also trying to force compliance through the arbitration mechanism in their collective bargaining agreement, a Washington, D.C., federal judge ruled, saying he now lacks jurisdiction.
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March 26, 2025
As the U.S. Department of Labor leadership takes shape under President Donald Trump and proceeds on wage and hour and other policy priorities, former officials say the new top brass should listen to career staffers and keep enforcement actions fair. Here is what the former officials told Law360.
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March 26, 2025
Former federal workers asked an employment board Wednesday to reinstate them to jobs they lost because of President Donald Trump's executive orders shuttering all government diversity, equity and inclusion positions, stating the firings illegally targeted their assumed political beliefs and fell disproportionately hard on workers who weren't white men.
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March 26, 2025
A Delaware bankruptcy judge agreed Wednesday to delay his decision on $6 billion of contested claims in Yellow Corp.'s Chapter 11 after attorneys for the defunct trucking group said they reached a plan settlement.
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March 26, 2025
International Brotherhood of Teamsters has come out against President Donald Trump's choice of a Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP attorney to be the next National Labor Relations Board general counsel, splitting with the White House on a key labor nominee.
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March 26, 2025
Google and Cognizant are cleared of allegations that the companies illegally surveilled union activities and committed other unfair labor practices, a National Labor Relations Board's regional director in Texas concluded, finding inadequate evidence to prove federal labor law violations.
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March 26, 2025
The National Labor Relations Board properly found that a gas supplier violated federal labor law by withholding a raise from a group of unionizing Southern California employees in 2018, board prosecutors told the Ninth Circuit, asking the appellate court to enforce the ruling.
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March 26, 2025
Healthcare company Kaiser Permanente miscalculated workers' overtime by leaving out rates for extra days of work and holidays, according to a proposed class action filed in Colorado state court.
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March 25, 2025
A Sixth Circuit panel on Tuesday said it wouldn't rethink its ruling that a Michigan construction trade group lacks standing to challenge the constitutionality of a memo from the National Labor Relations Board former general counsel regarding employers' anti-union meetings.
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March 25, 2025
A divided Tenth Circuit panel concluded Tuesday that an arbitrator went beyond his powers when finding salaried employees at an HF Sinclair facility in Wyoming must be part of a bargaining unit represented by the United Steelworkers, saying the issue was not brought to arbitration by either party.
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March 25, 2025
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration urged the Eleventh Circuit Tuesday to ignore a Georgia roofing contractor's claims that it can't be on the hook for a $158,000 fine under the agency's "capricious" multiemployer citation rule, alleging the company's counsel told it to avoid being caught on the work site to dodge liability.
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March 25, 2025
A Michigan federal judge has slashed a union and claimants' lawsuit alleging the state's unemployment insurance agency improperly automatically denied or clawed back payments, finding that temporary COVID-19 pandemic assistance benefits are not constitutionally protected rights and the claimants received proper notice of an end to their benefits.
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March 25, 2025
The federal government should restore the nearly $400 million it revoked from Columbia University earlier this month, two unions told a New York federal court Tuesday, also seeking a declaration that threats to pull additional funding if the university doesn't meet certain demands violate the U.S. Constitution.
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March 25, 2025
An Amalgamated Transit Union affiliate can't amend certification for a group of workers at a Maryland transportation company, a National Labor Relations Board official concluded, finding the issues raised in the case should be handled in a different proceeding.
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March 25, 2025
Hartford HealthCare Corp. says it cannot be forced to reveal a confidential January antitrust settlement with another Connecticut hospital at the behest of a Teamsters health plan and a public transit agency separately accusing the consortium of creating a monopoly.