The National Labor Relations Board on Tuesday denied requests that it rethink a decision from last year that was served on the parties after the expiration of former board Chairman Lauren McFerran's term, saying a vote about the order happened on or before McFerran's Dec. 16 departure date.
Thousands of former federal workers are facing compromised paths to fighting the Trump administration's initiatives to cull their ranks, with courts turning away efforts to challenge the firings and rerouting the disputes to the Federal Labor Relations Authority and the Merit Systems Protection Board.
National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox's reinstatement Thursday via district court order restores a quorum allowing the agency to operate, but an appeal looms as President Donald Trump tests his control over the executive branch. Here, Law360 looks at this and other takeaways from Wilcox's win.
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The National Labor Relations Board on Tuesday denied requests that it rethink a decision from last year that was served on the parties after the expiration of former board Chairman Lauren McFerran's term, saying a vote about the order happened on or before McFerran's Dec. 16 departure date.
Thousands of former federal workers are facing compromised paths to fighting the Trump administration's initiatives to cull their ranks, with courts turning away efforts to challenge the firings and rerouting the disputes to the Federal Labor Relations Authority and the Merit Systems Protection Board.
National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox's reinstatement Thursday via district court order restores a quorum allowing the agency to operate, but an appeal looms as President Donald Trump tests his control over the executive branch. Here, Law360 looks at this and other takeaways from Wilcox's win.
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March 11, 2025
A Consumer Financial Protection Bureau employee recounted before a D.C. federal judge on Tuesday a frantic effort to fire 1,200 agency staffers before a court order halted it, saying the prospect of first securing congressional approval was never mentioned.
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March 11, 2025
Former officers of the union representing American Airlines flight attendants escaped the union's allegations that they breached their fiduciary duties after an arbitrator found they misappropriated union funds, a Texas federal judge has ruled, with the district court finding the allegations weren't filed in a timely manner.
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March 11, 2025
The Second Circuit upheld a win for a union benefit fund Tuesday in a medical practice's suit alleging it was owed reimbursements for COVID-19 testing from a union employee health benefit plan, finding a lower court properly tossed the complaint for failure to exhaust administrative remedies.
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March 11, 2025
A Teamsters unit in Texas violated federal labor law by prioritizing union members in its hiring hall referral process over nonunion members, a National Labor Relations Board judge concluded, while also dinging the local for delaying the referrals of two union dissidents for work on a film production.
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March 11, 2025
The president appears to have the power to remove the feds' internal unfair firing watchdog because he's the sole head of an agency with executive power, a D.C. Circuit panel said, explaining its decision last week to stay a trial court's reinstatement order.
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March 10, 2025
U.S. District Judge William Alsup on Monday denied the Trump administration's request to vacate an upcoming evidentiary hearing into the U.S. Office of Personnel Management's mass firings of probationary federal employees, and required OPM director Charles Ezell to appear in person or else be deposed.
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March 10, 2025
Starbucks illegally fired a Workers United supporter in North Carolina for striking and refused to hire another employee given their union activities, a National Labor Relations Board judge concluded Monday, saying the coffee chain can't ask workers to get a manager's blessing before exercising their organizing rights.
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March 10, 2025
The sports firm of music superstar Bad Bunny has reached a settlement that will end its dispute with the Major League Baseball Players Association, which it had accused in a Puerto Rico federal court lawsuit of killing its business with unreasonable sanctions.
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March 10, 2025
The U.S. Senate confirmed President Donald Trump's nominee for labor secretary Monday evening, with support from more than a dozen Democrats and opposition from some members of the nominee's own party.
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March 10, 2025
The AFL-CIO and a group of unions sought to keep alive their claims that Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency can't legally access data from the U.S. Department of Labor and other federal agencies, telling a D.C. federal judge they have standing to file their suit.
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March 10, 2025
The Trump administration asked the D.C. Circuit on Monday to stay a federal judge's order reinstating fired National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox, saying the order steps on the president's authority to control the workings of the executive branch.
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March 10, 2025
Macy's asked the Ninth Circuit to reconsider its split opinion upholding the National Labor Relations Board's expanded remedies against the department store chain for illegally locking out union workers, saying the ruling "creates a textbook circuit split" on the board's Thryv decision.
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March 07, 2025
Recent batches of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau internal emails hint at early, fumbling efforts to bring parts of the agency back online, but whether these flickers of life will undercut an employee union's fight to keep the agency intact remains to be seen.
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March 07, 2025
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced Friday that it will no longer recognize the union that represents Transportation Security Administration officers, a move the union called retaliation for its recent federal worker advocacy and the AFL-CIO called "ripped from the pages of Project 2025."
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March 07, 2025
A divided D.C. Circuit panel greenlighted on Friday enforcement of a National Labor Relations Board decision dinging an Oregon distillery for illegally imposing a final offer without reaching an impasse in contract talks with a Teamsters affiliate, with a dissenting judge saying the union used delay tactics.
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March 07, 2025
Ninth Circuit judges on Friday questioned a federal judge's decision to toss Trader Joe's trademark suit against a union selling merchandise with the grocers' name, with one saying it was "a little bit unusual" to have a determination about the likelihood of confusion decided at the motion to dismiss stage.
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March 07, 2025
Nearly two dozen Democratic attorneys general have backed the National Labor Relations Board in a Sixth Circuit fight over the agency's ability to adjudicate unfair labor practice cases, saying workers' rights under labor law would be trampled if the agency is restrained from performing its duties.
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March 07, 2025
A former MGM Grand Detroit casino worker who was fired for refusing to get a COVID-19 vaccination has asked a judge to award attorney fees and pre- and post-judgment interest on top of a Detroit jury's $133,000 verdict in his favor.
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March 07, 2025
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for the potential stay of a judgment pending an appeal in a vaccine mandate case against San Francisco's rapid transit agency. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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March 07, 2025
This week, the Second Circuit will consider whether to revive a lawsuit from former officers for a New York Girl Scouts chapter who claim they were retaliated and discriminated against after they complained that the group misused pandemic government loans. Here, Law360 looks at this and another notable case on the docket in New York courts.
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March 07, 2025
Workers covered under a labor contract with a Service Employees International Union affiliate on the West Coast must arbitrate the wage and hour claims they filed in state court against Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. and a related operations entity, the entertainment company alleged in California federal court.
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March 07, 2025
A D.C. federal judge on Friday declined to wall off access to the federal government's payment systems from employees of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency during a lawsuit brought by retirees and union groups, determining the alleged privacy risks were not enough to warrant the court's intervention.
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March 06, 2025
Federal workers who lost their jobs in the Trump administration's mid-February purge of the civil service have begun challenging their terminations through class action appeals to an administrative court, seeking the reinstatement of tens of thousands of probationary employees to about 20 federal agencies.
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March 06, 2025
The head of the U.S. Office of Special Counsel ended his fight against his firing by President Donald Trump, informing the D.C. Circuit on Thursday that he wouldn't pursue his battle to lead the agency one day after the appeals court permitted his removal.
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March 06, 2025
Attorneys for unions and consumers who struck a $100 million settlement of Walgreens prescription overcharge fee claims asked an Illinois federal judge for a $30 million cut of that pot, arguing the amount would pay for seven years of meaningful work they put into the case.