The Fifth Circuit will hear arguments Wednesday in a leading challenge to the National Labor Relations Board's structure, a key test of the agency's constitutionality that could end up before the U.S. Supreme Court.
President Donald Trump has directed federal agency heads to shelve union contracts covering their workers that were executed in the 30 days before he took office, calling such "last-minute" contracts "designed to circumvent the will of the people and our democracy."
President Donald Trump continued his shakeup of leadership at the National Labor Relations Board by firing acting general counsel Jessica Rutter, an agency spokesperson confirmed Monday.
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The Fifth Circuit will hear arguments Wednesday in a leading challenge to the National Labor Relations Board's structure, a key test of the agency's constitutionality that could end up before the U.S. Supreme Court.
President Donald Trump has directed federal agency heads to shelve union contracts covering their workers that were executed in the 30 days before he took office, calling such "last-minute" contracts "designed to circumvent the will of the people and our democracy."
President Donald Trump continued his shakeup of leadership at the National Labor Relations Board by firing acting general counsel Jessica Rutter, an agency spokesperson confirmed Monday.
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February 04, 2025
Unions representing federal employees slammed the Trump administration's "deferred resignation" offer in a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday in Massachusetts, saying the "Fork in the Road" directive is an unlawful pretext for replacing government workers based on their ideology.
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February 04, 2025
The nephew of a now-imprisoned former leader of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 98 received a nonincarceratory sentence in Philadelphia federal court Tuesday after admitting that he tried to violently extort a casino contractor out of undeserved pay.
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February 04, 2025
A Teamsters local violated federal labor law when a union steward threatened to take things outside after a worker questioned the union's negotiating strategy, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled Tuesday, saying the remarks could lead employees to think they may face retaliation for speaking up.
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February 04, 2025
The union representing National Labor Relations Board field staff said Tuesday its members won't take up the president's government-wide resignation offer, deriding it as a highly dubious scam.
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February 04, 2025
The Fifth Circuit upended on Tuesday a ruling that blocked an executive order increasing the minimum wage for federal contractors to $15 per hour, saying former President Joe Biden acted within his authority when he put forward the regulation because it was intended to promote economy and efficiency.
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February 04, 2025
An internet service provider in Montana challenged an NLRB decision finding the company must hand over requested information about non-bargaining unit workers to an International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers affiliate, telling the D.C. Circuit that the union and agency prosecutors "engaged in a disingenuous game of Gotcha."
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February 04, 2025
National Labor Relations Board attorneys told the Fifth Circuit that they won't defend NLRB members' firing protections at a Feb. 5 hearing on the agency's constitutionality in the wake of the president's removal of a board member and appointment of a new acting prosecutor.
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February 04, 2025
Incisive questions from a talkative D.C. Circuit panel Tuesday indicated the court is leaning toward reinstating two Black workers' lawsuits alleging a union's phased rollout of its COVID-19 vaccination requirements unlawfully favored white employees.
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February 04, 2025
An insulation manufacturer challenged a suit from the United Steelworkers to make the business comply with an arbitration award that requires it to stop having workers do two jobs at the same time, telling an Ohio federal judge that the union hasn't exhausted the grievance process on this issue.
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February 03, 2025
Members of a Fifth Circuit panel appeared split Monday about whether to once again uphold a National Labor Relations Board decision letting its acting prosecutor pull a pending suit in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision last year to scale back courts' deference to federal agencies.
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February 03, 2025
An Alaska federal judge decided Monday not to rethink the court's conclusions that airline employees can go to arbitration without a union, blocking a reconsideration bid from the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and one of its locals.
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February 03, 2025
Proponents of a renewed push to bring so-called right-to-work legislation to New Hampshire are hopeful that the measure will succeed after years of falling short, potentially bringing the policy into new territory and pushing back against recent high-profile defeats.
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February 03, 2025
President Donald Trump appointed the director of the National Labor Relations Board's Los Angeles office as the agency's acting general counsel Monday, allowing William Cowen to occupy the seat left vacant by the ousters of Biden-era general counsel Jennifer Abruzzo and the most recent acting general counsel, Jessica Rutter.
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February 03, 2025
Two professional hockey players unions are affiliating with the AFL-CIO and joining its Sports Council, the labor federation announced Monday.
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February 03, 2025
Top Senate Democrats on Monday railed against access granted to Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency that allowed the outfit's employees to tap into the U.S. Department of Treasury's federal payment system over the weekend.
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February 03, 2025
Illinois would create an income tax deduction for union dues for taxpayers who weren't allowed a deduction under federal law as part of a bill filed in the state House of Representatives.
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February 03, 2025
The Seventh Circuit has ruled that the Teamsters' challenge to prehire employment agreements with two airlines providing for incentive payments to newly hired pilots must be resolved in arbitration rather than federal court, saying the airlines did enough to show that the incentives are justified by the collective bargaining agreements.
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February 03, 2025
The D.C. Circuit must enforce the National Labor Relations Board's decision concluding that a Las Vegas casino continually violated federal labor law during an organizing campaign of hospitality workers, the board said, arguing precedent supports its issuance of a Cemex bargaining order.
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February 03, 2025
Former acting Labor Secretary Julie Su will join the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics as a spring 2025 fellow, the university announced.
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February 03, 2025
A proposed class action accusing Kroger Co. and Albertsons of brokering an illegal no-poach agreement that hurt wage negotiations during a strike in Colorado is back in state court, after a grocery store worker dropped a federal court lawsuit and refiled her claims in Denver District Court.
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February 03, 2025
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is probing the Trump administration's removal of several Democratic officials from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and National Labor Relations Board, saying he's concerned the unwarranted firings have left the agencies unable to function.
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January 31, 2025
The NCAA has reached a settlement with a coalition of states, led by Tennessee and Virginia, that's been challenging its ban on name, image and likeness compensation for student athletes being recruited by institutions, according to a notice filed Friday in Tennessee federal court, exactly one year after the suit was filed.
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January 31, 2025
A union may not take over representing a group of Service Employees International Union-represented workers at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey, a National Labor Relations Board official held Friday, rejecting the union's argument that a union security clause in the SEIU local's contract was invalid.
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January 31, 2025
The en banc Eleventh Circuit will consider whether federal anti-discrimination law bars a Georgia county health plan from refusing to cover a worker's gender-confirmation surgery while the Second Circuit will hear from an NBA referee defending his win in a pension payout case.
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January 31, 2025
A case about broadband subsidies will give the U.S. Supreme Court the chance to revive a long-dormant separation of powers principle that attorneys say could upend regulations in numerous industries and trigger a power shift that would make last term's shake-up of federal agency authority pale in comparison. And a majority of the court already appears to support its resurrection.