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August 13, 2025
A recent memo by the National Labor Relations Board's acting general counsel instructing prosecutors to carefully consider when to defer cases to contractual arbitration processes could lead to more disputes being channeled away from the board, following in line with his other efforts to reduce agency workload, experts said.
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August 13, 2025
The Eleventh Circuit revived a duty of fair representation suit from members of an International Longshoremen's Association affiliate Wednesday, finding those members plausibly alleged that the local engaged in nepotism by giving hiring priority to union leaders' family and friends.
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August 13, 2025
The D.C. Circuit denied a request by immigrant rights groups to halt a policy requiring noncitizens to register with the federal government or face prosecution, while denying the Trump administration's bid to dismiss the groups' appeal.
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August 13, 2025
GE Appliances lawfully disciplined and terminated a probationary employee who complained about the company's overtime policy, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, finding the worker's actions were not protected under federal labor law.
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August 13, 2025
The Seventh Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a white Chicago city worker's suit claiming she was suspended three times by her Black boss out of racial discrimination, saying she hadn't rebutted the city's argument that performance issues, not prejudice, got her disciplined.
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August 12, 2025
Republic Services requested an injunction to halt a Teamsters local from blocking access to the waste collection company's property around Boston and physically assaulting workers during a strike, claiming local police departments are not taking steps to stop unlawful conduct.
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August 12, 2025
Two unions, a humanitarian aid nonprofit and a contractors association have asked the D.C. Circuit to revive their attempts to stop the Trump administration from dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development, challenging a judge's conclusion that their claims belong before expert agencies rather than in court.
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August 12, 2025
SAG-AFTRA Health Plan members who said their sensitive personal and medical information was compromised following a September data breach told a California federal judge Tuesday that they have reached a settlement in principle to resolve the proposed class action accusing the plan of lacking adequate security measures to stop the event.Â
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August 12, 2025
A split Fourth Circuit panel vacated a block Tuesday on the Department of Government Efficiency's access to personal information held by three federal agencies, prescribing an exacting appraisal of the challenging unions' chances of winning all aspects of the case.
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August 12, 2025
The Seventh Circuit should overturn an Illinois federal judge's order for a Teamsters pension fund to recalculate a concrete company's debt, the fund argued, saying the fund's original finding that the company owed roughly $23 million was correct.
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August 12, 2025
George Washington University Hospital called on the full D.C. Circuit to reconsider a panel decision enforcing the National Labor Relations Board's determinations that the hospital bargained in bad faith, arguing the panel's judgment conflicted with precedent from the appeals court and the U.S. Supreme Court.
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August 12, 2025
A Knoxville, Tennessee, water purification company violated federal labor law by removing signs that the Tennessee Pipe Trades Association put up along the road near its facility during an organizing drive, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled.
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August 11, 2025
Starbucks violated federal labor law by telling workers their wages would "essentially be frozen" during contract talks, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled Monday, while determining the company lawfully commented about the possibility of negotiations lasting more than a year.
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August 11, 2025
A divided Fourth Circuit panel has given a union member another shot at accusing the International Association of Machinists'Â president and secretary-treasurer of misusing IAM funds on personal travel, saying Monday that she took the necessary steps to raise the matter internally before filing suit.
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August 11, 2025
Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern's bold plan to create the nation's first transcontinental railroad owned by a single firm would transform freight transportation in the U.S., but it must first clear a heightened standard for reviewing mega rail mergers that hasn't yet been tested since the standard was set 24 years ago.
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August 11, 2025
The Eighth Circuit on Monday revived a First Amendment challenge to a Minnesota school district policy that allows teachers to take paid leave to work for their union, saying the district spending public funds on benefits for teachers engaged in political actions gave residents standing to sue as taxpayers.
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August 11, 2025
A construction company failed to fully comply with the Sixth Circuit's enforcement of a National Labor Relations Board order involving a union's request for compensation details nearly five years ago, the board said, calling for fines tied to violations of the appeals court's ruling.
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August 11, 2025
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has canceled its collective bargaining agreements in line with President Donald Trump's directive to dozens of agencies to stop recognizing their workers' unions, which he said was to protect national security.
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August 11, 2025
Drivers with a commercial license may vote on whether they want an International Union of Operating Engineers local to represent them, a National Labor Relations Board regional director determined, blocking an industrial cleaning company's attempt to expand the proposed bargaining unit.
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August 08, 2025
A California federal court must grant class certification to truck drivers at a construction materials company that allegedly underpaid workers by rounding on time cards, a former employee argued, saying the workers did not receive accurate wage statements.
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August 08, 2025
Workers in the oncology clinic at an Optum-run cancer center in Everett, Washington, can vote on representation by a United Food and Commercial Workers local this month, a National Labor Relations Board official has held.
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August 08, 2025
This week, a New York federal judge will consider whether to order a homeless shelter operator to bargain with a Service Employees International Union affiliate over allegations that the nonprofit refused to bargain with the union and threatened workers over their union activity. Here, Law360 looks at this and other cases on the docket in New York.
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August 08, 2025
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for Ninth Circuit oral arguments in Amazon's challenge to the constitutionality of the National Labor Relations Board's structure. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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August 08, 2025
A California federal magistrate judge called for claims to be cut from a hotel operator's lawsuit accusing two unions of unlawfully interfering with a SeaWorld development project in San Diego, finding many allegations aren't relevant to a remaining secondary boycott claim.
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August 08, 2025
An Illinois federal judge should greenlight a $100 million settlement to claims that Walgreens overcharged insured customers for generic prescription drugs, the plaintiffs' attorneys said, asking the judge to wrap up the 8-year-old consumer protection litigation.