Workers at Mercedes-Benz manufacturing facilities outside Tuscaloosa, Alabama, have voted against representation by the United Auto Workers, an early setback for the union as it seeks to organize nonunion automakers in the United States.
The National Labor Relations Board has more than two dozen ripe issues on its docket, including the legality of so-called captive audience meetings, workers’ rights to use company email and chat systems, and compensation for workers whose bosses delay union negotiations. Here, Law360 looks at these and other issues the board could soon decide.
A Massachusetts federal judge has ordered a cannabis company to bargain with the United Food and Commercial Workers in the first application of the National Labor Relations Board’s Cemex standard to an injunction case. Here, Law360 explores takeaways from the novel decision.
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Workers at Mercedes-Benz manufacturing facilities outside Tuscaloosa, Alabama, have voted against representation by the United Auto Workers, an early setback for the union as it seeks to organize nonunion automakers in the United States.
The National Labor Relations Board has more than two dozen ripe issues on its docket, including the legality of so-called captive audience meetings, workers’ rights to use company email and chat systems, and compensation for workers whose bosses delay union negotiations. Here, Law360 looks at these and other issues the board could soon decide.
A Massachusetts federal judge has ordered a cannabis company to bargain with the United Food and Commercial Workers in the first application of the National Labor Relations Board’s Cemex standard to an injunction case. Here, Law360 explores takeaways from the novel decision.
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May 17, 2024
The University of California system is accusing the union that represents its graduate student workers of calling for an illegal strike over the university system's pushback to pro-Palestine campus protests, filing an unfair labor practice charge Friday.
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May 17, 2024
A Teamsters local accused a steel manufacturer of not abiding by an arbitration award that required the reinstatement of a fired employee, urging a Michigan federal judge to make the company cough up back pay and attorney fees.
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May 17, 2024
The United Auto Workers and Fiat Chrysler told an Ohio federal judge Friday that a recent Sixth Circuit decision nullifies a racketeering lawsuit from plant workers trying to tie their claims of lost wages and benefits to an illicit bribery scheme involving former union and company officials.
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May 17, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board ordered a Hawaii spa to rehire a worker after the company failed to contest a claim that it fired her for talking to co-workers about their pay.
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May 17, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board restored a loss for an International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers local in a representation election at a company in Washington state, saying an NLRB official's decision to erase the loss after finding merit to unfair labor practice allegations doesn't comply with board procedure.
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May 17, 2024
In the year since the U.S. Supreme Court said "extraordinary" and "far-reaching" attacks on administrative enforcers can skip agency tribunals and go straight to federal district court, ambitious challenges to regulatory powers are rapidly gaining traction, and the high court is poised to put them on an even firmer footing.
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May 17, 2024
A Texas federal judge won't reconsider his decision to transfer SpaceX's constitutional challenge to the National Labor Relations Board's structure to a California court, saying on Friday that the rocket company didn't give a "compelling reason" to rethink the ruling.
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May 17, 2024
In the coming week, the Second Circuit will hear a former New York University hospital doctor's bid to revive his suit claiming the hospital discriminated against him on the basis of his disability by denying him work accommodations before firing him. Here, Law360 explores this and other cases on the docket in New York.
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May 17, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for California Supreme Court oral arguments regarding the validity of the Proposition 22 ballot measure from 2020. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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May 16, 2024
Rimas Sports, the sports agency of mega music superstar Bad Bunny, is suing the Major League Baseball Players Association in Puerto Rico federal court, saying the union effectively killed its business with unreasonable sanctions in order to protect its "good ole boy" club of established agencies.
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May 16, 2024
United Natural Foods Inc. delivery drivers in Pennsylvania may vote on whether they want a Teamsters local to represent them, a National Labor Relations Board regional director determined Thursday, while finding that J.B. Hunt is not a joint employer of these workers.
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May 16, 2024
A nonprofit food service company near Albany, New York, lawfully withdrew recognition from a Service Employee International Union local, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, finding the agency prosecutors hadn't shown that unfair labor practices and a decertification petition were linked.
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May 16, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board urged the full D.C. Circuit to reject an auto parts manufacturer's request to reconsider a March decision upholding the board's ruling that the company unlawfully withdrew recognition from a United Auto Workers local, saying the company is mistaken that the board's ruling altered precedent.
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May 16, 2024
A split National Labor Relations Board panel remanded a chicken processor's challenge of a representation election based on the claim that a union offered to waive initiation fees, with a dissenting board member finding a lack of evidence to support a hearing.
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May 15, 2024
The Second Circuit on Wednesday revived the National Labor Relations Board's suit seeking to halt Starbucks' alleged labor violations nationwide, finding that the lower court erred in tossing the suit for noncompliance with its "overbroad" discovery order granting the coffee chain's subpoenas seeking confidential union intel and workers' communications.
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May 15, 2024
Walmart illegally forbade a worker in Louisiana from talking about his discipline with other colleagues, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled Wednesday, telling the company to stop threatening employees who may discuss disciplinary meetings.
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May 15, 2024
A Welch's factory employee who was fired after being falsely accused of sexual harassment five years ago has waited long enough to be rehired, a Teamsters local argued in Pennsylvania federal court, urging a district judge to uphold an arbitrator's reinstatement order in accordance with a magistrate judge's recommendation.
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May 15, 2024
A U.S. Department of Justice attorney urged the Seventh Circuit on Wednesday to reject a union's bid to sanction National Labor Relations Board attorneys in a case over labor law violations at a quarry, saying the contention that the union waived a key argument doesn't warrant such an "extreme measure."
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May 15, 2024
A barge company urged an Alaska federal judge to stop International Longshore and Warehouse Union local affiliates from arbitrating over a work preservation dispute, telling the court that a prior arbitration award established an agreement that makes the company hire union members.
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May 14, 2024
Venable LLP is growing its presence by opening its first office in Colorado, with eight commercial and employment attorneys from Sherman & Howard LLP opening its Denver location, which will be headed by partner-in-charge James "Jim" Sawtelle, the firm announced Tuesday.
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May 14, 2024
While the United Auto Workers' recent contracts with Detroit automakers were key to organizing Volkswagen's Tennessee plant and securing a landmark election victory last month, experts said unique factors at Volkswagen will give the upcoming talks their own character.
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May 14, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board concluded Tuesday that an Illinois concrete producer violated federal labor law by putting manure near an area where an International Union of Operating Engineers local was picketing, granting agency attorneys' motion for default judgment.
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May 14, 2024
The Colorado Livestock Association doesn't have standing to challenge a state law that requires agricultural employers to give workers access to service providers, a state judge ruled, finding individual members of the group must take part in the proceeding.
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May 14, 2024
Surging union activity in the healthcare industry has reached a new front: employees of the nation's largest healthcare union.
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May 14, 2024
Kraft Heinz asked a Delaware federal judge Tuesday to step in and stop a Teamsters unit's healthcare grievance from going to arbitration, saying the union must use the dispute resolution process outlined in the company healthcare plan, not the grievance and arbitration process outlined in the union contract.