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April 22, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday in a case that could make it tougher for the National Labor Relations Board to get rare injunctions to stop labor violations from trampling workers’ rights. Here, Law360 previews the arguments in Starbucks’ bid to unify the test the courts use to vet NLRB injunctions.
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April 22, 2024
A Connecticut federal judge on Monday threw out a suit against insurers Elevance Health Inc., Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield and many of their subsidiaries, but said the trustees of two union health plans who claimed the companies were overpaying administrative and medical costs can try again.
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April 22, 2024
A Hyatt hotel near Wall Street urged a New York federal judge to find that certain agreements with "indefinite" terms between a hotel workers union and a previous operator of the hotel can't be enforced, saying those accords aren't part of labor contracts with a hotel association.
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April 22, 2024
A Pennsylvania federal judge should dismiss a union's attempt to force a benefits fight with a nuclear power plant operator into arbitration, the operator argued Monday, saying the dispute isn't arbitrable under the terms of the collective bargaining agreement.
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April 22, 2024
The Michigan Supreme Court said Monday a public-sector union cannot charge nonmembers a fee to receive union support in filing a grievance, ruling that doing so violates the organization's duty to fairly represent all employees when the union is the sole representative for workers.
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April 22, 2024
A New Jersey mall cleaning company violated federal labor law by firing two workers after they met with union organizers, the National Labor Relations Board has ruled, upholding an agency judge's decision.
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April 22, 2024
SpaceX mounted another challenge to the constitutionality of the National Labor Relations Board's structure in Texas federal court, telling the judge to stop administrative proceedings over an unfair labor practice complaint alleging the company's severance agreement is unlawful.
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April 19, 2024
Workers at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, overwhelmingly voted to be represented by the United Auto Workers, giving the union its first victory in its campaign to organize nonunion automakers in the United States.
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April 19, 2024
A D.C. federal judge maintained a pause on the AFL-CIO's challenge to a 2020 National Labor Relations Board rule governing representation elections, saying the proceeding would be halted until the board deals with a proposed rollback to the regulation.
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April 19, 2024
A pension plan for union-represented Northern California metalworkers, the plan administrator and a law firm will pay roughly $2.5 million to end a proposed class action alleging about 30 early retirees weren't given the full benefits they were promised, according to paperwork filed Friday in California federal court.
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April 19, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court will return Monday for the term's final week of oral arguments, during which it will consider several high-stakes disputes, including whether a federal healthcare law can preempt state abortion bans and whether former President Donald Trump is entitled to immunity from criminal charges related to official acts.
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April 19, 2024
The official committee of unsecured creditors in Yellow Corp.'s Chapter 11 bankruptcy has largely backed an objection from the debtor to several pension plans' claims for retirement-fund withdrawal liability, while saying it hopes the issues can be resolved quickly to reduce costs.
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April 19, 2024
The United Food and Commercial Workers constitution's method for selecting delegates to its national convention unlawfully dilutes the voting power of members of larger locals while also limiting options for those belonging to smaller locals, members claim in a federal lawsuit filed Friday.
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April 19, 2024
The University of Notre Dame violated federal labor law through its classification of college athletes as student-athletes, a college basketball players advocacy group alleged in an unfair labor practice charge obtained by Law360 on Friday.
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April 19, 2024
Rich Reinis, a member of California's newly formed Fast Food Council, said he wants to keep fast food affordable, especially as industry workers now earn a $20 minimum wage. Here, Law360 speaks with Reinis about the council’s future.
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April 19, 2024
This week a New York federal judge will consider a school district's bid to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a Black former technology specialist who claims he was fired after facing discrimination on the job based on his race. Here, Law360 explores this and other cases on the docket in New York.
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April 19, 2024
A National Labor Relations Board official has dismissed a petition to decertify the United Steelworkers as the bargaining representative of workers at an Oregon industrial equipment manufacturer, saying pending unfair labor practice allegations against the company bar a decertification election until they're resolved.
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April 19, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for a potential ruling on whether a class of hotel banquet event workers can continue together with wage claims against San Francisco Hilton Inc., in a long-running case that paid a visit to the Ninth Circuit. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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April 18, 2024
A commissioner of an athletic conference for historically black colleges and universities testified Thursday in a hearing before a National Labor Relations Board judge that being forced to pay student-athletes a salary and treat them as employees would have a "severe impact" on those institutions.
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April 18, 2024
Thousands of workers at Mercedes-Benz plants in Alabama can vote next month on whether to unionize, the United Auto Workers announced Thursday as the union forges ahead with its organizing efforts at nonunion automakers.
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April 18, 2024
A Delaware bankruptcy judge said Thursday he would probably approve troubled trucking company Yellow Corp.'s bid to assume more than 70 leases, but told the debtor and its landlords he needed until Friday to make a final decision.
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April 18, 2024
The workers who play Disney characters at Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, are unionizing, Actors Equity Association announced Thursday, saying over 1,000 employees of the resort's characters and parades departments have signed union cards.
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April 18, 2024
A National Labor Relations Board official in Washington state tossed an election petition from an International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers local at a dishwasher maintenance company, saying agency prosecutors' request for a Cemex bargaining order prevents the vote from proceeding.
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April 18, 2024
A Michigan federal judge tossed litigation accusing Kellogg of shortchanging married retirees by relying on outdated life expectancies and interest rates when calculating their pension payments, agreeing with the company that the Employee Retirement Income Security Act doesn't require the data used to be reasonable.
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April 17, 2024
A Stanford University runner testified on Wednesday for the National Labor Relations Board that some student-athletes should be considered employees due to the control programs exert over them, and that a time he encountered a hotel curfew guard for a Division I basketball team highlights how tight that control can be.