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  1. February 22, 2024

    NY Judge Halts State Ag Law's Anti-Union Speech Restriction

    A New York federal judge paused enforcement of a section of a state agricultural labor law that would make it an unfair labor practice to discourage unionization, saying claims from a farming group that the provision violates the First Amendment have a chance of success.

  2. February 16, 2024

    Union Can't Intervene In Fight Over NY Farm Laborers Law

    The United Farm Workers can't intervene in a case over a state law covering protections for agricultural workers, a New York federal judge ruled Friday, saying the union's interests in organizing and upholding the statute won't be harmed.

  3. February 16, 2024

    NY Forecast: 2nd Circ. Hears Xerox Healthcare Union Case

    In the coming week, the Second Circuit will consider a union's argument to overturn a lower court decision holding that a union could not arbitrate a grievance over Xerox's decision to end health benefits for retired workers. Here, Law360 explores this and another major labor and employment case on the docket in New York.

  4. February 12, 2024

    Farmworkers Union Fights Bid To Stop NY Ag Law

    The United Farm Workers urged a New York federal judge to let the union intervene in a dispute over a state law covering protections for agriculture workers, arguing an agricultural organization and family-run farms made claims that implicated the union in their suit to block the law's enforcement.

  5. October 03, 2023

    NY Ag. Group, Farms Sue State Over Farmworker Rights Law

    An agricultural organization and family-run farms in New York sued state Gov. Kathy Hochul and other government officials Monday, challenging a law granting workplace protections and organizing rights to agriculture workers, saying employers have been stripped of meaningful labor union rights.