April 13, 2021
The Seventh Circuit tossed an equipment rental company's challenge to a Wisconsin federal judge's order requiring it to rehire workers it laid off after their facility unionized, saying a recent National Labor Relations Board decision made the dispute moot.
January 22, 2021
A Seventh Circuit panel on Friday probed a lower court injunction that ordered Sunbelt Rentals to rehire laid-off unionized workers as part of a dispute with the National Labor Relations Board, with one judge questioning whether the board overstated the company's misconduct.
October 29, 2020
The National Labor Relations Board is urging a Seventh Circuit panel not to lift a district court order making Sunbelt Rentals rehire and bargain with employees it canned after they formed a union, citing the company's "egregious" campaign to suppress its workers' labor rights.