December 15, 2025
Two dozen labor law professors have joined California and the Teamsters in federal court to defend a state law expanding its labor board's powers, saying the National Labor Relations Act shouldn't preempt the law because circumstances have changed since the NLRA's broad preemption doctrine was established.
December 12, 2025
A California federal judge should follow his New York colleague's lead and hold that states likely cannot let their labor boards fill the National Labor Relations Board's shoes if the NLRB is faltering, the NLRB argued, saying "profound labor relations instability" could result if courts begin endorsing such laws.
December 05, 2025
The Teamsters have asked a California federal judge to preserve a state law that expanded the state labor board's power, telling the judge that the law can exist side by side with the National Labor Relations Act and that he should reject the National Labor Relations Board's bid to block it.
November 20, 2025
The National Labor Relations Board has asked a California federal judge to block a new state law allowing the state's labor board to perform NLRB functions when the federal agency lacks a quorum, saying the NLRB will be irreparably harmed if the law is allowed to take effect in 2026.
October 16, 2025
The National Labor Relations Board claimed that newly enacted legislation to expand California's state labor board's powers was preempted by the National Labor Relations Act, in a complaint filed in California federal court.