Cannabis businesses in some states are seeing a steady stream of union petitions as entrepreneurial unions target a fast-growing industry with favorable conditions for organizing.
A New York federal judge on Wednesday stood by an order making Starbucks Workers United turn over internal campaign communications to aid the company's defense against a National Labor Relations Board suit seeking to block the company from interfering with worker organizing.
A handful of recent union wins in the banking industry point to the potential for more organizing in the sector, but experts say the industry's limited experience with unions has created a legal minefield for both banks and workers looking to organize.
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Cannabis businesses in some states are seeing a steady stream of union petitions as entrepreneurial unions target a fast-growing industry with favorable conditions for organizing.
A New York federal judge on Wednesday stood by an order making Starbucks Workers United turn over internal campaign communications to aid the company's defense against a National Labor Relations Board suit seeking to block the company from interfering with worker organizing.
A handful of recent union wins in the banking industry point to the potential for more organizing in the sector, but experts say the industry's limited experience with unions has created a legal minefield for both banks and workers looking to organize.
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January 26, 2023
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette violated federal labor law by not bargaining in good faith with a union, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled Thursday, saying the newspaper must come back to the negotiating table after it presented unreasonable proposals and prematurely declared an impasse in contract talks.
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January 26, 2023
HarperCollins Publishers and a United Auto Workers affiliate said Thursday that the parties are taking their successive contract talks to federal mediation, following over a year of negotiations and the launch of the union's monthslong, ongoing strike.
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January 26, 2023
A Minnesota hospital network with a medevac service has asked a federal judge to disband its helicopter pilots' new union, saying the federal agency that authorized the representation election wrongly considers the network an air carrier governed by the Railway Labor Act.
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January 26, 2023
A Chicago teacher can continue litigating her discrimination claims against her former union, the city's Board of Education and a school administrator, an Illinois federal judge ruled, dismissing the union's bid to toss her amended suit.
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January 26, 2023
Hawkins Parnell & Young LLP announced Thursday that it has chosen one of its longtime partners to become chair of its labor and employment practice group.
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January 26, 2023
A Fourth Circuit panel Thursday appeared inclined to uphold a win for UPS in a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by a driver, indicating that it bought the delivery giant's arguments that the driver's request for a smaller truck wasn't a reasonable accommodation.
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January 25, 2023
The National Labor Relations Board mostly upheld an agency judge's conclusions Wednesday that a roofing company illegally refused to provide subsidiary contract documents to a Teamsters local, with one board member signaling an interest in reviewing the board's analysis for information requested related to nonbargaining unit workers.
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January 25, 2023
A rail workers union asked a Minnesota federal court Wednesday to declare that it doesn't have to maintain the status quo of its labor relationship with two Canadian Pacific Railway U.S. subsidiaries, claiming the carriers didn't confirm scheduled bargaining dates or request mediation.
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January 25, 2023
The union seeking to represent workers at YouTube Music has filed an unfair labor practice charge against Google parent company Alphabet, accusing it of disrupting union organizing with its new return to office policy.
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January 25, 2023
U.S. House Committee on Education and Workforce Chair Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, on Wednesday appointed 22 Republicans to the committee.
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January 25, 2023
A Laborers' International Union of North America affiliate supported NLRB prosecutors' attempt to restore a more than 70-year-old doctrine that made it easier for unions to organize, arguing in a brief accepted by the board Wednesday that agency data shows unfair labor practices "exploded" after the standard was abandoned.
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January 25, 2023
A New York nursing home operator should be fined $10,000 if it interferes with employees' right to collectively address workplace issues again, the National Labor Relations Board has told a New York federal judge.
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January 25, 2023
Employment and labor law firm Constangy Brooks Smith & Prophete LLP has named a longtime equity partner to lead its Macon, Georgia, office as managing partner.
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January 25, 2023
Miller & Martin PLLC promoted a corporate litigation attorney and a labor and employment attorney to the membership, the Tennessee-based firm announced.
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January 25, 2023
Harry D. Jones is preparing to lead Polsinelli PC's international labor and employment group with a philosophy that helping companies navigate work-related issues around the globe means connecting them to specialist attorneys with a nuanced understanding of how the law, business and culture intersect in different nations.
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January 24, 2023
The Communications Workers of America said Tuesday that it has withdrawn a petition for a representation election among 57 workers at a Boston unit of video game publisher Activision Blizzard due to an anti-union campaign.
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January 24, 2023
A health care workers union and National Labor Relations Board attorneys told the Third Circuit to uphold a board decision from last year requiring two hospitals to hand over certain documents about a sale, arguing the hospitals ignored the appeals court's prior ruling about the relevancy of the information.
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January 24, 2023
California-based Save Mart Supermarkets is seeking an end to claims that it unlawfully terminated benefits early for a proposed class of retirees and their spouses, saying it had always reserved the right to change or stop the $500 monthly contributions "at any time."
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January 24, 2023
A former Southwest Airlines flight attendant who claims she was fired for her anti-abortion views is fighting to preserve her win in court against the company, saying a Texas federal judge's decision to withhold certain information from the jury doesn't necessitate a new trial.
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January 24, 2023
A Teamsters local urged a Colorado federal judge to toss a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and a female UPS employee, saying the suit doesn't hold up since the worker has no employment relationship with the union.
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January 24, 2023
An Illinois teacher asked the Seventh Circuit to reconsider a panel decision rejecting her bid to recover paid union dues after she decided to opt out of the union, saying the appeals court's decision incorrectly applied the U.S. Supreme Court's Janus decision.
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January 24, 2023
A former Twitter worker lacked evidence to back his claim that the social media giant terminated him for engaging in protected activity, a National Labor Relations Board official concluded, saying federal labor law didn't protect his actions because he could have exposed the company to security breaches.
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January 24, 2023
The deRubertis Law Firm APC secured a $460 million jury verdict in June, representing the largest award in an employment case in the country, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Employment Groups of the Year.
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January 23, 2023
Two ex-UPS drivers urged the Fourth Circuit to revive their Fair Labor Standards Act overtime pay claims, arguing that a lower court erred in finding that a labor arbitrator's award precluded separate litigation.
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January 23, 2023
The president of a Building & Construction Trades Council local on Long Island urged the Second Circuit on Monday to reverse the dismissal of his $10 million lawsuit alleging a union's benefit funds illegally denied him retiree benefits, saying he should be allowed to engage in discovery.