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August 25, 2026
The longtime National Labor Relations Board official who recently served as acting general counsel for about a year will take up the role of chief counsel to the board's newest member.
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August 25, 2026
Four unions have filed a lawsuit in California federal court challenging two recent rules issued by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management that they allege reshape the disciplinary process and performance reviews for federal workers, claiming the rules conflict with long-standing legal protections and exceed the agency's authority.
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August 25, 2026
The union representing six employees who were laid off by a New York meat distributor has asked the D.C. Circuit to enforce a National Labor Relations Board order, saying the board correctly ordered the company to reinstate the workers with back pay and compensation for layoff-related expenses.
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August 25, 2026
Vedder has added a seasoned employee benefits and executive compensation partner from Winston Taylor LLP to join its practice as a new shareholder in Chicago, where she will advise clients on a wide range of retirement, health and welfare benefits issues, the firm announced Tuesday.
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August 24, 2026
National Labor Relations Board prosecutors urged a New York federal judge Monday to hold a housing nonprofit and its attorney in contempt of a rare injunction ordering them to deal with a union, accusing them of defying the court by continuing to stonewall negotiations.
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August 24, 2026
The U.S. Department of Agriculture urged a California federal court to toss a suit by federal workers and their labor union accusing the agency's secretary of sending "proselytizing" religious emails to employees, arguing the messages align with the "history and tradition" of public officials making references to religion.
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August 24, 2026
A former Port of Baltimore employee unnecessarily included his union in his recent court challenge to his December firing, the United Food & Commercial Workers local that represented him told a Maryland federal judge, asking her to drop the union as a defendant.
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August 24, 2026
A Texas federal judge stopped Southwest Airlines Co. from snooping through an employee's social media posts about religion or abortion after the employee won a religious bias suit, issuing a court order blocking the airline from using future posts for disciplinary action.
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August 24, 2026
A Michigan federal judge on Monday upheld an arbitration award finding that an energy company did not violate its collective bargaining agreement with a power plant workers' union when it made changes to its seniority system, finding that the award was based on a reasonable interpretation of the contract.
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August 24, 2026
The Washington Post was ordered to rehire an opinion columnist it fired for social media posts she made in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination, the columnist's union said Monday, after an arbitrator faulted the newspaper's "rushed" decision to let her go.
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August 21, 2026
A Minnesota commercial bakery didn't violate an arbitration award when it imposed a new sick-time policy that its workers' union claimed was essentially a rewording of the policy invalidated by the arbitrator, a Minnesota federal judge ruled Friday, saying the arbitrator lacked jurisdiction to strike down the new policy.
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August 21, 2026
An Ohio health system has been hit with a proposed class action over its contractual restraints that a union health plan alleges prevent cheaper insurance providers from gaining a foothold in the market.
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August 21, 2026
A labor union has sued the Internal Revenue Service over its recent directive suspending its approval of advanced annual or sick leave requests, telling a DC federal court the directive is arbitrary and capricious and the agency's CEO was not lawfully appointed to his position when the directive was issued.
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August 21, 2026
A janitorial firm violated the National Labor Relations Act when it fired a group of employees for picketing, the D.C. Circuit ruled Friday, upholding the National Labor Relations Board's 2024 ruling in the 12-year-old case.
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August 21, 2026
This week, a New York federal judge will consider Target's bid to dismiss a proposed class action brought by warehouse employees who claim the company must compensate them for the time they spend walking to and from their departments before and after their shifts. Here, Law360 looks at this and other cases on the docket in the Empire State.
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August 21, 2026
Patrick Moran has been elected as the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees International president, the union announced in a news release.
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August 21, 2026
In the week ahead, attorneys should watch for Ninth Circuit arguments in a challenge by unions and other groups to the federal government's mass layoffs of probationary employees. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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August 20, 2026
The full Ninth Circuit Thursday backed the National Labor Relations Board's decision in a union battle for work on a Seattle marine cargo terminal, ruling the International Longshore and Warehouse Union can't use the "work-preservation defense" to defeat accusations that it illegally pressured an employer for disputed work.
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August 20, 2026
The former treasurer of a federal workers' union local has agreed to plead guilty to embezzling more than $60,000 to pay for expenses ranging from food and utility bills to dance lessons, the U.S. attorney's office in Massachusetts announced Thursday.
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August 20, 2026
A National Labor Relations Board official has rejected a petition for a union representation election at a New York juvenile detention facility operator, finding that the company showed the workers in the proposed unit are supervisors who are ineligible to unionize.
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August 20, 2026
A Colorado federal judge dismissed a county board of commissioners' complaint Thursday for lack of standing after finding that the county sought prospective relief only from a state law expanding county employees' right to unionize and that the county failed to allege any potential injury.
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August 20, 2026
A Washington federal judge has narrowed a carpenter apprentice's amended complaint alleging that a Seattle construction company shorted employees on wages for off-the-clock work, ruling that the claims involving missed rest and meal breaks were preempted by federal law.
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August 20, 2026
California's Monterey Bay Aquarium asked the National Labor Relations Board on Thursday to reverse a regional official's decision to delay processing a petition to decertify a union representing its workers, saying the union's own conduct undermined the case that the election should be blocked.
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August 20, 2026
A military communications contractor violated federal labor law by unlawfully withdrawing recognition from a Teamsters unit, a National Labor Relations Board judge held, finding that the company aided in the decertification effort by promising an employee a new work schedule if he collected signatures to oust the union.
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August 19, 2026
The National Labor Relations Board on Wednesday rejected Starbucks' appeal of an order denying a board prosecutor's bid to withdraw claims that the company unlawfully changed its policies without bargaining with Starbucks Workers United, finding the company failed to show the judge exceeded her authority in issuing the decision.