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October 29, 2023
United Auto Workers lead negotiators reached a tentative agreement Saturday with Stellantis NV, the second of Detroit's Big Three automakers to iron out a new labor contract, which still needs to be approved by members following a seven-week strike.
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October 27, 2023
The United States has asked Mexico to examine whether workers at that country's Caterpillar Inc. subsidiary are denied the right to freedom of association and collective bargaining, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai said.
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October 27, 2023
A California federal judge should not have nixed an arbitration award requiring a San Jose hospital to pay into two union-represented employees' pensions, the Ninth Circuit ruled Friday, reversing the decision with instructions to confirm the award.
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October 27, 2023
A musicians union and the production company behind NBC reality television show "The Voice" informed a California federal court Friday that they reached a settlement of claims that the company underpaid music preparation personnel.
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October 27, 2023
A Hawaii federal judge declined to toss a sheet metal union's lawsuit attempting to push a professional association into arbitration to resolve a deadlocked vote on the use of training funds, rejecting the association's arguments that contract language allows it to skirt an out-of-court resolution.
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October 27, 2023
The latest strike involving frontline medical workers — this one at a Burbank, California hospital — concluded Friday without an agreement on wages, staffing levels or other issues, as a union bargaining committee member indicated another work stoppage is on the table.
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October 27, 2023
The National Labor Relations Board may soon raise the stakes for employers that deny jobs to so-called salts after a judge teed up a case in which prosecutors aim to make it tougher for employers to escape bias claims when they reject open or suspected union operatives.
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October 27, 2023
A New York federal judge sided with the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. in a lawsuit from trustees of a pension fund for union bakery drivers seeking $130 million in financial assistance from a massive pension rescue program Congress passed in 2021, finding the PBGC's denial wasn't erroneous.
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October 27, 2023
A union representing almost 75,000 federal employees intends to appeal a district judge's ruling that it lacks standing to challenge the constitutionality of the U.S. debt limit law, according to a Thursday filing.
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October 27, 2023
A Georgia manufacturer unlawfully refused to hire three workers who were organizers for a pipefitters union, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, in a case that could be a vehicle to make it harder for employers to defeat accusations of hiring discrimination against so-called union salts.
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October 27, 2023
Shell Oil asked a Washington federal judge to toss the United Steelworkers' bid to enforce a rehire order for a worker fired after posting a meme that management deemed offensive, saying it's too early for court enforcement because back pay is still being worked out with the arbitrator.
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October 27, 2023
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for the potential final approval of a $3 million settlement in a wage and hour class action by more than 1,000 medical interpreters. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in the state.
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October 27, 2023
The National Labor Relations Board tossed an Alaskan military contractor's allegations that a union used a benefits lawsuit to pressure the company to assign work to its members, saying the suit cannot be definitively attributed to the union because it was filed by a union benefits fund's trustees.
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October 27, 2023
The Second Circuit this week will consider a Black former New York City transit police officer's lawsuit claiming he was discriminated against on the basis of his race when he was disciplined for overtime violations and eventually fired. Here, Law360 explores this and other major labor and employment cases on the docket in New York.
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October 27, 2023
This week's Off the Bench features Baylor University facing accountability, an NHL player put in the penalty box for sports betting and the NCAA striking out on stopping the NLRB's quest on behalf of college athletes. If you were sidelined this week, Law360 breaks down all the sports and betting stories that had our readers buzzing.
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October 26, 2023
The National Labor Relations Board's revision Thursday to its test for deciding whether linked entities are joint employers under federal labor law represents a major shift from the rule it replaces and is bound to bring a bevy of legal challenges by business groups. Here, Law360 looks at these and other takeaways from the board's latest joint employer rule.
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October 26, 2023
The Georgia Ports Authority supported its South Carolina counterpart Thursday by urging the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Fourth Circuit ruling allowing a dockworkers' union to sue shippers for using a partially nonunion state-run port, saying the ruling runs afoul of laws prohibiting so-called secondary boycotts.
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October 26, 2023
Workers United can't intervene in National Labor Relations Board prosecutors' bid for a federal court injunction that would compel Starbucks to rehire about 33 workers in Seattle, a Washington federal judge ruled Thursday, holding that the prosecutors will adequately represent the union's interests.
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October 26, 2023
Former International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 98 business manager John Dougherty asked a Philadelphia federal judge to order a third delay for his November embezzlement trial, arguing his counsel is buried under the case's "voluminous" discovery and starting on the scheduled date would deny him proper preparation.
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October 26, 2023
UPS and a Teamsters local defeated a former package handler's suit claiming he was fired because he's Pacific Islander and asked for time off after he injured his knee, with a Florida federal judge ruling Thursday that he raised his allegations too late.
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October 26, 2023
A New York City mental health care center violated federal labor law when it refused to execute a union contract because its board of directors didn't approve of the agreement, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, saying board approval wasn't a precondition for contract execution.
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October 26, 2023
The Third Circuit on Thursday upheld the dismissal of a former brakeman's proposed collective action claiming Union Railroad Co. targeted older workers with "last chance" agreements to make them easier to get rid of, finding his allegations were too flimsy to stay in court.
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October 26, 2023
The National Labor Relations Board issued a hotly anticipated rule Thursday making it easier for employees of franchisees and staffing agencies to show that the franchisor or user firm under which they serve is their joint employer and force them to the bargaining table.
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October 25, 2023
The operator of a New Jersey rehabilitation center shouldn't face fines for the National Labor Relations Board's claims that the company didn't comply with a Third Circuit judgment, a federal magistrate judge recommended Wednesday, but she found that the operator should pay agency attorney fees.
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October 25, 2023
Lead negotiators for the United Auto Workers reached a tentative agreement late Wednesday with Ford Motor Co. on a new labor contract that would end the six-week strike at one of Detroit's Big Three automakers if members vote to approve the deal.