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March 05, 2024
Men's basketball players at Dartmouth College voted for unionization with a Service Employees International Union local, according to a National Labor Relations Board tally Tuesday, while the university said it is "unprecedented" to deem these players employees.
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March 05, 2024
SpaceX's challenge to the constitutionality of the National Labor Relations Board's structure should play out in California, a majority Fifth Circuit panel ruled Tuesday, denying the company's bid to station the lawsuit where it was originally filed in Texas but refraining from issuing a mandate.
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March 05, 2024
The City of New York cannot escape claims that it discriminatorily favors its mostly white staff of firefighters over its mostly non-white emergency medical workers, as a federal judge held that the two categories of workers were arguably similar.
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March 05, 2024
The average time between a charge being filed with the National Labor Relations Board and prosecutors deciding whether to bring a case based on its allegations rose to 124 days last fiscal year, according to new data from general counsel Jennifer Abruzzo.
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March 05, 2024
Shell must face the United Steelworkers' attempt to compel it to promptly rehire a union-represented worker who was fired for posting a meme the company considered racist, with a Washington federal judge preserving the union's bid to enforce an arbitrator's reinstatement award and tossing the oil giant's dismissal bid.
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March 05, 2024
A Delaware district court wrongly supported an arbitration award denying reinstatement of a worker who was found to be intoxicated from alcohol during his shift at a plastics manufacturer, a Teamsters local told the Third Circuit, saying the arbitrator didn't base his decision on the company's stated reason for termination.
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March 04, 2024
A former International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers employee who admitted to shopping with union funds while serving as a "gofer" for convicted ex-business manager John Dougherty was sentenced to three years of probation on Monday in Pennsylvania federal court.
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March 04, 2024
A Kansas federal judge should decide whether Yellow Corp.'s $137 million lawsuit against the Teamsters can survive the union's dismissal bid before making the union produce more documents, the Teamsters said, looking to pause the discovery process in litigation accusing the union of holding up a corporate restructuring.
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March 04, 2024
A United Auto Workers affiliate is aiming to represent more than 3,000 non-tenure-track lecturers, researchers and other workers at Harvard University, the union announced Monday, highlighting concerns over job security and pay.
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March 04, 2024
A Third Circuit panel on Monday reversed a National Labor Relations Board ruling that a nonprofit nudged workers to rebuke their union before withdrawing recognition, with one member going on to question limits on courts' power to review board rulings.
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March 04, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board has asked the D.C. Circuit to continue adjudicating Google's challenge to the unionization of its subsidiary YouTube Music, urging the court to reject the company's bid to transfer the case to the Fifth Circuit.
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March 04, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board should face sanctions for claiming an International Union of Operating Engineers affiliate hadn't challenged the lawfulness of a punch-in policy for strike replacements, the union contended to the Seventh Circuit, saying the local raised arguments on this point during the agency proceeding.
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March 01, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board's deputy prosecutor on Friday detailed how the agency's rewrite of its joint employer standard is intertwined with other issues related to who is considered an employee under federal labor law, saying the board is responding to the "real world" effects of complex business structures.
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March 01, 2024
The D.C. Circuit found Friday that a rehabilitation facility was within its rights under federal labor law to distribute flyers during a union drive, departing from the National Labor Relations Board's conclusion that the handouts were part of an illegal surveillance violation.
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March 01, 2024
Dartmouth College urged the National Labor Relations Board to hold off on a scheduled union vote among its men's basketball players, saying an agency official grossly misapplied federal law and ignored precedent in allowing the election to proceed.
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March 01, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for oral arguments at the California Supreme Court in a case dealing with the standard for penalties for "knowing and intentional" wage statement violations. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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March 01, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board correctly found that an automotive parts manufacturer stalled and improperly withdrew recognition from a United Auto Workers local after union certification, the D.C. Circuit ruled Friday, denying the company's request to challenge the ruling and granting the board's bid to enforce it.
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March 01, 2024
Starbucks violated federal labor law by disciplining a pro-union worker at an Alabama store for a comment that was a "joke amongst [LGBTQ] friends," a National Labor Relations Board judge determined, ordering the coffee chain to reinstate the employee who was later fired.
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March 01, 2024
Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP, now known as GRSM50, is bolstering its employment team, bringing in a trial attorney, with his own firm, adept at class actions as a partner in its San Diego office.
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February 29, 2024
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other employer groups urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a Sixth Circuit decision over the rehire of seven fired Starbucks workers in Memphis, Tennessee, telling the nine justices to do away with a "watered-down" injunction test.
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February 29, 2024
Starbucks' dress code is not illegal on its face to the extent that it bars workers from wearing union T-shirts, but the company violated federal labor law by more strictly enforcing its piercing limits after workers at a Tallahassee, Florida, store struck, a National Labor Relations Board judge said Thursday.
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February 29, 2024
The aftereffects of the National Labor Relations Board's landmark decision to upend its process for union representation elections are still being felt months later, with attorneys for unions and employers debating how to proceed with the decision in mind Thursday at an American Bar Association conference.
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February 29, 2024
Former Philadelphia union leader John "Johnny Doc" Dougherty on Thursday successfully petitioned to delay his upcoming extortion trial to give his defense attorneys more time to prepare on the heels of his embezzlement conviction last year.
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February 29, 2024
Bankrupt Yellow Freight Corp. has secured an extra 90 days to hold onto the wheel of its Chapter 11 case in Delaware, after citing both the complexity of its case and the "tremendous" progress in selling off its assets.
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February 29, 2024
Starbucks violated federal labor law by firing a union backer for clocking out after an emotional exchange with her boss but not by writing another supporter up over his testy attitude toward a visiting manager, a National Labor Relations Board judge said.