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March 07, 2024
Over the past year, Julie Su has served as acting labor secretary while also awaiting Senate confirmation to continue leading the U.S. Department of Labor, despite Republican opposition. Su spoke with Law360 about her year as acting secretary, what’s next for the DOL and her prolonged Senate confirmation fight.
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March 07, 2024
A district court doesn't have jurisdiction over the Teamsters' challenge to prehire employment agreements with two airlines providing for incentive payments to newly hired pilots, an Indiana federal judge ruled, saying the parties' collective bargaining agreements arguably give the companies the right to issue the incentives.
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March 07, 2024
Workers represented by the North Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters may install shower door enclosures at a Boston project site, the National Labor Relations Board ruled, rejecting two International Union of Painters and Allied Trades affiliates' claims that the disputed work should go to their members.
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March 06, 2024
Eleven retirement funds urged a Delaware bankruptcy judge Wednesday to order Yellow Corp. to arbitrate their claims worth over $6 billion, arguing it would be efficient to take the dispute before a benefits plan expert, while the trucking firm insisted that arbitration would delay its ongoing Chapter 11 proceedings.
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March 06, 2024
Univar Solutions is challenging an Illinois federal court's holding that the company owes over $190,000 to a Teamsters pension fund due to an automatic extension of contract language, saying Wednesday that it is appealing the decision to the Seventh Circuit.
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March 06, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board on Wednesday upheld a ruling that a Los Angeles Starbucks threatened to withhold raises and interrogated a worker amid a union drive, but declined to order several heightened remedies, including a broad cease-and-desist order.
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March 06, 2024
The turmoil at Sports Illustrated continued Wednesday as its partner 888 Holdings PLC announced that it was terminating its sportsbook agreement with the brand's parent company, saying the scale of operating costs in the United States has made the venture untenable.
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March 06, 2024
A Michigan appellate judge said on Wednesday that he was hesitant to interpret a decades-old eavesdropping statute to say that taking a photograph is the same as overhearing a conversation, in a union leader's attempt to go after a rival union for snapping a picture during his deposition.
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March 06, 2024
A Pennsylvania judge's finding that "anarchists" had joined up with striking unions outside a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette facility should not let the unions off the hook for blocking delivery vehicles from going in and out of the facility's parking lot, an attorney for the newspaper's publisher argued before a state appellate panel Wednesday.
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March 06, 2024
Liff Walsh & Simmons added a partner with experience at the U.S. Department of Labor and doing public interest work to lead and expand its labor and employment practice.
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March 06, 2024
Connecticut law authorizes the appointment of far more state marshals than necessary, the workers' union told state lawmakers Wednesday, in support of a new bill that would lower the cap and give job candidates incentive to choose the marshals service as a career.
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March 06, 2024
Workers at a Toyota factory in Troy, Missouri, went public Wednesday with their campaign to unionize with the United Auto Workers, saying 30% of the factory's workers have signed union cards amid the UAW's aggressive push to organize the country's nonunion automakers.
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March 06, 2024
Workers at the New York legal services organization Empire Justice Center voted on Monday to unionize, choosing by a 72% vote to join the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys.
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March 06, 2024
A New York hospital illegally threatened and fired a nurse for her union organizing efforts, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, dismissing the hospital's claims that the worker was a supervisor who lacks protections under federal labor law.
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March 05, 2024
A Third Circuit panel appears likely to uphold a decision dismissing a union's wage grievance win despite buying that a cemetery operator disregarded their deal after all but agreeing Tuesday with a district court judge that the union waited too long to object to the company's alleged violation.
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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.