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September 20, 2023
A National Labor Relations Board judge should stand by his ruling that Starbucks improperly fired a worker-organizer at a Manhattan store, but reconsider his finding that the company didn't have to discuss the employee's firing with the staff's union beforehand, Workers United and NLRB prosecutors said.
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September 20, 2023
YouTube Music employees went on strike Wednesday, accusing Google and a contractor of refusing to bargain with their union after the National Labor Relations Board said the companies are joint employers, setting up a test-of-certification case with the union's filing of an unfair labor practice charge.
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September 20, 2023
Twenty-five quality assurance engineers at a Utah bank software company can vote on whether to be represented by the Teamsters, an NLRB official held, rejecting the company's argument that a recent departmental reorganization had disbanded the potential bargaining unit and rendered an election inappropriate.
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September 19, 2023
The National Labor Relations Board granted board prosecutors' motion for default judgment in a case accusing a management company of firing a union-represented office worker and replacing her with a nonunion worker, ruling Tuesday that the company's attorney didn't adequately justify missing the response deadline.
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September 19, 2023
A bid by National Labor Relations Board prosecutors to make a green nonprofit unwind a mass layoff and bargain with a union offers an early court test of new precedent lowering the bar for orders forcing employers that violate workers rights to recognize and deal with unions.
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September 19, 2023
A health care system's overpayments to workers in connection with a 2021 Kronos ransomware attack need further review, a Washington state appeals court concluded, reversing a trial court's decision granting summary judgment to three unions in their suit over the company's clawback of the payments.
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September 19, 2023
A National Labor Relations Board panel has rejected a transportation business's challenge to the results of a union representation election over alleged union misconduct, though the board's Republican member said he would be open to addressing the enforcement of "no-electioneering" zones in the future.
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September 19, 2023
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce asked the Sixth Circuit Monday to vacate a National Labor Relations Board decision that says severance agreements can't bar workers from disparaging their employers, as the decision exceeds the board's authority and runs against precedent.
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September 19, 2023
A Kaiser Permanente affiliate must provide a health care workers' union with requested documents about mental health services, the National Labor Relations Board told the Ninth Circuit, arguing that the appeals court should back the board's findings that the company violated federal labor law.
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September 19, 2023
Steelworkers brought in to replace union workers during a lockout at Allegheny Technologies Inc. asked a Pennsylvania federal court Tuesday to sign off on a $4 million deal settling their suit seeking compensation for the extra time it took to transport them past picket lines, calling it an "excellent" outcome.
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September 19, 2023
A longshoremen's union violated federal labor law when it led a member who tried to challenge a union-imposed fine on a "wild goose chase" toward an appeal process that turned out to be either "nonexistent or simply hidden," a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled.
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September 18, 2023
Pointing to a growing mountain of evidence to sift through in a corruption case spanning several trials, counsel for former International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 98 leader John Dougherty asked a Pennsylvania federal judge on Monday to postpone his trial yet again while he gets up to speed.
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September 18, 2023
The United Steelworkers cannot be barred from pursuing unfair labor practice charges against a manufacturer for changing a labor contract's terms after it acquired a bankrupt company that was party to the agreement, a Delaware federal judge ruled Monday, saying the union may proceed with claims over the manufacturer's post-sale actions.
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September 19, 2023
As a broader legal trend points toward compensating college athletes for their labor, a recent petition for a union representation election among players on Dartmouth College's men's basketball team poses tricky questions about how these rights apply in the labor context.
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September 18, 2023
National Labor Relations Board attorneys urged the D.C. Circuit to uphold the board's finding that a produce company violated federal labor law by telling a driver to uncover his truck's camera during lunch, saying Monday the board reasonably found this created the impression the company was monitoring union activity.
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September 18, 2023
Airlines for America has filed a federal lawsuit challenging Colorado's 2020 law creating sick leave requirements for workers, arguing that the regulations are preempted by federal law.
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September 18, 2023
A pension fund for union-represented construction workers in Southern California squandered $30 million due to bad advice from an investment adviser, the fund alleges in a new lawsuit filed in California federal court seeking to recoup the money.
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September 18, 2023
3M Co. won't arbitrate two workers' grievances over the assignment of shifts, an International Union of Operating Engineers affiliate argued in a complaint removed to California federal court.
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September 18, 2023
A Nevada steel company must pay Michigan ironworkers' pension funds more than $2 million in unpaid benefits and other fees for more than a year's worth of employees' work on a project in Detroit, a Michigan federal judge ruled Sunday.
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September 18, 2023
A Nebraska electrical contractor violated federal labor law by withholding wage information from its workers' union, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, saying the request was relevant to the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers local's work as the employees' representative.
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September 18, 2023
National Labor Relations Board attorneys asked an agency judge to order a cannabis company to negotiate with a United Food and Commercial Workers local under a recent board precedent shift, saying the company's unfair labor practices led to the union's loss of majority support.
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September 18, 2023
Kellogg lowballed thousands of retirees' retirement benefits by using outdated formulas to calculate pension payments, a former employee said in a proposed class action filed in a Michigan federal court.
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September 15, 2023
A software company in Silicon Valley violated federal labor law by firing a worker who had raised concerns that a group of employees shared, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled Friday, saying evidence showed the company's bias against the worker's protected activities.
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September 15, 2023
The United Auto Workers and Detroit's Big Three continued contract negotiations over the weekend but showed little sign of any agreement as 12,700 workers remained on strike at three General Motors, Ford and Stellantis facilities, as an emboldened UAW fired back at the automakers' warnings of impending layoffs and shuttered operations.
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September 15, 2023
An International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers local urged a New York federal judge Friday to preserve its arbitration win in a dispute with a power plant operator over which workers qualified for a supplemental retirement benefit, saying the arbitrator's decision was "reasonable, if not inevitable."