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April 19, 2024
Rich Reinis, a member of California's newly formed Fast Food Council, said he wants to keep fast food affordable, especially as industry workers now earn a $20 minimum wage. Here, Law360 speaks with Reinis about the council’s future.
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April 19, 2024
This week a New York federal judge will consider a school district's bid to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a Black former technology specialist who claims he was fired after facing discrimination on the job based on his race. Here, Law360 explores this and other cases on the docket in New York.
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April 19, 2024
A National Labor Relations Board official has dismissed a petition to decertify the United Steelworkers as the bargaining representative of workers at an Oregon industrial equipment manufacturer, saying pending unfair labor practice allegations against the company bar a decertification election until they're resolved.
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April 19, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for a potential ruling on whether a class of hotel banquet event workers can continue together with wage claims against San Francisco Hilton Inc., in a long-running case that paid a visit to the Ninth Circuit. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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April 18, 2024
A commissioner of an athletic conference for historically black colleges and universities testified Thursday in a hearing before a National Labor Relations Board judge that being forced to pay student-athletes a salary and treat them as employees would have a "severe impact" on those institutions.
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April 18, 2024
Thousands of workers at Mercedes-Benz plants in Alabama can vote next month on whether to unionize, the United Auto Workers announced Thursday as the union forges ahead with its organizing efforts at nonunion automakers.
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April 18, 2024
A Delaware bankruptcy judge said Thursday he would probably approve troubled trucking company Yellow Corp.'s bid to assume more than 70 leases, but told the debtor and its landlords he needed until Friday to make a final decision.
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April 18, 2024
The workers who play Disney characters at Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, are unionizing, Actors Equity Association announced Thursday, saying over 1,000 employees of the resort's characters and parades departments have signed union cards.
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April 18, 2024
A National Labor Relations Board official in Washington state tossed an election petition from an International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers local at a dishwasher maintenance company, saying agency prosecutors' request for a Cemex bargaining order prevents the vote from proceeding.
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April 18, 2024
A Michigan federal judge tossed litigation accusing Kellogg of shortchanging married retirees by relying on outdated life expectancies and interest rates when calculating their pension payments, agreeing with the company that the Employee Retirement Income Security Act doesn't require the data used to be reasonable.
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April 17, 2024
A Stanford University runner testified on Wednesday for the National Labor Relations Board that some student-athletes should be considered employees due to the control programs exert over them, and that a time he encountered a hotel curfew guard for a Division I basketball team highlights how tight that control can be.
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April 17, 2024
SpaceX's challenge to the National Labor Relations Board's constitutionality will be heard in California federal court after the full Fifth Circuit deadlocked Wednesday on the company's bid for review of a panel decision letting the suit's transfer from Texas stand.
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April 17, 2024
The Biden administration launched an investigation Wednesday into whether China used unfair practices to gain a competitive edge in the global shipping and maritime services sector, setting the stage for potential new tariffs against Beijing.
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April 17, 2024
Starbucks violated federal labor law when it told workers at a Hawaii cafe that they could miss out on a raise and lose the ability to pick up shifts at other stores if they unionized, the National Labor Relations Board held Wednesday, upholding an agency judge's ruling.
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April 17, 2024
Amazon asked the National Labor Relations Board to reopen the record in its challenge to a union's representation election win at a Staten Island warehouse, arguing it was prevented from introducing evidence from a recent documentary bolstering its claim that union misconduct tainted the election.
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April 17, 2024
The Second Circuit will review the National Labor Relations Board's allegations that a radio station operator violated a court's consent judgment enforcing a board decision, with the appeals court appointing a special master to oversee the contempt proceeding.
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April 17, 2024
Fox Rothschild LLP has added a labor and employment partner with decades of experience in collective bargaining, resolving workplace disputes and risk management to its Atlantic City, New Jersey, office.
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April 17, 2024
A meatpacking business accused of improperly transferring union work told a New York federal court it shouldn't face fines for withholding some documents from National Labor Relations Board prosecutors, saying the prosecutors don't need them and are "bullying" a small business that "barely survived the pandemic."
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April 17, 2024
Prosecutors told a federal jury Wednesday that ex-Philadelphia labor leader John Dougherty threatened a jobsite manager with "financial ruin" if the man refused to pay his nephew, Gregory Fiocca, despite spotty attendance during the construction of the Live! Casino.
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April 17, 2024
An Illinois school district will pay about $206,000 to bring an end to a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming it capped salary increases for teachers over 45 to dodge increased retirement payments, the agency said Wednesday.
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April 17, 2024
A chemical manufacturer illegally questioned an employee about his conversations with co-workers and union stewards linked to a wage and hour lawsuit, the National Labor Relations Board concluded, upholding an agency judge's decision about the workers' confidentiality interests.
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April 17, 2024
Welch Foods should comply with an arbitrator's order to rehire a Teamsters-represented worker fired for making vulgar comments to a female co-worker, a Pennsylvania federal magistrate judge said, recommending that the district judge toss the company's challenge to the order.
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April 16, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board reinstated a worker's bid to oust the Communications Workers of America at a bus manufacturing facility in Kentucky on Tuesday, finding the employee made a good faith effort to send signatures for a decertification petition via fax.
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April 16, 2024
A group of delivery drivers at a United Natural Foods Inc. facility in Florida may vote in a representation election with a Teamsters local, a National Labor Relations Board official determined, saying the company couldn't show that an end to the workers' employment was imminent.
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April 16, 2024
Starbucks and Workers United are in talks to settle a National Labor Relations Board suit accusing the company of refusing to bargain labor contracts, according to a notice released Tuesday.