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August 26, 2024
An adhesive tape manufacturer violated federal labor law by maintaining rules concerning workers' postings and access to the business' property, the National Labor Relations Board determined, while approving a company rule prohibiting the use of the employer's phones for personal calls.
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August 26, 2024
Jersey City is fighting the Garden State's cannabis legalization law and argues it conflicts with federal gun control legislation, while the bankrupt former chief financial officer of McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter LLP is facing civil claims he defrauded the firm and paid himself millions in unauthorized salary.
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August 23, 2024
Two ex-presidents of the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers and former high-ranking union officials played a role in a $20 million embezzlement scheme for more than a decade, the U.S. Department of Justice alleged in Kansas federal court, saying union funds were spent on vacation payouts, rent and international trips.
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August 23, 2024
A company that transports migrant children and families from facilities at the U.S.-Mexico border violated federal labor law through its pushback on a union drive, which included interrogating a worker about his union sympathies and later suspending him, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled Friday.
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August 23, 2024
New York City urged a federal court Friday to reject attorneys' $8 million fee request for representing white fire protection inspectors who claimed they were subjected to the same racist pay disparities their nonwhite colleagues alleged they faced, saying it would divert too much money away from the workers.
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August 23, 2024
A year of litigation under the National Labor Relations Board's eased standard for when it orders employers to bargain with unions over unfair labor practices has shown that the decision is every bit the consequential shift in labor law that experts predicted it would be.
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August 23, 2024
An International Longshoremen's Association local has defeated three members' accusations that it breached its duty of fair representation by funneling work opportunities to union leaders' family and friends, with a Georgia federal judge ruling the allegations were based on speculation.
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August 23, 2024
It's been more than a year since national trucking giant Yellow Corp. landed in Delaware's bankruptcy court following contentious union negotiations. Despite pulling in over $2 billion from asset sales and paying off $1.5 billion in debt, Yellow's road out of Chapter 11 has been stalled by high-stakes litigation and claims disputes.
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August 23, 2024
A group of engineers urged the Sixth Circuit to make a lower court send their fraud and civil conspiracy claims against the United Auto Workers and Fiat Chrysler back to Michigan state court, arguing they fall under state law and do not require interpretation of a labor contract.
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August 23, 2024
The NFL comes out of the Sunday Ticket trial with a clean slate, Dartmouth is hit with an unfair labor practice charge by its basketball players, and U.S. Tennis doesn't get a do-over on its handling of a sexual assault case. Law360 is here to catch you up on the sports and betting stories that had our readers talking.
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August 23, 2024
The International Longshoreman's Association pension fund is entitled to collect nearly $1.7 million in unpaid contributions and attorney fees from a union local in San Juan, Puerto Rico, following a merger with another local that had been in arrears, the First Circuit has ruled.
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August 23, 2024
Two elevator workers asked a Pennsylvania federal court to sign off on a $5 million settlement that would wrap up a proposed class action alleging their union's retirement plan was loaded with excessive administrative fees and shoddy investment options.
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August 23, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for the potential final sign-off on a $4 million deal to resolve a wage and hour class action against Arthur J. Gallagher Service Co. LLC. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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August 22, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board overruled on Thursday a Trump-era precedent by ceasing the agency's acceptance of consent orders that face objections from both agency prosecutors and the charging party, finding the practice encroaches on the NLRB general counsel's powers.
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August 22, 2024
National Labor Relations Board prosecutors on Thursday urged the board to broaden an exception to the rule that federal labor law does not shield managers from firing, arguing such punishments are illegal when they're meant to stop nonmanagers from organizing.
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August 22, 2024
Amazon exercised enough control over its contracted Southern California delivery drivers' work conditions to be considered their joint employer, the National Labor Relations Board's Los Angeles office said Thursday, announcing plans to pursue a case that could clear the way for the retail giant's drivers to unionize.
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August 22, 2024
A Philadelphia contractor who accepted union money embezzled by John Dougherty, former business manager of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 98, to renovate the labor leader's personal properties was sentenced to three years of probation Thursday.
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August 22, 2024
A bar in Birmingham, Alabama, did not unlawfully force out employees who went to Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, the National Relations Board ruled, supporting an agency judge's conclusions that the workers weren't taking part in protected concerted activities.
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August 22, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board used an amicus brief Wednesday to call out Kroger and Albertsons for their "mistaken" citation to labor law as a defense against Federal Trade Commission claims that the grocery giants' $25 billion megamerger threatens union bargaining leverage.
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August 22, 2024
An Illinois federal judge tossed litigation claiming an education policy nonprofit meddled in a Chicago Teachers Union election, saying the sections of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act the union sued under do not authorize lawsuits by private parties.
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August 22, 2024
An aluminum manufacturer in Indiana lawfully fired a former union steward for allegedly threatening violence, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, saying the worker's union activities and filing of unfair labor practice charges weren't linked to his discharge.
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August 21, 2024
Major tech companies, including Google, agreed Wednesday to pay roughly $250 million into a fund that proponents say would support newsrooms across California in a deal that avoids a proposed regulation that would've forced Big Tech to pay the state's media organizations for distributing news content.
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August 21, 2024
Trustees of a UNITE HERE health plan can't topple a group of Southern California workers' claims that they are facing higher administrative expenses compared to another group of workers in Las Vegas, an Illinois federal court ruled Wednesday.
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August 21, 2024
The Seventh Circuit enforced a National Labor Relations Board order Wednesday compelling an Illinois Cadillac dealership to rehire and give back pay to the employees it shut out when they went on strike, rejecting the dealership's argument that the enforcement petition was moot because it had already complied.
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August 21, 2024
Jewish graduate students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said Wednesday they will be able to cut ties with their union, ending religious discrimination charges with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and unfair labor practice charges at the National Labor Relations Board.