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November 17, 2023
United Airlines workers challenged attempts from the company and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters to nix their suit alleging incorrect calculations of their wage increases, telling a California federal judge that their breach of contract and fair duty of representation claims should stay in court.
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November 17, 2023
A Colorado hospital cannot continue withholding raises from union-represented nurses while National Labor Relations Board litigation proceeds challenging prior refusals to bump these workers' pay, a Colorado federal judge ruled, granting NLRB prosecutors' request for a cease-and-desist order.
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November 17, 2023
Outgoing Boies Schiller Flexner LLP chairman David Boies may be best known for his landmark appellate work in other areas, but he also boasts a considerable legacy shaping the nation's sports and betting laws, with a client list that reads like an All-Star team.
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November 17, 2023
A worker's negligence claim against Amtrak over her fall in a coach restroom should return to the district court for reconsideration, the Second Circuit ruled Friday, reviving the cleaner's allegation that the railroad company didn't ensure she had a safe workplace.
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November 17, 2023
A National Labor Relations Board judge needs to hear how much money the University of Southern California makes from its football and basketball programs to decide whether the school's athletes are workers with union-organizing rights, board prosecutors argued.
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November 17, 2023
In the next two weeks, attorneys should watch for a potential signoff on a $30 million settlement in a long-running class action by cleaning workers against Jan-Pro Franchising International Inc. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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November 17, 2023
In the coming week, the Second Circuit will hear from a group of Jewish professors at the City University of New York seeking to revive their suit alleging they have been unlawfully forced to associate with a union they view as antisemitic. Here, Law360 explores this and other major labor and employment cases on the docket in New York.
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November 16, 2023
The D.C. Circuit's longest-serving judge made clear Thursday morning that he wasn't buying the argument an auto parts manufacturer was selling in hopes of overturning a National Labor Relations Board finding that the company had unlawfully withdrawn recognition of its workers' union.
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November 16, 2023
The once-troubled Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., the federal government's insurer of private-sector pension plans, boasted an end-of-fiscal year surplus of more than $46 million, the agency said.
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November 16, 2023
A scrap metal company urged the Third Circuit to block enforcement of National Labor Relations Board decisions ordering the company to bargain and finding a federal labor law violation over reduction of overtime hours, pursuing its challenge to the certification of a Laborers' International Union of North America local.
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November 16, 2023
A marketing services company violated federal labor law by terminating a worker who complained about an alleged lack of COVID-19 pandemic safety measures and reached out to the National Labor Relations Board, an agency judge ruled Thursday, ordering the business to offer reinstatement.
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November 16, 2023
Fourth Circuit nominee Nicole Berner's long history of advocating for labor unions will make the Service Employees International Union general counsel a rarity on the federal bench should she win confirmation.
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November 16, 2023
The National Labor Relations Board has voted to delay the effective date of its new joint employer rule by about two months, according to a Thursday filing in a Texas federal lawsuit brought by business groups challenging the regulation.
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November 16, 2023
Technicians and other workers at a New York health care facility will vote again on potential representation by a Service Employees International Union local, a National Labor Relations Board official has ruled, adopting a hearing officer's finding that the employer's actions during the vote prevented a fair election.
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November 16, 2023
A Washington federal judge ruled Wednesday that Amazon should have the chance to object before federal prosecutors share documents regarding their workplace safety investigation with other agencies, after Amazon had claimed information was improperly shared with state prosecutors.
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November 16, 2023
Baristas at Starbucks stores across the United States walked off the job Thursday, according to an announcement from Workers United, calling on the coffee chain to meet the union at the bargaining table and reach a first contract that will address staffing concerns.
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November 16, 2023
A Second Circuit panel appeared skeptical Thursday of an injunction a New York federal judge issued barring Amazon from firing workers over their union activity, with two judges questioning whether there was enough evidence to justify such a broad order based on the firing of a single activist.
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November 16, 2023
The National Labor Relations Board correctly found Starbucks violated federal labor law by banning a Seattle barista from handing out pro-union pins on company property during work, board attorneys have argued, urging the D.C. Circuit to uphold the board's ruling that the ban was broad enough to be illegal.
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November 15, 2023
A Texas federal judge should deny business groups' request to hasten their bid to stop enforcement of the NLRB's joint employer rule, the agency argued Wednesday, saying the plaintiffs haven't shown why the case should be expedited, and the board is mulling an extension of the rule's effective date.
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November 15, 2023
An Illinois Supreme Court justice on Wednesday pushed counsel for three staffing agencies that have argued the state's antitrust law doesn't apply to them to explain why their position doesn't require the court to reach an "absurd result" and allow companies to suppress wages through collusion.
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November 15, 2023
A former member of an apprenticeship program for union electricians sued the program and his International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers local in New Jersey federal court, saying he was pushed out of the program after he reported experiences of racism on the job.
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November 15, 2023
Rhode Island has fired back at a dispensary's lawsuit seeking to overturn part of its cannabis law that allegedly forced the company into an unfair labor contract, saying the company tries to blame the state for its missed "opportunity to effectively negotiate" with its workers' union.
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November 15, 2023
REI violated federal labor law by refusing to bargain in good faith with the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union and United Food and Commercial Workers at eight stores across the country, according to charges filed with the NLRB and obtained Wednesday by Law360.
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November 15, 2023
A group of union health care plans have accused Takeda Pharmaceuticals and other drugmakers of engaging in a price-fixing scheme that reduced competition for a gout drug after entering into deals delaying the introduction of cheaper generics.
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November 15, 2023
Sysco urged an Arizona federal court to toss an arbitrator's conclusion that it violated the collective bargaining agreement it had with a Teamsters local, saying the decision to stop selling product to certain customers was financially driven and not a transfer of work.