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August 31, 2023
A Los Angeles restaurant failed to bargain in good faith with a UNITE HERE local before COVID-19 hit and can't use the pandemic as an excuse to duck the union, the National Labor Relations Board told the Ninth Circuit, urging the appeals court to uphold a board decision from December.
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August 31, 2023
The D.C. Circuit must deny a Colorado hospital's bid for reconsideration of the appeals court's ruling that a nurse cast a valid ballot in a close union representation election, the NLRB argued, saying the signature on the ballot followed agency rules.
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August 31, 2023
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce told the U.S. Senate that Gwynne Wilcox's nomination for another term on the National Labor Relations Board should not move to a final vote until President Joe Biden nominates a Republican to the board.
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August 31, 2023
The National Labor Relations Board held in a decision released Thursday that federal labor law protects workers who advocate for nonemployees, such as interns, reversing a Trump-era ruling that allowed employers to punish workers for aiding unprotected colleagues.
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August 31, 2023
Elon Musk's tweet questioning why Tesla employees at a California plant would pay union dues is protected by the First Amendment, the company said, telling the full Fifth Circuit that a panel erred in upholding the National Labor Relations Board's ruling to delete the tweet.
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August 31, 2023
Federal labor law protects protests by individual workers that could prompt future group actions, the National Labor Relations Board said in a decision released Thursday, lowering its bar for concluding that single-worker actions constitute protected organizing activity.
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August 30, 2023
A Washington, D.C., bus contractor violated federal labor law by refusing to rehire a former employee because of his union activism, a National Labor Relations Board judge said Wednesday, citing a "record laden with animus" toward the worker's labor activity.
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August 30, 2023
New York City has agreed to pay $29.2 million to end a class action alleging that white fire protection inspectors were subjected to the same racist pay disparities their nonwhite colleagues alleged they faced, according to a Wednesday filing in federal court.
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August 30, 2023
Americans' support for unions dipped from a multi-decade high this year but remains strong amid a series of high-profile strikes and contract negotiations, according to data released Wednesday by polling service Gallup.
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August 30, 2023
Workers at two separate facilities of a Georgia brewery hold jobs that are similar enough to be part of the same union, a National Labor Relations Board official ruled, approving the union election.
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August 30, 2023
A workforce development nonprofit in Cleveland will pay $32,000 to settle an Equal Employment Opportunity suit alleging it gave an employee with breast cancer no choice but to quit by refusing to let her work remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic, the agency said Tuesday.
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August 30, 2023
Employers cannot make certain types of unilateral changes to their workers' job conditions after the expiration of a labor contract or during negotiation of an initial deal, even if the change was in line with past practice, the National Labor Relations Board said Wednesday, reversing two Trump-era decisions.
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August 30, 2023
The U.S. has called on Mexico to investigate whether a Mexican air freight company was retaliating against pilots due to their union membership, the Biden administration announced Wednesday.
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August 30, 2023
The legal industry still has a long way to go before it can achieve gender parity at its upper levels. But these law firms are performing better than others in breaking the proverbial glass ceiling that prevents women from attaining leadership roles.
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August 30, 2023
A Texas maintenance company violated labor law by refusing to bargain with a newly established union and threatening workers that they would lose their jobs if they supported a union, the Fifth Circuit ruled, upholding a National Labor Relations Board decision.
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August 30, 2023
The U.S. Department of Labor said Wednesday that it is putting forward a rule to raise the salary threshold under which employees are eligible for overtime pay under federal labor law.
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August 29, 2023
A medical waste management company violated federal labor law by disciplining workers for using sick days, the National Labor Relations Board concluded, with board member Gwynne A. Wilcox sharing a willingness to reconsider agency precedent over bargaining rights.
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August 29, 2023
The National Labor Relations Board said an Exxon Mobil unit violated federal labor law by refusing to negotiate an absence policy as punishment for a union's aggression and telling workers they'd be better off without a union, revisiting a 2020 decision the board nullified over a former member's conflicts.
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August 29, 2023
The U.S. Department of Labor issued a draft rule Tuesday that would let union representatives and other nonemployees join federal safety inspectors on workplace walkthroughs, angling to revive a stricken Obama-era policy.
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August 29, 2023
A Pennsylvania builders group and some of its members don't have standing to challenge a union trades council's project labor agreements with a community college and a local government, the Third Circuit ruled Tuesday, saying the group hasn't shown impending harms from the accords.
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August 29, 2023
A divided Ninth Circuit panel on Tuesday revived an airline lobby's preemption challenge of a San Francisco ordinance expanding airport workers' health care benefits, saying the city acted as a regulator by invoking hefty civil penalties to coerce airlines to comply.
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August 29, 2023
The National Labor Relations Board was right to order a legal support consulting firm to negotiate with a union, as the board has jurisdiction to determine whether the workers involved are supervisors, the board has told the Fifth Circuit.
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August 29, 2023
AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler on Tuesday declared organized labor "on the rise" as she touted new polling showing overwhelming support for unions among all voters and particularly those under the age of 30.
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August 29, 2023
Trader Joe's United urged the National Labor Relations Board to issue a bargaining order under its new Cemex standard, according to an announcement from the union Tuesday, saying the grocery chain should be required to negotiate after committing unfair labor practices at a New York City store.
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August 29, 2023
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters has accused Yellow Corp. of "brazen forum shopping" by trying to move claims the union drove the trucking company into Chapter 11 into bankruptcy court before the union's motion to dismiss the case can be heard.