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March 27, 2024
A dispute between The Belt Railway Co. of Chicago and a rail workers union over operations changes must head to arbitration, an Illinois federal judge ruled, siding with the carrier's claims that a potential strike could cause it harm.
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March 27, 2024
National Labor Relations Board prosecutors asked a New York federal judge to hold two meatpacking companies in contempt of court for refusing to fully comply with a subpoena in a work transfer dispute, saying their stated reason for withholding certain documents is not valid.
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March 27, 2024
A House committee subpoenaed the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. as part of its probe into a $127 million overpayment to Teamsters pensioners who had already died, distributed as part of a multibillion-dollar bailout of multiemployer funds Congress approved during the pandemic.
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March 27, 2024
A western Massachusetts cannabis retailer has asked a state court to reinstate an employee's petition to decertify a budding local of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, which was dismissed by a state labor board following a settlement of separate prohibited practices complaints.
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March 26, 2024
Alcoa USA Corp. violated its collectively bargained obligations when it unilaterally cut off company-provided life insurance benefits, but was within its rights to pay retirees to waive their claims to benefits, an Indiana federal judge ruled.
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March 26, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and National Labor Relations Board may be joining forces to clarify how protections for workers who get heated during union activity square with anti-discrimination law, and experts said specific examples on this interplay are at the top of their wish list.
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March 26, 2024
Benefits funds affiliated with the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades can't move ahead with their claims that a turf installer didn't pay contributions, a California federal judge ruled, saying the funds didn't include the calculation for payment in their allegations.
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March 26, 2024
Mercedes-Benz has fired at least three workers for openly backing the United Auto Workers' organizing campaign at an Alabama plant, the union claimed Tuesday in a National Labor Relations Board charge.
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March 26, 2024
The D.C. Circuit on Tuesday vacated a National Labor Relations Board decision that found a produce company unlawfully disciplined a pro-union worker and gave another the impression he was being surveilled, calling the board's approach to the case "nonsense."
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March 26, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board's Los Angeles office accused a North Hollywood strip club of breaching a settlement with the Actors' Equity Association, according to a copy of a complaint obtained by Law360 on Tuesday, with agency attorneys seeking payment for terminated workers and a reading notice.
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March 26, 2024
The Teamsters have defeated Yellow Corp.'s $137 million lawsuit accusing them of pushing the trucking company into bankruptcy through intransigence in negotiations over a corporate restructuring, with a Kansas federal judge finding the company didn't exhaust the grievance process under a union contract before suing.
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March 26, 2024
The New York Civil Liberties Union on Monday backed the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys in its fight against a subpoena from the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce following the union's adoption of a resolution in support of the Palestinian cause.
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March 25, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board told the U.S. Supreme Court that Starbucks is ignoring the history of how courts use injunction standards under federal labor law, explaining to the justices that a two-part test doesn't lead to more favorable outcomes for the agency.
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March 25, 2024
Workers at a Volkswagen factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee, will take their third crack at voting on representation by the United Auto Workers next month, the National Labor Relations Board announced Monday, revealing that the election has been scheduled without company pushback.
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March 25, 2024
The federal funding bill President Joe Biden signed over the weekend keeps the National Labor Relations Board's budget at a little under $300 million for the rest of the fiscal year and maintains a longstanding bar against holding union elections electronically.
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March 25, 2024
The Seventh Circuit reversed a Teamsters pension fund's $2.3 million win in a dispute over withdrawal liability against a bulk transport company, finding that a lower court properly denied the union attorney fees but erred in ruling in the union's favor on the merits of the case.
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March 25, 2024
Boeing violated federal labor law by laying off union-represented flight training airplane instructor pilots after they voted against decertifying their bargaining representative, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, saying the company was punishing the pilots for failing to oust the union after two opportunities.
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March 25, 2024
An arbitrator properly determined that the COVID-19 pandemic wasn't an "act of God" that excused a Starbucks distributor's reduction of hours for Teamsters-represented workers, an Illinois federal judge ruled, nixing the company's claim that the award didn't stem from the parties' labor contract.
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March 22, 2024
A Michigan federal judge on Friday warned a union worker alleging the United Auto Workers mismanaged her claim for benefits that she could have her lawsuit dismissed if she doesn't respond to the union's request to toss the accusations.
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March 22, 2024
A recent settlement in which a security company agreed to pay workers for withheld raises represents a win for the NLRB's top prosecutor in her initiative to compensate workers whose employers undermine bargaining, but the facts of the case mean there's not much to glean for other disputes, experts say.
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March 22, 2024
A former Sherman & Howard LLC attorney advising employers on union organizing campaigns, collective bargaining and unfair labor practice cases is now a Foley Hoag LLP partner in Denver, the firm announced, where he will bring 20-plus years of experience in private practice and as an NLRB attorney.
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March 22, 2024
A Georgia pipefitting company violated federal labor law when it prematurely terminated a project labor agreement with a union, then fired or rescinded job offers to 18 union-represented workers, the Eleventh Circuit ruled Friday, upholding decisions by a National Labor Relations Board panel and an agency judge.
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March 22, 2024
An IBEW local is urging a Pennsylvania federal judge to grant it a quick win in its fight to send to arbitration a grievance challenging a nuclear power plant operator's healthcare benefits contributions, arguing that the dispute falls within the parameters of the union's collective bargaining agreement.
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March 22, 2024
Michigan appellate judges said it's common sense that taking a photograph isn't the same as overhearing a conversation, agreeing with a lower court that a union leader's eavesdropping claim against a rival should be tossed because an image of him posted online doesn't convey a private discussion.
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March 22, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board challenged an International Union of Operating Engineers local's "wholly inappropriate" sanctions bid against the agency at the Seventh Circuit, telling the appeals court that the union can't raise an argument related to the lawfulness of a punch-in policy for strike replacement workers.