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September 05, 2023
A bus driver who sued her former labor unions over deductions taken after her departure lost her appeal Tuesday in the Second Circuit, which said her constitutional rights were not violated.
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September 05, 2023
A meat processor in Nebraska is a "flagrant violator" of federal labor law, the National Labor Relations Board told the Eighth Circuit, defending its issuance of broader remedies after finding the company bargained in bad faith with a United Food and Commercial Workers local.
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September 01, 2023
A Virginia heating and air conditioning company created an alter ego and laid off its unionized workers in an attempt to shake its collectively bargained obligations to provide nearly $100,000 in benefits fund obligations, a union alleged in a suit filed in Virginia federal court Friday.
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September 01, 2023
Kaiser Permanente and a health care workers union entered dueling bids to shake responsibility for claims of breaching obligations to ensure sufficient staffing levels at health care facilities.
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September 01, 2023
The National Labor Relations Board may have framed a recent decision on its standard for vetting anti-union bias claims as a clarification, but its ruling nonetheless signals that the agency won't need piles of direct evidence to find violations.
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September 01, 2023
Organized labor labeled this summer the Summer of Strikes ahead of multiple anticipated high-profile work stoppages, an uptick in labor activity that experts and advocates say reflects changing views from workers and the broader public.
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September 01, 2023
A Florida federal court didn't err when it instructed a jury that later found the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs didn't retaliate against a nurse for his union activities, the Eleventh Circuit ruled Friday, affirming the jury's verdict in favor of the department.
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September 01, 2023
This week, the Second Circuit will hear a former health care company employee's attempt to revive a lawsuit claiming the company unlawfully discriminated against her based on her perceived relationship status because she had a child with a co-worker before her employment. Here, Law360 explores this and other major labor and employment cases on the docket in New York.
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September 01, 2023
A National Labor Relations Board regional director is permitting 25 oil tanker ship officers to vote for unionization, rejecting their employers' arguments that the officers were ineligible supervisors or that the voting unit should be expanded to include more than 100 other workers.
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September 01, 2023
Fox Rothschild LLP has added a labor expert with more 20 years of experience as counsel to its labor management relations team in the Dallas office, the firm said Thursday.
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September 01, 2023
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for a potential ruling on whether a drug testing provider can appeal to the Ninth Circuit a ruling in a proposed class action alleging that testing hair for drugs resulted in race discrimination. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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August 31, 2023
A Texas federal judge on Thursday threw out of First Amendment-based challenge to the National Labor Relations Board general counsel's statement that employers violate labor law when they force workers to sit through meetings discouraging unionization, saying the statement is an "unreviewable prosecutorial decision" that precludes the court's jurisdiction.
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August 31, 2023
The National Labor Relations Board's decisions overturning a President Donald Trump-era standard that gave employers more leeway to make unilateral changes to employees' working conditions is likely to make employers bargain over more issues after their labor contracts expire and lead unions to be bolder in demanding negotiations, experts said.
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August 31, 2023
Prudential Insurance Co. and two software companies failed to protect the personal information of thousands of participants in a Teamsters pension plan from an attack on a file-sharing tool believed to be carried out by Russian hackers, a plan participant told a Massachusetts federal court.
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August 31, 2023
Members of a broadcast union local saw the temporary restraining order dissolving a trusteeship placed upon them by the broader union's leadership converted to a permanent injunction and also got a payout for the costs of that trusteeship in a consent judgment filed in Illinois federal court.
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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.