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April 10, 2025
The U.S. Department of Defense violated a Biden-era executive order by saying it won't use project labor agreements on large-scale construction projects, two labor organizations told a Washington, D.C., federal judge, saying the executive order is still valid despite a successful challenge to it before the Court of Federal Claims.
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April 10, 2025
The D.C. Circuit's leanings were tough to glean Thursday as judges raised few questions about a National Labor Relations Board ruling that George Washington University Hospital's aggressive bargaining proposals showed it approached negotiations with a longtime union in bad faith.
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April 10, 2025
A National Labor Relations Board prosecutor, under the leadership of the acting general counsel, sought to withdraw some unfair labor practice claims against an auto parts maker and asked to drop a bid to make the employer bargain with a United Auto Workers affiliate.
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April 09, 2025
The California federal judge who ordered the reinstatement of many fired probationary federal workers before the U.S. Supreme Court stayed his ruling on Wednesday ordered the public sector unions representing federal staffers to provide a list of their booted members, calling their claims that the information would be difficult to produce "evasive."
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April 09, 2025
The D.C. Circuit on Thursday will consider enforcing a National Labor Relations Board ruling that George Washington University Hospital sabotaged union negotiations by sticking to aggressive proposals, weighing when the content of an employer's bargaining positions can cross the line into bad faith.
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April 09, 2025
Google challenged National Labor Relations Board prosecutors' summary judgment bid alleging the company illegally refused to bargain with the Alphabet Workers Union-Communications Workers of America, arguing the company does not jointly employ unionized content creation workers at Accenture.
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April 09, 2025
The Teamsters and the National Labor Relations Board urged the Ninth Circuit to reject Amazon's bid for an injunction blocking an agency prosecution, with the board arguing it is not in the public interest to lock workers out of the only federal labor law enforcement venue over alleged constitutional defects.
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April 09, 2025
Apple will revise some parts of its confidentiality agreement and other worker policies as part of an unfair labor practice settlement at the National Labor Relations Board, according to the deal, which requires the tech giant to put up a post indefinitely on a public-facing website.
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April 09, 2025
Chief Justice John Roberts temporarily paused an en banc D.C. Circuit's order reinstating two fired members of the National Labor Relations Board and the Merit Systems Protection Board on Wednesday, in a dispute that challenges a 90-year-old U.S. Supreme Court ruling protecting certain government officials from presidential removal.
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April 09, 2025
An SEIU affiliate asked the Third Circuit to uphold a lower court's denial of a preliminary injunction bid challenging the constitutionality of NLRB proceedings against a New Jersey nursing home, saying the facility's claims about showing harm could lead to making the "nation's labor laws unenforceable."
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April 09, 2025
Greenspoon Marder LLP has hired a labor and employment duo from Dinsmore & Shohl LLP, which they had joined in December after leaving a firm that one of them helped launch in 2022, the firm has announced.
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April 08, 2025
Six unions asked a California federal court to block the Trump administration from imposing an executive order that would ax collective bargaining agreements at federal agencies that have "national security" aims, arguing the unions are likely to win on their claims that the government is committing constitutional violations.
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April 08, 2025
A Delaware bankruptcy judge has offered his views on how state, federal and bankruptcy laws impact billions of dollars in disputed claims as defunct trucking company Yellow Corp. looks to confirm a Chapter 11 plan and a settlement with pension funds.
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April 08, 2025
Starbucks urged a Missouri federal judge to toss a suit from the state's attorney general claiming the company employs diversity quotas that discriminate against white and male applicants, arguing the state hasn't presented any evidence that its diversity, equity and inclusion policies have negatively affected Missourians.
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April 08, 2025
A congressional hearing Tuesday on the future of college sports under labor law mostly retread the same debates over athletes unionizing, though one Republican lawmaker's call to "get the [National Collegiate Athletic Association] out" drew attention from the other side of the aisle.
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April 08, 2025
A split Fourth Circuit panel paused Monday a ruling blocking the Department of Government Efficiency from accessing sensitive information on millions of Americans held by the U.S. Department of the Treasury, U.S. Department of Education and the Office of Personnel Management, while a dissenting judge disagreed "with all the energy an old judge can muster."
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April 08, 2025
Littler Mendelson PC has brought on a former Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP attorney with experience representing sports leagues and teams as a shareholder in Washington, D.C., the management-side firm's latest addition to its burgeoning sports practice.
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April 08, 2025
An oil company agreed to pay $7.2 million to resolve a 2,200-member class action accusing it of failing to provide unionized workers with rest breaks and pay them a minimum wage, a filing in California federal court said.
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April 08, 2025
An International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers unit violated federal labor law by firing a business agent who led efforts to organize employees of the union, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, finding considerable evidence of anti-union bias.
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April 08, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday hit pause on a California federal court order reinstating tens of thousands of probationary federal workers who were fired from six agencies, agreeing with the Trump administration that the nonprofit groups that obtained the order lack standing to challenge the firings.
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April 07, 2025
Two New Jersey police unions couldn't convince a state appeals court that Atlantic City and the state owed retroactive raises to officers, an appellate panel ruled Monday, finding a law focused on assisting municipalities with financial troubles supplants agreements about wage increases and promotions.
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April 07, 2025
The American Federation of Government Employees and one of its affiliates requested an injunction to block U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's move to end a collective bargaining agreement covering Transportation Security Administration employees, accusing the Trump administration of retaliating against the union.
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April 07, 2025
President Donald Trump's executive order ending collective bargaining with unions representing federal workers illegally targets unions that don't agree with him, the American Foreign Service Association said in a lawsuit filed in District of Columbia federal court Monday.
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April 07, 2025
Kroger and Albertsons have accused Colorado's attorney general of going on a "fishing expedition" as they wait for a ruling on a claim that the grocers brokered an illegal "no-poach" agreement during a 2022 grocery store strike, in a motion asking a Colorado state court to quash document requests into a February strike.
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April 07, 2025
Teamsters representatives didn't taint the results of a UPS union representation election by chatting with workers in a warehouse parking lot while the vote went on inside, a Ninth Circuit panel ruled Monday, saying the representatives' "brief conversations with three voters … did not constitute objectionable electioneering or voter intimidation."