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November 05, 2025
A Puerto Rico grain company must pay the National Labor Relations Board $724,500 after violating a 2019 consent order in an unfair labor practice case, the First Circuit held while also ordering a former company executive to pay the board $90,400.
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November 05, 2025
A Ninth Circuit opinion rejecting a constitutional challenge to a National Labor Relations Board ruling adds to the weight of case law supporting the agency's function, though it doesn't directly clash with a Fifth Circuit ruling that guts the agency's process for some parties.
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November 04, 2025
A purification device maker told a D.C. federal court in a case seeking to block the National Labor Relations Board's case against it that the prosecution can't proceed because the board's acting general counsel is not validly serving.
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November 04, 2025
Workers at a Pennsylvania dispensary affiliated with the cannabis giant Green Thumb Industries have ratified their first contract with the Teamsters after a 45-day strike, believed to be the longest in the cannabis industry's history, the union announced Tuesday.
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November 04, 2025
A trucking company asked an Illinois federal judge to preserve its legal challenge to a Teamsters local's picket, saying the union pushed the boundaries of what's acceptable under labor law by coercing neutral employers to stop doing business with the company.
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November 04, 2025
The Third Circuit on Tuesday refused to rethink its earlier decision to reverse a $3.5 million win for a pipe fitters and plumbers union in a dispute with a commercial real estate company over pension contributions related to overtime hours.
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November 04, 2025
Employment and labor law firm Littler Mendelson PC has expanded its offerings in San Francisco with a veteran in-house attorney who most recently spent over eight years at Amazon.
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November 03, 2025
Three baseball players have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to rehear their petition to stop major league organizations from restricting their salaries, noting another similar pending petition and saying the issue will persist until the justices undo baseball's exemption from antitrust laws.
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November 03, 2025
The Eighth Circuit is standing by a decision that let Minnesota continue banning mandatory anti-union meetings, opting Monday not to rehear a challenge to the law filed by a coalition of business groups that the court had tossed on standing grounds.
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November 03, 2025
Several community college teachers' unions backed the University of California system's challenge to millions of dollars in cuts to federal funding for higher education projects and programs, saying President Donald Trump's fight with the UC system is trickling down to its community colleges.
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November 03, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court should review a Fifth Circuit decision that cleared an easy path for federal judges in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi to block National Labor Relations Board cases from unfolding against employers, an office workers' union told the justices.
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November 03, 2025
The Third Circuit on Monday seemed inclined to reopen a dispute between two companies and a union over an $800,000 pension withdrawal bill, with judges questioning whether the parties must first arbitrate disputes about the timeliness of liability notices from the union.
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November 03, 2025
Amazon must pay Connecticut warehouse workers for time spent waiting for and undergoing security screenings because state wage and hour laws contain unique "hours worked" definitions that do not appear in the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, the employees' lawyer told the Connecticut Supreme Court on Monday.
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November 03, 2025
The Trump administration is asking a District of Columbia federal judge to cancel an upcoming hearing over a bid to block an executive order ending the collective bargaining rights of two unions representing employees at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the National Weather Service.
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October 31, 2025
The WNBA and the Women's National Basketball Players Association will extend their current collective bargaining agreement by one month, they announced Friday, the day the deal was set to expire.
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October 31, 2025
The Fifth Circuit in a published opinion Friday rejected the National Labor Relations Board's new remedial framework, saying the agency overstepped by ordering a restaurant owner to compensate workers for the foreseeable losses they suffered after their illegal firings.
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October 31, 2025
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's employee union warned that the agency is on the verge of running out of money and called for its acting Director Russell Vought to immediately request additional funds from the Federal Reserve.
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October 31, 2025
A former International Brotherhood of Boilermakers president who was ousted during an embezzlement scandal has asked a Missouri federal judge to toss the union's attempt to recoup $470,000, saying the union sued under the wrong law.
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October 31, 2025
The United Steelworkers union is backing U.S. Wind's injunction motion to halt the federal government's reversal of approval of its wind farm off the coast of Maryland, telling a federal judge that the about-face jeopardizes over 500 permanent jobs and $1 billion in labor income over the next 20 years.
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October 31, 2025
The Third Circuit will hear a union's appeal in a withdrawal liability battle, a union health plan defends its partial win in a coverage fight at the Ninth Circuit, and pharmacy benefit managers will take a challenge to the Federal Trade Commission's authority to the full Eighth Circuit. Here are three arguments to keep an eye on in November.
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October 31, 2025
President Donald Trump wasn't allowed to revoke the union status of electricians, linemen and plant operators at the Departments of Energy and the Interior, a group of union locals told a D.C. federal court, saying federal labor law enshrines their right to remain union-represented.
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October 31, 2025
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for California Supreme Court oral arguments dealing with whether an employer's "illegible" arbitration agreement is enforceable. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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October 30, 2025
Three upstate New York farms have asked a federal judge to block the state from imposing union contracts on them, saying New York's enforcement of a 2019 law that gave farmworkers union organizing rights violates the farms' right to due process of law.
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October 30, 2025
A recent Ninth Circuit ruling reaffirmed that the National Labor Relations Board's expanded remedial scheme generally fits within the agency's mandate to protect worker organizing but provides little guidance as to whether specific remedies will pass the court's muster.
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October 30, 2025
The U.S. Department of Labor's leadership team now consists of at least two officials who previously represented challengers to Democratic-era wage and hour rules, signaling the Trump administration's potential approach to the same regulatory issues.