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June 11, 2025
Unfair labor practice settlements without admissions clauses must only prevent decertification elections for no longer than six months, a worker represented by the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation contended to the NLRB, seeking to overturn agency precedent on what is considered a reasonable time to negotiate a contract.
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June 11, 2025
Amazon should face claims that it started illegally calling the police on labor demonstrations after its workers' union affiliated with the Teamsters, Amazon Labor Union officials argued, asking a New York federal judge to preserve a lawsuit that also names the New York Police Department as a defendant.
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June 10, 2025
An Illinois federal judge seemed skeptical Tuesday that health benefit plans accusing Biogen of impairing competition for its multiple sclerosis drug, Tecfidera, have standing to bring their lawsuit under decades-old precedent allowing only direct purchasers to recoup damages.
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June 10, 2025
A janitor in California must arbitrate her claims that a cleaning services company owed minimum wages and didn't give rest breaks, a federal magistrate judge ruled Tuesday, finding a grievance process in an unsigned collective bargaining agreement still covers the worker's claims.
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June 10, 2025
The Teamsters are backing a California bill that would require self-driving delivery vehicles to run with a human operator, an effort that has drawn opposition from businesses but that the union sees as part of a fight to push back against job-threatening technology.
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June 10, 2025
A Virginia trucking company hasn't presented enough evidence to counter the National Labor Relations Board's conclusion that it unlawfully interfered with a union representation election, the board told the Fourth Circuit, asking the court to enforce the board's bargaining order.
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June 10, 2025
A Michigan judge indicated Tuesday that he would let General Motors withdraw allegations that Fiat Chrysler held foreign bank accounts in a union bribery scheme suit, and said he'd leave the determination of whether the automaker should be sanctioned for not sharing its evidence supporting those claims for another day.
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June 10, 2025
The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists has reached a tentative agreement for a union contract that would end a nearly yearlong strike by performers who provide voice-over and acting work for video games, the union announced.
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June 10, 2025
A musicians union has asked a New York federal judge to toss two suspended New York Philharmonic players' allegations that the union illegally dropped its fight for their reinstatement, saying it had good reason to abandon the mission after the full extent of their alleged sexual violence was revealed.
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June 10, 2025
Mayer Brown LLP has rehired the former co-chair of its practice focused on retirement benefit matters, who returns to the firm after helping to lead a team of attorneys at Fidelity Investments responsible for health and retirement plan litigation.
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June 10, 2025
A Communications Workers of America affiliate pushed the Fifth Circuit to uphold the National Labor Relations Board's bargaining order against Nexstar at two television stations in Denver, challenging the company's claims that the union unfairly swayed a representation election.
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June 10, 2025
The chairman of the National Labor Relations Board signaled Tuesday that the board may soon return to full function after months operating mostly without a quorum, saying "nominations are imminent" to fill at least some of the panel's vacancies.
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June 09, 2025
A New York federal judge on Monday granted a preliminary injunction bid against the U.S. Office of Personnel Management in a lawsuit accusing it of unlawfully disclosing employees' personal information to the Department of Government Efficiency, saying OPM granted broad access to the information despite there being no "credible need."
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June 09, 2025
A disabled pilot accused American Airlines and its third-party administrator of systematically miscalculating workers' long-term disability benefits by excluding certain forms of compensation from their monthly benefit calculations, according to a suit filed in Texas federal court.
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June 09, 2025
The acting general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board signaled optimism Monday that the board will be spared the ax in President Donald Trump's culling of federal agencies, saying that the administration has "treated us well."
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June 09, 2025
Three Democratic senators called on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Department of Justice on Monday to provide legal justification for the arrest of the president of a Service Employees International Union affiliate in California during an immigration enforcement raid last week.
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June 09, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court should leave in place a California federal judge's order barring implementation of layoffs and reorganizations at various federal departments and agencies, several unions and nonprofits argued Monday, claiming a decision allowing the changes would irreversibly harm the federal government and render Congress and the judiciary powerless.
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June 09, 2025
The Second Circuit ruled Monday that a doctor couldn't use a power-of-attorney arrangement to sue on behalf of a patient who said their union's health plan illegally stuck them with a $150,000 medical bill, but directed a trial court to determine if the patient can pursue the case.
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June 09, 2025
National Labor Relations Board prosecutors are seeking reinstatement for a Washington Post reporter who spoke up about a coworker's retweet that she found offensive, arguing the journalist's complaints on Slack and social media were protected under federal labor law.
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June 09, 2025
A nonprofit that supplies janitors to the city of Portland, Oregon, is challenging the city's requirement for certain city contractors to enter into labor peace agreements with unions, claiming in a new lawsuit in federal court that the rule is preempted by the National Labor Relations Act.
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June 06, 2025
Employees of the federal agency that provides grants and resources to public libraries cannot immediately get blocked President Donald Trump's executive order dismantling the agency, a Washington, D.C., federal judge ruled Friday, saying there is a likelihood the case belongs in the Court of Federal Claims.
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June 06, 2025
The American Guild of Musical Artists and the Metropolitan Opera announced Friday that the parties saw eye-to-eye on a tentative agreement for a one-year collective bargaining agreement, saying the deal includes wage hikes.
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June 06, 2025
California's labor commissioner asked a federal court Friday to toss a lawsuit challenging the state's law prohibiting so-called captive audience meetings, arguing that the nonprofit that sued to block the law lacks standing because it hasn't sufficiently alleged an injury or "a credible threat of prosecution."
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June 06, 2025
Three federal worker unions urged a Massachusetts federal judge not to toss their challenge to the president's deferred resignation offer, saying the personnel agencies the government wants to send their suit to can't decide their claims or give them a fair shake.
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June 06, 2025
A nuclear plant operator unlawfully refused to give an International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers local information about wages for workers the union didn't represent, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, finding the company must still hand over the information even though the parties notched a labor contract.