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August 31, 2026
A Teamsters local that represents dozens of school bus monitors and drivers in Pickerington, Ohio, can't include the employee who punishes students who act out on the bus, a National Labor Relations Board official ruled, saying the student discipline coordinator's role is too different from the drivers' and monitors'.
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August 31, 2026
An International Longshoremen's Association local violated federal labor law by failing to notify a member of the internal charges filed against him and using "questionable evidence" to make its case, a National Labor Relations Board judge found.
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August 31, 2026
Seven dispatchers at the Metropolitan Transit Authority for Erie, Pennsylvania, are not "supervisors" exempt from membership in the authority's labor union, since their roles in scheduling overtime or reporting rule infractions were constrained by their contract and only occasionally crossed the line into supervision, the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court ruled Monday.
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August 31, 2026
This summer, hundreds of New York City public defenders met their managers at the bargaining table armed with the same strategies their union peers used a year ago, though they found a changed financial and political landscape.
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August 31, 2026
Microsoft did not violate federal labor law by firing two workers who organized a protest of the war in Gaza at the company's Washington headquarters because the event didn't have a clear enough tie to their work, a National Labor Relations Board attorney said in a newly released advice memo.
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August 31, 2026
A food services contractor at a U.S. Army base in Washington state violated federal labor law by firing a worker who requested a union representative after her manager angrily called her into a meeting, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled.
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August 31, 2026
Amazon has urged a New York federal court to toss the remaining claims in a lawsuit alleging the company illegally called the police on labor demonstrations after its workers' union affiliated with the Teamsters, arguing that the allegations failed to demonstrate the area the protestors were occupying was public property.
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August 31, 2026
A Michigan federal court has granted final approval of a nearly $3.8 million settlement resolving overtime claims brought by current and former hourly production employees at Fiat Chrysler's U.S. facilities, with $1.26 million of that amount going to attorney fees.
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August 28, 2026
The federal government Friday urged the Ninth Circuit to reverse a finding that the U.S. Office of Personnel Management wrongfully fired 25,000 probationary workers shortly after President Donald Trump took office, arguing that the OPM was operating well within its statutory authority, the district court lacked jurisdiction, and the workers are "simply out of luck."
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August 28, 2026
National Labor Relations Board general counsel Crystal Carey has been circumspect about her policy priorities as she focuses on cutting a hefty case backlog she inherited, but a new memo laying out precedents she's targeting for change aligns with practitioners' expectations for the Republican chief prosecutor.
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August 28, 2026
A West Virginia convenience store pushed out a deli clerk after she requested a coworker's opinion about whether a pay offer was fair, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, holding Go-Mart Inc. responsible for violating the National Labor Relations Act.
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August 28, 2026
A National Labor Relations Board official on Friday rejected a Teamsters local's bid to add a student discipline coordinator to an existing bargaining unit at an Ohio student transportation company, ruling that the coordinator doesn't share a sufficient community of interest with the workers in the unit.
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August 28, 2026
The National Labor Relations Board upheld an agency judge's decision finding that an Illinois construction equipment company lawfully fired a field service technician one day before his probationary period ended, rejecting claims that the company's "continued investment" in his training showed the termination was pretextual.
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August 28, 2026
A Nevada waste-disposal service violated federal labor law by snubbing the union that its drivers brought in two years ago in various ways, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, saying the company owed the Teamsters local recognition, information, implementation of the union contract and bargaining over workplace decisions.
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August 28, 2026
This week the Second Circuit will consider the United Auto Workers' challenge to a trial court decision that declined to enforce an arbitration award requiring Ford to rehire a pipefitter it fired just days after reinstating him at an arbitrator's direction. Here, Law360 looks at this and other cases on the docket in the Empire State.
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August 28, 2026
In the week ahead, attorneys should watch for a hearing on a deal to resolve a proposed wage and hour class action against furniture retailer Wayfair. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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August 27, 2026
A group of pilots is doing its best to fulfill Hawaiian Airlines' discovery request in a legal dispute over COVID-19 vaccine mandate exemptions, the pilots told a Hawaii federal judge, asking him not to sanction them for taking time to redact and format a Telegram group chat.
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August 27, 2026
The Trump administration outlined Thursday how federal agencies should incorporate artificial intelligence into the hiring process, suggesting that the technology can be used to craft job descriptions and evaluate applicants with human oversight.
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August 27, 2026
A National Labor Relations Board official has set a union representation election for workers at a security contractor, saying an existing labor contract with a competing union did not block the vote because negotiations over a new contract meant the deal did not automatically renew.
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August 27, 2026
A casino in Springfield, Massachusetts, is challenging its card dealers' unionization, arguing that the D.C. Circuit should nix the results of a 2024 UNITE HERE representation election because of the conduct of the union's designated observer.
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August 27, 2026
The National Labor Relations Board has held that Northeastern University did not violate federal labor law by refusing to bargain with a campus police union, vacating a 2024 board decision after the First Circuit found certain employees in the certified unit were supervisors who were ineligible to unionize.
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August 27, 2026
The National Labor Relations Board urged a California federal court to bar a state law allowing the state labor board to perform certain duties if the national board cannot, arguing that recent decisions in other cases "confirmed" the court should find the law is preempted.
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August 26, 2026
New York has become the focal point of the Teamsters' efforts to organize drivers who deliver Amazon packages under third-party contracts, an emphasis on state-level advocacy that experts said could be a path forward for unions contending with a less favorable National Labor Relations Board.
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August 26, 2026
A musicians union local sent statements to the Utah Symphony and Opera demanding that a tenured trombone musician be discharged and failed to properly represent him when he challenged his subsequent suspension and termination, according to a complaint filed Wednesday in Utah federal court.
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August 26, 2026
The Seventh Circuit refused Wednesday to revive a union fund's challenge to an Arkansas rule making health plans disclose pharmacy compensation and pay fees, backing a lower court's holding that the rule was in line with a 2020 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that permitted state cost regulations on pharmacy benefit managers.