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October 09, 2025
An engineers' union representing NASA employees has challenged President Donald Trump's executive order limiting workers' bargaining rights at certain federal agencies, arguing in D.C. federal court that he violated the union's rights under the First and Fifth Amendments by ending its longstanding presence at the agency.
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October 09, 2025
A Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers & Grain Millers union local has urged the Sixth Circuit to keep an order to arbitrate an employee promotion grievance with snack company Kellanova, claiming the dispute is still arbitrable under the terms of an expired collective bargaining agreement.
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October 09, 2025
An anti-union group has thrown its weight behind a cannabis retailer's challenge to a California law that requires marijuana businesses to sign labor peace agreements with unions, arguing before the Ninth Circuit that the law is preempted by the National Labor Relations Act.
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October 08, 2025
A National Labor Relations Board order compelling Nexstar to bargain with workers at a New York news station should be vacated, the company told the Second Circuit, raising objections including that an NLRB agent mishandled the representation election and that the union bribed workers with lower dues.
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October 08, 2025
A D.C. federal judge has rejected the Trump administration's claim that suits by unions representing employees of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office challenging an executive order ending their collective bargaining rights are not related to similar cases before him.
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October 08, 2025
A major labor organization, the AFL-CIO, has come out against a Republican draft bill on crypto market structure, saying the draft lacks "meaningful safeguards."
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October 08, 2025
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and several other business groups warned a New York federal court of the risks associated with the state's decision to expand the powers of its Public Employment Relations Board, arguing that the amendment would "sow chaos in national labor markets."
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October 08, 2025
Teamsters President Sean O'Brien urged a U.S. Senate labor committee at a hearing Wednesday to focus on piecemeal fixes to labor law — such as a pending bill to expedite union contracts and an upcoming plan to inform workers of their labor rights — over broader, doomed reforms.
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October 08, 2025
The Second Circuit appeared unlikely Wednesday to revive a New York Teamsters worker's proposed class action alleging mismanagement by the caretakers of his multiemployer pension plan, as multiple judges seemed to doubt that the complaint contained enough evidence of a deficient process to manage fees and investments.
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October 07, 2025
A group of retirees and unions that recently won a life insurance benefits class action against Alcoa have asked an Indiana federal judge to compel the aluminum producer to cover their $1.5 million in legal fees, costs and expenses.
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October 07, 2025
The Second Circuit will hear from Teamsters looking to revive a proposed class action alleging mismanagement of a multiemployer pension plan, while Alcoa will ask the Seventh Circuit to overturn a ruling requiring the aluminum maker to cover union retirees' healthcare for life. Here, Law360 looks at four arguments that benefits attorneys should have on their radar this month.
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October 07, 2025
United Airlines and the Teamsters are both seeking an early exit from a technician's suit alleging that the union failed to pursue his grievance accusing United of violating a raise policy in its labor contract, arguing that his claims shouldn't be resolved in California federal court.
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October 07, 2025
Rutgers University's medical school must reinstate a union-represented psychiatry professor whom it fired after she refused to take on a new job task, but it doesn't have to cover the legal fees the union incurred fighting for her reinstatement, a New Jersey state appeals court ruled.
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October 07, 2025
The federal government can't stay a builders association's case challenging an executive order that requires union-favoring labor agreements for expensive government contracts, the Eleventh Circuit ruled, declining a request made in light of the government shutdown.
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October 07, 2025
A former United Airlines flight attendant will avoid sanctions in his now-ended suit seeking unpaid wages, a New York federal judge ruled, saying he didn't abuse the judicial process even if his evidence that state law applied to his claims was weak.
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October 07, 2025
A firefighters' union has dropped a 2023 lawsuit in Massachusetts state court accusing a fire safety organization of ignoring the cancer risk of "forever chemicals" in maintaining safety standards that continued to call for their use in firefighting gear.
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October 06, 2025
The Sixth Circuit declined on Monday to revive a former paper mill fire chief's suit alleging his union representative refused in bad faith to contest his termination for allegedly threatening coworkers, finding the representative made his decision after getting reports from officials that the appellant's colleagues felt unsafe around him.
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October 06, 2025
A California federal judge should block the Trump administration from carrying out its threats to use the government shutdown as an occasion to fire another large swath of federal workers, two unions argued, requesting a temporary restraining order that would protect the jobs of the federal workers they represent.
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October 06, 2025
A coalition of the labor and solar energy industry players on Monday alleged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency violated the Constitution and federal law by canceling a $7 billion program providing solar equipment to low-income households.
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October 06, 2025
A nonunion employee organization at SkyWest urged a Utah federal court to preserve its counterclaims accusing the Association of Flight Attendants, a union organizer and former flight attendants of conspiring to violate the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in their organizing efforts, arguing that the group adequately pled its claims.
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October 06, 2025
Amtrak and a labor union have agreed to settle a Black conductor's suit alleging she was blocked from securing senior union committee assignments out of bias against her race, age and gender, according to a Monday docket entry in Connecticut federal court.
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October 06, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to review a Fourth Circuit decision concluding that Maryland wasn't contractually bound to provide benefits to employees upon retirement, turning away a case that challenged the state's transition of retirees' prescription drug benefits from a state subsidy to Medicare.
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October 06, 2025
The U.S. Department of Education violated its workers' freedom of speech by altering their out-of-office email messages to blame the government shutdown on Democrats, the workers' union claimed in a complaint filed in Washington, D.C., federal court.
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October 06, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court will not take up an Oregon distillery's challenge to how federal courts weigh whether to affirm National Labor Relations Board decisions, declining Monday to place a case on its docket that questioned what is known as the substantial evidence standard of review.
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October 06, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court refused a request on Monday to review baseball's century-old exemption from antitrust law in a case from players accusing Major League Baseball and its teams of colluding to pay minor leaguers "poverty level" wages.