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July 17, 2026
An International Longshoremen's Association local has asked a Florida federal court to toss a worker's lawsuit alleging that the union failed to investigate her sexual harassment allegations and blacklisted her from jobs, arguing that she failed to adequately support her claims.
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July 17, 2026
Hundreds of public defenders and social workers in Brooklyn and Queens have gone on strike, with the possibility of more walkouts to come as legal aid providers continue to negotiate with their unions.
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July 17, 2026
A former Baltimore Ravens linebacker has asked a Texas federal court to keep his lawsuit alleging that the National Football League Players Association and its attorney dropped his knee injury dispute with the team without his consent, arguing that he was never told his grievance in the disagreement had been withdrawn.
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July 17, 2026
In the week ahead, attorneys should watch for a hearing on a dismissal bid in a religious discrimination suit against the City and County of San Francisco. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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July 17, 2026
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. and trustees of a union bakery drivers' pension fund told a New York federal judge Friday that they're working to settle a dispute over the agency's denials of $132 million in bailout funds from a program that Congress enacted during the coronavirus pandemic.
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July 17, 2026
The National Labor Relations Board closed its case Friday in a strike dispute that yielded the U.S. Supreme Court's 2023 refinement of its federal labor preemption doctrine after the sides reached a deal.
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July 16, 2026
A Texas federal judge had stern words for both BNSF Railway Co. and two unions that are tangled in a labor dispute with the company, saying in a Thursday hearing that federal district courts do not exist to "provide leverage" in union negotiations.
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July 16, 2026
The nephew of former Philadelphia union leader John "Johnny Doc" Dougherty has been assigned 40 hours of community service for violating his probation in an extortion case by going on a surprise trip to Disney World.
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July 16, 2026
A union health fund told a New York federal judge that two affiliated aviation services entities cannot avoid required benefit contributions for eight full-time workers by failing to enroll them and then arguing that the resulting lack of coverage excused payment, according to a court filing.
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July 16, 2026
National Labor Relations Board prosecutors urged an agency judge to find that a trucking company committed multiple federal labor law violations before illegally withdrawing recognition from a union, arguing that the company's conduct during bargaining showed it was seeking to end its relationship with the union "at any cost."
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July 16, 2026
A Pennsylvania appeals panel on Thursday said a lower court was wrong to scrap an arbitrator's conclusion that a school district violated a collective bargaining agreement by forcing a teacher recovering from surgery to use leave guaranteed by federal law to cover her absence.
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July 16, 2026
Employer-side labor and employment law firm Fisher Phillips has announced a planned expansion into St. Louis, Missouri, along with the hiring of a former Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP partner to be regional managing partner for the prospective outpost.
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July 16, 2026
President Donald Trump's nominee to become secretary of labor faced questions Thursday from U.S. Senate committee about the U.S. Department of Labor's proposed wage and hour rules, with Democrats indicating that their support might not come easily.
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July 16, 2026
A new California federal judge has taken over from the one originally assigned the lawsuit from Democratic state attorneys general challenging Paramount Skydance's $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, putting the case in front of the same judge hearing challenges from consumers and the Writers Guild of America.
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July 16, 2026
The Ninth Circuit withdrew a call for briefs on whether to rehear a case in which a panel rejected challenges to the National Labor Relations Board's constitutionality after the U.S. Supreme Court passed on reviewing the agency's expanded remedies.
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July 16, 2026
The National Labor Relations Board has urged a Nevada federal judge to dismiss a casino operator's claims challenging the constitutionality of the agency's structure, arguing that the operator failed to show the removal protections for NLRB members or administrative law judges caused it harm.
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July 15, 2026
Federal appeals courts had wide-ranging successes and struggles during the U.S. Supreme Court's recently completed term: One had its best showing in years following its worst showing in years; one felt déjà vu after recently starting to find favor with the justices; and one saw its reputation for independence occupy a rare role in the Supreme Court spotlight.
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July 15, 2026
The National Labor Relations Board asked the Fifth Circuit on Wednesday to enforce its order certifying the Ironworkers as the representative for a group of factory employees at Portillo's Hot Dogs LLC, arguing that it correctly rejected claims that a nonprofit's alleged promises to workers tainted the representation election results.
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July 15, 2026
The clock is ticking for Congress to avoid another quorum lapse at the National Labor Relations Board after the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee confirmed the president's nominees to two seats Wednesday with only a few weeks before lawmakers' August recess.
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July 15, 2026
The National Labor Relations Board panel on Wednesday put out the call for stakeholder feedback on the application of its rules for bargaining unit makeup in acute care hospitals to proposed bargaining units that span acute and nonacute care facilities.
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July 15, 2026
The Third Circuit has vacated a district court's voidance of an arbitration award ordering a nonprofit organization to pay a reinstated employee for the overtime shifts she missed while suspended, ruling the district court wrongly rejected the arbitrator's interpretation of the organization's collective bargaining agreement with a Teamsters local.
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July 15, 2026
The National Labor Relations Board stood by a regional official's decision to pause a push to dissolve a Starbucks bargaining unit amid claims the company's alleged disregard for the union sapped workers' free choice, with one member calling for the agency to fast-track cases based on so-called blocking charges.
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July 15, 2026
A Michigan nursing home operator violated federal labor law by telling two workers not to talk about their pay and firing them after they threatened to take their complaints to the National Labor Relations Board, an agency judge has found.
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July 14, 2026
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has pushed back on an arbitrator holding that the agency violated union agreements when ending telework arrangements, saying the arbitrator ignored management rights provisions and added her own terms to the contract.
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July 14, 2026
The American Federation of Government Employees is accusing the Federal Bureau of Prisons of unlawfully suspending the leader of a local affiliate for speaking to the press about the government shutdown and the agency's cancellation of its collective bargaining agreement with the affiliate, according to a lawsuit filed in Pennsylvania federal court Tuesday.