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November 24, 2025
A Florida public transit operator has accused a bus drivers union of withholding its signature on a safety plan that the Jacksonville Transit Authority must submit annually to obtain federal funding, asking a court to compel the union to either sign the plan or arbitrate its disagreements with it.
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November 24, 2025
UPS urged a National Labor Relations Board judge to find its rule restricting workers' creation of workplace recordings is legal under the board's current test of employee handbook rules while telegraphing a challenge to that test.
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November 24, 2025
The U.S. Department of Labor rolled out an illegal rule related to the wage rate for H-2A agricultural workers that will push American farmworkers out of work, the United Farm Workers union told a California federal court.
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November 21, 2025
New York City and Chicago are mulling novel measures that could boost unions' efforts to organize what are known as last-mile drivers by forcing Amazon and other shippers to directly hire the contract drivers they lean on to move goods from warehouses to residents in these populous cities.
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November 21, 2025
Fuel and oil drivers at a suburban Chicago petroleum company can vote on whether to join the Teamsters, a National Labor Relations Board official said, rejecting the employer's argument that the petitioned-for bargaining unit should have been broader.
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November 21, 2025
A Service Employees International Union unit said an Ohio hospital must comply with an arbitrator's order to rescind its write-up of a worker who tested positive for cannabis use after a random drug test, telling a federal court Thursday in a suit that a prior effort to clean a worker's slate was successful.
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November 21, 2025
The U.S. has asked Mexico to conduct a fast-track labor investigation under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement after receiving reports that a Mexican company may be denying workers the right to collective bargaining, U.S. trade officials said.
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November 21, 2025
In the next two weeks, attorneys should keep an eye on Ninth Circuit oral arguments regarding whether a Native American tribe's sovereignty shields it from a labor arbitration award. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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November 21, 2025
The Second Circuit refused Friday to revive a New York Teamsters worker's proposed class action challenging his pension plan's fees and investments, backing a lower court's holding that his claims weren't detailed enough to keep the case in court.
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November 21, 2025
A recent Washington, D.C., federal court decision undermines a nursing home's bid to stop the National Labor Relations Board's case against it, the agency argued as it urged the D.C. Circuit to join other courts in holding that federal labor law forbids judges to enjoin the agency's cases.
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November 21, 2025
A Teamsters local dodged a Black UPS worker's suit claiming the union discouraged him from complaining about on-the-job race discrimination and interfered with his medical leave, with a Mississippi federal judge ruling the worker hadn't shown he was treated worse than other union members.
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November 20, 2025
The Ninth Circuit may soon resume deciding whether the National Labor Relations Board erred by adjusting its approach to union elections and bargaining orders two years ago, as board prosecutors asked the court to lift a stay in Cemex Construction Materials Pacific LLC's appeal of the game-changing 2023 board ruling.
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November 20, 2025
The National Labor Relations Board has asked a California federal judge to block a new state law allowing the state's labor board to perform NLRB functions when the federal agency lacks a quorum, saying the NLRB will be irreparably harmed if the law is allowed to take effect in 2026.
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November 20, 2025
The Trump administration has implored a D.C. federal judge to reject an effort by unions representing workers at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the National Weather Service to halt an executive order ending their collective bargaining rights, emphasizing the action is within the president's authority.
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November 20, 2025
The Teamsters announced Thursday that they have for the first time organized a unit of Amazon truckers who drive goods to the company's warehouses, extending the union's effort to organize the mega-retailer's workers into a new segment.
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November 20, 2025
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette urged the Third Circuit to pause its obligation to restore workers' union healthcare plan while it challenges a recent ruling that its shift to a company plan violated federal labor law, saying the order threatens to impose costs it can't recover if it wins its challenge.
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November 20, 2025
Federal workers' unions asked a Massachusetts federal judge to block the federal government from asking potential hires how they'd help advance President Donald Trump's policy goals, saying that what they call the loyalty question is part of the administration's attempt to snub nonpartisan civil servants in favor of ideologues.
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November 19, 2025
A bipartisan collection of current and former government officials has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold a 90-year-old ruling that empowers Congress to prohibit the president from firing certain agency officials at will, claiming the precedent has roots that date back to the country's founding and reflects key separation of powers principles.
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November 19, 2025
A Miami longshoreman lacks support for a complaint accusing his union of turning against him after he repeatedly reported a co-worker for insubordination, the union told a Florida federal judge, saying the longshoreman's claims of breach of the duty of fair representation and infliction of emotional distress are thin.
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November 19, 2025
A Texas bankruptcy judge approved Maverick Gaming for a Chapter 11 sale of its fabrication business Wednesday, saying the company found the best deal for the assets even though the sale is to an insider.
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November 19, 2025
A New Jersey construction company wants to delay bidding for part of the $16 billion Hudson Tunnel Project, claiming in a federal lawsuit that the multistate commission overseeing the project unlawfully barred employing the United Steelworkers union currently representing the company's workers.
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November 19, 2025
A National Labor Relations Board official gave drivers for food distributor Sysco the go-ahead for a vote on joining the Teamsters in the first such decision since the government shutdown, approving the union's call to exclude nondrivers from the proposed unit.
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November 19, 2025
Only the U.S. secretary of labor can sue to enforce a federal ban on employers spending money to promote candidates for union office, a Seventh Circuit panel ruled Wednesday, upholding an Illinois federal judge's dismissal of litigation filed by a Chicago teachers union that attempted to enforce the ban.
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November 18, 2025
The Third Circuit's ruling affirming that the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette bargained in bad faith before imposing a regressive contract on newsroom workers in 2020 highlights the complexity of effectuating the National Labor Relations Board's remedies, which are often enforced years after the violations they address.
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November 18, 2025
Trader Joe's is fighting a National Labor Relations Board judge's conclusion that it violated federal labor law by snubbing Trader Joe's United at a Louisville, Kentucky, store while it challenges the union's certification, saying the judge should have tabled the refusal-to-bargain case until the board resolves the certification challenge.