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May 28, 2025
The National Labor Relations Board "thumb[ed] its nose" at employers' speech rights by ruling that Starbucks threatened workers and using the case to reverse precedent letting employers opine that a union would come between them and workers, the company told the Ninth Circuit.
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May 28, 2025
A social services nonprofit in California was within its rights to fire an employee who supported organizing efforts with a Service Employees International Union local, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, but broke the law when it told the worker union discussions must not happen in the office.
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May 27, 2025
The First Circuit quashed a National Labor Relations Board decision ordering Northeastern University in Boston to negotiate with a union representing campus police department employees, determining the board strayed from precedent when finding sergeants are not supervisors under federal labor law.
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May 27, 2025
A Washington federal judge seemed troubled by the government's February move to rip up a union deal covering Transportation Security Administration workers, but didn't tip her hand at a hearing Tuesday as to whether she thinks the American Federation of Government Employees deserves an injunction.
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May 27, 2025
A United Food and Commercial Workers local and a Colorado healthcare group affiliated with Kaiser Permanente must resolve their understaffing dispute in arbitration, a Colorado federal judge ruled Tuesday, saying the evidence presented at a six-day bench trial revealed that the fight is arbitrable.
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May 27, 2025
Stellantis and a United Auto Workers affiliate representing the company's Denver parts distribution center have agreed to drop their dispute over a December strike authorization vote, according to a joint stipulation for dismissal filed by the parties in Colorado federal court.
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May 27, 2025
Connecticut's municipal employee pension system unlawfully barred a group of firefighters with over two decades of service from participating in a deferred retirement program because they're under 55 years old, the workers and their union claimed in a federal lawsuit.
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May 27, 2025
A split Fifth Circuit panel has denied the National Labor Relations Board's request to enforce a 2013 back pay order against a Louisiana plumbing company, with the majority saying it's unfair to make a mom-and-pop shop that's recovering from two floods pay out roughly $100,000 over a decade-old matter.
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May 27, 2025
United Airlines and the Teamsters can appeal a lower court order concluding that the Railway Labor Act gives individual airline employees the right to take their grievances to arbitration despite the union's objection, a California federal judge ruled, saying a Ninth Circuit ruling could end the case.
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May 27, 2025
A seasoned BigLaw attorney who left Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC five years ago to move into an in-house legal position at Vice Media has rejoined the labor and employment law firm Tuesday as a shareholder.
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May 27, 2025
A union representing 28,000 United Airlines flight attendants has struck a tentative deal with the airline on a five-year employment contract, hailing the agreement as a "historic" pact that comes with a pay bump and other benefits for its workers.
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May 23, 2025
This past year, a handful of attorneys secured billions of dollars in settlements and judgments for both classes and individual plaintiffs against massive companies and organizations like Facebook, Dell, the National Association of Realtors, Johnson & Johnson, UFC and Credit Suisse, earning them recognition as Law360's Titans of the Plaintiffs Bar for 2025.
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May 23, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to endorse a freeze on the reinstatements of two fired labor officials bodes poorly for precedent permitting Congress to insulate certain agencies from presidential control, but the justices signaled that the Federal Reserve will remain above politics. Here, Law360 looks at takeaways from Thursday's ruling.
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May 23, 2025
A California federal judge has extended her block of President Donald Trump's executive order directing layoffs at federal agencies, saying a coalition of unions, nonprofits and cities has shown it is likely to succeed in showing the order exceeded the president's authority.
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May 23, 2025
Cannabis company Curaleaf violated federal labor law by laying off store associates at its Illinois facilities without bargaining with their union and must reinstate them, a National Labor Relations Board judge has held.
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May 23, 2025
A Boston commuter rail operator is refusing to resume arbitrating a raise dispute with a Teamsters unit after a Massachusetts federal judge said only an arbitration board could resolve a key issue, the union said, asking the judge to clarify that his decision compelled the parties to reenter arbitration.
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May 23, 2025
This week, the Second Circuit will consider a New York speech therapist's attempt to revive her lawsuit claiming she was discriminated against on the basis of her race when her school district fired her in 2022. Here, Law360 looks at this and other cases on the docket in New York.
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May 23, 2025
The state of Missouri urged a federal judge to reject Starbucks' bid to dismiss its suit claiming its diversity policies discriminate based on race and gender, arguing it has put forward enough evidence showing how the company's practices have harmed its citizens to keep the case in court.
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May 23, 2025
A flight attendant urged the Fifth Circuit to reconsider its move to axe a contempt order against Southwest Airlines in her wrongful termination suit, arguing it shouldn't be scrapped just because the panel took issue with court-ordered religious liberty training for Southwest attorneys.
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May 22, 2025
Major League Baseball's pension plan asked a Florida federal judge to toss a request for surviving spouse benefits filed by a woman who married retired Cincinnati Reds pitcher Tom Browning seven weeks before he died, saying the length of the marriage disqualifies her from collecting the benefits.
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May 22, 2025
A California federal judge indicated Thursday she'll likely convert her temporary restraining order into a preliminary injunction against President Donald Trump's executive order to reduce the federal workforce, saying the law "seems clear" that presidents cannot issue large-scale agency reductions without congressional approval and "to hold otherwise" would contradict nine previous presidents and 21 congresses.
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May 22, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled two fired members of the National Labor Relations Board and the Merit Systems Protection Board cannot return to work while they challenge President Donald Trump's authority to fire them without cause, handing the president a win in his crusade against a 90-year-old precedent limiting his power to fire employees at independent agencies.
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May 22, 2025
A former attorney at the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is now senior counsel at Katz Banks Kumin LLP in Washington, D.C., the firm announced, saying she will use her experience to advocate for federal workers navigating changes brought on by the Trump administration.
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May 22, 2025
Seyfarth Shaw LLP added a partner to its labor and employment department from Perkins Coie LLP who says the firm's resources will help him tackle the growing number of wage and hour class actions Washington state has been witnessing.
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May 22, 2025
Massachusetts' top court on Thursday found that an employer may still face a discrimination claim for an alleged retaliatory action for union activity, even if the move left the worker with a pay bump.