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October 22, 2025
The ousted U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board chair has encouraged the U.S. Supreme Court to include a caveat for "legislative courts" if it overturns precedent that empowers Congress to limit the president's authority to fire certain agency officials, but opponents of independent agencies want a clean break from the status quo.
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October 22, 2025
A bill intended to ease initial labor contracts by letting arbitration panels break stalemates between unions and employers would undermine the value of unions if workers don't get to vote on the resulting pact, a striking Boeing worker said Wednesday at a Senate labor committee hearing.
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October 22, 2025
Eight unions asked a California federal judge to step up the level of protection she provided to thousands of federal workers' jobs during the government shutdown, urging her to expand the number of jobs she's protecting and turn a temporary restraining order into a preliminary injunction.
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October 21, 2025
The National Labor Relations Board correctly applied its 2022 Thryv ruling when it ordered Macy's to pay heightened remedies after refusing to rehire strikers, a split Ninth Circuit panel reaffirmed, shooting down a request to reconsider a split panel decision from January while amending the decision slightly.
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October 21, 2025
The Third Circuit said Tuesday that it had revived charges against a union representative at a telecommunications company after finding that federal prosecutors sufficiently alleged that the rep submitted false claims to a pharmacy benefits manager for medically unnecessary testing and medicine.
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October 21, 2025
The ongoing federal government shutdown has been a mixed bag for parties that rely on the National Labor Relations Board, tacking modest delays on the lengthy timelines for resolving unfair labor practice cases but closing off a path for workers to unionize by stalling speedier representation election cases.
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October 21, 2025
A New Jersey federal judge should keep overseeing a $28 million Employee Retirement Income Security Act lawsuit against a Teamsters local and the local's health insurance fund, a roofing and siding manufacturer argued, telling the judge that the dismissal argument lodged by the fund and local is flawed.
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October 21, 2025
A suit accusing United Airlines of conspiring to underpay workers is related to another case in which flight attendants are bringing a grievance to arbitration without the Teamsters' support, a California federal judge ruled, turning down a worker's arguments that the cases didn't overlap.
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October 20, 2025
Workers and unions on Monday petitioned the D.C. Circuit to review a new U.S. Department of Transportation rule that blocks certain immigrants from holding commercial driver's licenses despite having authorization to work in the U.S.
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October 20, 2025
The operators of a New York City hotel have failed to fully pay a roughly $1.1 million arbitration award stemming from a wage and benefits dispute, a hotel and hospitality workers union said, urging a New York federal court to order the entities to comply with the award.
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October 20, 2025
Federal prosecutors in California have downgraded from a felony to a misdemeanor an obstruction charge against the Service Employees International Union's California head, who was arrested in June during a protest at an immigration raid.
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October 20, 2025
A California federal judge who blocked the Trump administration from laying off workers from two unions representing thousands of federal workers has expanded her temporary restraining order to include three more unions and also clarified that the order covered workers with union contracts that the administration is seeking to ditch.
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October 20, 2025
The Third Circuit conflicted with U.S. Supreme Court precedent when it scrapped a $3.5 million win for a pipe fitters and plumbers union that found a commercial real estate company failed to properly factor overtime in pension contributions, the union argued as it asked the Circuit Court to rethink its opinion.
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October 17, 2025
The D.C. Circuit said Friday it will not delay briefing in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau layoffs case as the government shutdown drags on, rejecting a Trump administration request for a deadline extension tied to the lapse in federal funding.
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October 17, 2025
SkyWest Airlines' in-house employee group can't support its allegation that a flight attendant and a union organizer conspired to violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the Association of Flight Attendants said, asking a Utah federal judge Friday to slice the counterclaim from union-brought litigation against the group and SkyWest.
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October 17, 2025
Federal labor law entitles a pilot to arbitrate a firing grievance his Teamsters local declined to pursue, an Alaska federal judge said, rejecting the union's argument that its collective bargaining agreement with a cargo company precluded his individual arbitration bid.
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October 17, 2025
A Black electrical worker's claim that he was illegally pushed out of his job for reporting race discrimination on the job should survive, but allegations he made against his union for not grieving his termination should be tossed, a Tennessee federal magistrate judge has recommended.
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October 17, 2025
Workers at an Indianapolis casino went on strike to demand that their employer recognize a Teamsters unit as their representative Friday, the same day they were originally scheduled to vote in a National Labor Relations Board election before the federal government shut down.
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October 17, 2025
A Black employee of a General Motors subsidiary can't support her lawsuit alleging the company did nothing to stop a white co-worker from stalking and harassing her, the company told a New York federal court Friday, arguing she failed to show the colleague's conduct was tied to race, not personal relations.
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October 17, 2025
An Illinois federal judge should compel a Chicagoland excavation company to pay a union scholarship fund about $180,000, the union argued, saying the judge should enforce a grievance committee's decision and not let the company wriggle out of paying by creating a nonunion alter ego.
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October 17, 2025
The federal court system has run out of money and will scale back operations beginning Monday as a result of the ongoing government shutdown, possibly leading to case delays.
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October 17, 2025
The nation's two biggest dialysis providers are looking to get a price-fixing class action accusing them of carving up geographic markets tossed, telling a Colorado federal judge that similar pricing is a natural competitive outcome in a highly concentrated market like that for dialysis, not evidence of a conspiracy.
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October 17, 2025
A Massachusetts federal judge has sent back to arbitration a wage-related dispute between a maintenance workers unit of the Teamsters and the company that operates greater Boston's commuter rail system, saying he recently found he has the authority to do so.
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October 17, 2025
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for Ninth Circuit oral arguments in a former California state court executive officer's race discrimination case. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in that state.
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October 16, 2025
Three labor unions sued the Trump administration in New York federal court Thursday to stop a surveillance program they allege scours online activity for viewpoints the administration doesn't like and leverages the threat of immigration enforcement to coerce silence.