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December 11, 2025
An administrative law judge has determined that Starbucks didn't violate the National Labor Relations Act when it surveilled employees' union activities, more strictly enforced its punctuality policy and disciplined a union employee at a store that illegally fired seven activists in 2022.
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December 11, 2025
A New Jersey federal judge said Thursday she won't lift a deadline to bid on a railway-construction project associated with building a new tunnel to New York City, saying a New Jersey construction company isn't likely to win its challenge to a project labor agreement tied to the venture.
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December 11, 2025
Labor attorneys have spent the last year in a holding pattern as they counsel clients on dealing with a National Labor Relations Board that has gone the bulk of 2025 without enough members to decide cases.
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December 11, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to take up a case about federal jurisdiction over the final say on arbitration awards is a technical battleground that may reaffirm state court power over such agreements, including those involving wage and hour claims, experts say.
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December 11, 2025
The Railway Labor Act doesn't give airline workers the right to compel arbitration against their employers before a System Board of Adjustment if their union isn't representing them, a New York federal judge ruled, tossing a fired United Airlines technician's bid to compel arbitration without a Teamsters local's involvement.
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December 11, 2025
A cannabis company is urging a New Jersey federal court to pause an upcoming arbitration proceeding with a United Food and Commercial Workers local over its firing of several employees, claiming that it had been coerced into entering an agreement with the union by an unconstitutional state law.
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December 10, 2025
The U.S. solicitor general and the solicitor of labor said the U.S. Supreme Court needs to clarify that workers must back their suits targeting underperforming retirement funds with proper comparison proof, urging the justices to take up a case taking aim at Parker-Hannifin Corp.'s retirement plan management.
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December 10, 2025
A D.C. federal judge declined to immediately reinstate collective bargaining agreements for U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and National Weather Service employees Wednesday, saying the case brought by the workers was more "complicated" and "difficult" than other federal worker bargaining suits he'd recently enjoined.
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December 10, 2025
The Association of Flight Attendants must keep facing allegations that it conspired with SkyWest workers to access confidential information held by SkyWest's employee group during an organizing drive, a Utah federal judge has ruled, preserving the SkyWest Inflight Association's conspiracy counterclaims against the Communications Workers of America-affiliated union.
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December 10, 2025
The U.S. Department of Justice told a Minnesota federal court that Minneapolis Public Schools has union-negotiated rules that give employees from underrepresented backgrounds an illegal leg up when decisions about layoffs are made.
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December 10, 2025
A Sixth Circuit panel on Wednesday probed a judge's inference that Michigan hospital workers would suffer without an order making their employer resume dealing with their union in the circuit's first National Labor Relations Board injunction case since the U.S. Supreme Court altered the courts' test last year.
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December 10, 2025
The Utah Legislature has voted to repeal a controversial bill that banned public-sector unions from collective bargaining, a move that comes after months of backlash from labor unions.
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December 10, 2025
The Fourth Circuit seemed disinclined Wednesday to reopen a dispute over lifetime retirement health and life insurance benefits from a proposed class of retired coal miners, as two judges knocked the coal company's attempt to pick apart the results of a seven-day bench trial that broadly favored them.
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December 10, 2025
A California federal judge who blocked State Department layoffs set for Dec. 5 should halt the government from dismissing any Education and State Department employees until Jan. 30, a union coalition argued, saying Congress set that timeline in its appropriations bill and the government is trying to defy it.
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December 09, 2025
A Seventh Circuit judge on Tuesday suggested Penske's push for the judicial review of trustees' internal decision-making was a "long and new stretch" in a dispute over whether a Teamsters pension plan had the power to expel a Penske bargaining unit in Dallas, questioning what law authorizes such scrutiny.
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December 09, 2025
An Ohio addiction treatment clinic's 2022 firing of a receptionist didn't violate federal labor law, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled Tuesday, finding that a pair of letters the receptionist co-signed about work conditions that year didn't factor into her dismissal.
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December 09, 2025
Federal labor law requires United Airlines Inc. flight attendants to arbitrate their proposed wage class action, the airline told a New Jersey federal court, saying resolution of the claims hinges on the parties' collective bargaining agreement.
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December 09, 2025
The Third Circuit's finding that federal labor law blocks courts from stopping National Labor Relations Board cases doesn't apply to a builder's bid to block an imminent bidding deadline on the lucrative Hudson Tunnel Project, the builder and a unionized employee told a New York federal judge.
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December 09, 2025
Workers at an Indianapolis casino have voted for representation by a Teamsters unit, ending a seven-week strike demanding that the casino recognize the unit as their representative.
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December 09, 2025
A Third Circuit panel is standing by its decision to let an injunction against the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette remain active while the newspaper appeals, saying it won't reconsider its Nov. 24 refusal to stay an injunction requiring the paper to restore its workers' pre-2020 benefits.
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December 08, 2025
The Eleventh Circuit on Monday vacated a ruling that awarded survivors benefits to the widow of a railroad engineer who died after yearslong exposure to coal dust, finding the U.S. Department of Labor review board wrongly determined that a preparation plant was part of an underground coal mine.
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December 08, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court's conservative majority pushed back Monday against the 90-year-old precedent permitting the removal only for cause of Federal Trade Commission members, and perhaps those serving other independent agencies, calling those safeguards a "dried husk" and wondering where to draw the line for protected agencies.
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December 08, 2025
A Manhattan hotel operator must hand over $4.1 million to a hotel and hospital workers union, a New York federal judge ruled, finding that the operator has failed to respond to accusations that it owes money to multiple health benefit funds.
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December 08, 2025
Bucks County Community College in eastern Pennsylvania can't move ahead with a $2 million expansion of its HVAC training program because a potential bidder convinced a majority of the Commonwealth Court on Friday that the school's preexisting "public labor agreement" was likely discriminatory to nonunion workers and met no urgent need.
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December 08, 2025
A Teamsters local asked a Michigan federal judge to remove it as a defendant in a Black construction worker's bias lawsuit, saying it decided not to arbitrate the employee's firing grievance not because of his race, but because it didn't think it could win.