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July 02, 2026
A National Labor Relations Board official has approved a petition for pharmacists at a Washington state hospital to vote on unionizing, although he agreed with the hospital that the bargaining unit must include additional pharmacists the union had not sought to represent.
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July 02, 2026
A National Labor Relations Board official gave Madison Square Garden broadcast technicians the go-ahead Thursday for a vote to dissolve their union, saying decertification is fair game because the contract extension workers labored under was too short to bar a petition.
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July 02, 2026
A.Y. Strauss LLC announced a new chair of labor and employment law on Thursday with the addition of an employment litigator who was head of employment at Lindabury McCormick Estabrook & Cooper PC.
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July 02, 2026
A software company violated federal labor law by firing a worker who mocked its co-CEO as out-of-touch in a company chat following a discussion about controversial personnel changes, a National Labor Relations Board judge said.
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July 01, 2026
The union local representing workers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center can't join its parent union's lawsuit against the Trump administration to save a NASA library, a D.C. federal judge ruled, denying the local's bid to intervene to obtain an injunction protecting the Goddard Information and Collaboration Center.
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July 01, 2026
The first half of 2026 saw federal courts increase their scrutiny of the National Labor Relations Board’s decisions, while the agency tinkered within Biden-era policy as it awaits the confirmation of a third Republican member. Here, Law360 looks at some of the most significant labor law decisions that came out in the first half of the year.
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July 01, 2026
Several unions have challenged a new rule from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that rescinded changes made to a federal grant program that helps low-income families pay for childcare, according to a complaint filed in Washington federal court.
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July 01, 2026
The U.S. Department of Labor's lack of controls over information sharing between subagencies and nongovernmental entities, including law firms and legal advocacy organizations, may have unfairly advantaged those parties with privileged investigative information, an agency watchdog reported, though use of the practice has dropped off.
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July 01, 2026
The National Labor Relations Board preserved an agency official's finding that a staffing firm and a shuttle bus operator at Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport are joint employers of a group of bus drivers and customer service representatives, finding Tuesday that both companies need to bargain with the Teamsters.
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July 01, 2026
A Michigan federal judge labeled a former General Motors employee a "vexatious litigator" in an opinion issued Tuesday after she filed "five separate lawsuits raising the same claims" against the same defendants and dismissed her workplace bias and harassment suit against General Motors Flint Assembly and UAW Local 598.
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July 01, 2026
Littler Mendelson PC, which primarily deals in employment and labor law practice representing management, announced on Tuesday the hiring of a former Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP attorney as a shareholder in its Walnut Creek, California, office.
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July 01, 2026
A Hawaii federal judge has partially tossed a lawsuit accusing Hawaiian Airlines Inc. of refusing to accommodate employees' requests for religious and medical exemptions from its COVID-19 vaccine mandate, ruling that the court lacks jurisdiction over the claims since they cannot be resolved without interpreting the airline's collective bargaining agreement.
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July 01, 2026
The collective bargaining agreements for five New York City-based indigent defense and civil legal aid providers expired at the end of the day Tuesday as multiple unions reported outstanding points of contention in their negotiations.
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June 30, 2026
The second half of the year may see action on several cases of interest for labor practitioners, including California's appeal of a decision blocking its ban on so-called captive audience meetings and possible appeals of two decisions limiting the power of the National Labor Relations Board. Here, Law360 looks at developments to watch for during the rest of 2026.
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June 30, 2026
Southwest Airlines disciplined a pilot more harshly than others for a message in a bawdy group chat because of his union affiliation, the pilot's union claimed, arguing that other pilots got away with similar comments because they were less involved in the union.
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June 30, 2026
The Second Circuit on Tuesday upheld a National Labor Relations Board order requiring Nexstar to bargain with a Communications Workers of America affiliate at a New York news station, ruling that the union had been properly certified by the board.
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June 30, 2026
The president of actors union SAG-AFTRA spoke to a congressional subcommittee Tuesday to press the need for a bill to allow for the removal of deepfakes from the internet, framing the advent of digital replicas of people as a fundamental alteration in the methods of human interaction that cannot be ignored by lawmakers.
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June 30, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday denied a former Merit Systems Protection Board member's bid to review a D.C. Circuit decision upholding her firing from the agency, following a Monday high court decision finding that presidents have unlimited authority to fire members of independent agencies.
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June 30, 2026
The National Labor Relations Board backed a decision rejecting a challenge to the results of a union representation election at a Trader Joe's store in Chicago, finding that the alleged actions of an employee and filmmaker before the vote didn't constitute "objectionable" conduct that justified setting aside the election results.
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June 30, 2026
House Democrats have asked National Labor Relations Board general counsel Crystal Carey to provide details about her participation in cases featuring clients from her time as a management-side labor attorney, increasing scrutiny of her handling of matters involving Amazon as the agency's top prosecutor.
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June 30, 2026
A Texas appellate court on Tuesday said the state's free speech law frees Covington & Burling LLP and the National Women's Soccer League from a defamation suit brought by a former Houston Dash coach over his inclusion in a report detailing purportedly abusive conditions in the sport.
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June 30, 2026
The Ninth Circuit will consider a California law that bars employers from penalizing workers who refuse to attend meetings on religious or political topics, while the First Circuit will evaluate whether JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s use of an artificial intelligence-infused interview platform to screen job applicants amounted to an unlawful lie detector exam. Here, Law360 looks at four oral arguments for discrimination lawyers to keep an eye on.
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June 29, 2026
A Massachusetts federal judge on Monday vacated a Federal Labor Relations Authority rule changing its process for handling union representation cases, agreeing with a coalition of unions that the decision to transfer power from the FLRA's regional directors to its members was arbitrary and capricious.
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June 29, 2026
A former instructor's dispute over an allegedly improper performance review cannot move forward against the University of Chicago and a Service Employees International Union local because he hasn't raised viable claims over the process that led to his contract nonrenewal, an Illinois federal judge said Monday.
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June 29, 2026
The Trump administration can't convince a Maryland federal judge to rescind her order opening discovery into allegations the Department of Government Efficiency flouted her orders to stop accessing sensitive Social Security Administration data.