The National Labor Relations Board has more than two dozen ripe issues on its docket, including the legality of so-called captive audience meetings, workers’ rights to use company email and chat systems, and compensation for workers whose bosses delay union negotiations. Here, Law360 looks at these and other issues the board could soon decide.
A Massachusetts federal judge has ordered a cannabis company to bargain with the United Food and Commercial Workers in the first application of the National Labor Relations Board’s Cemex standard to an injunction case. Here, Law360 explores takeaways from the novel decision.
While the United Auto Workers' recent contracts with Detroit automakers were key to organizing Volkswagen's Tennessee plant and securing a landmark election victory last month, experts said unique factors at Volkswagen will give the upcoming talks their own character.
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The National Labor Relations Board has more than two dozen ripe issues on its docket, including the legality of so-called captive audience meetings, workers’ rights to use company email and chat systems, and compensation for workers whose bosses delay union negotiations. Here, Law360 looks at these and other issues the board could soon decide.
A Massachusetts federal judge has ordered a cannabis company to bargain with the United Food and Commercial Workers in the first application of the National Labor Relations Board’s Cemex standard to an injunction case. Here, Law360 explores takeaways from the novel decision.
While the United Auto Workers' recent contracts with Detroit automakers were key to organizing Volkswagen's Tennessee plant and securing a landmark election victory last month, experts said unique factors at Volkswagen will give the upcoming talks their own character.
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May 16, 2024
Rimas Sports, the sports agency of mega music superstar Bad Bunny, is suing the Major League Baseball Players Association in Puerto Rico federal court, saying the union effectively killed its business with unreasonable sanctions in order to protect its "good ole boy" club of established agencies.
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May 16, 2024
United Natural Foods Inc. delivery drivers in Pennsylvania may vote on whether they want a Teamsters local to represent them, a National Labor Relations Board regional director determined Thursday, while finding that J.B. Hunt is not a joint employer of these workers.
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May 16, 2024
A nonprofit food service company near Albany, New York, lawfully withdrew recognition from a Service Employee International Union local, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, finding the agency prosecutors hadn't shown that unfair labor practices and a decertification petition were linked.
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May 16, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board urged the full D.C. Circuit to reject an auto parts manufacturer's request to reconsider a March decision upholding the board's ruling that the company unlawfully withdrew recognition from a United Auto Workers local, saying the company is mistaken that the board's ruling altered precedent.
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May 16, 2024
A split National Labor Relations Board panel remanded a chicken processor's challenge of a representation election based on the claim that a union offered to waive initiation fees, with a dissenting board member finding a lack of evidence to support a hearing.
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May 15, 2024
The Second Circuit on Wednesday revived the National Labor Relations Board's suit seeking to halt Starbucks' alleged labor violations nationwide, finding that the lower court erred in tossing the suit for noncompliance with its "overbroad" discovery order granting the coffee chain's subpoenas seeking confidential union intel and workers' communications.
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May 15, 2024
Walmart illegally forbade a worker in Louisiana from talking about his discipline with other colleagues, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled Wednesday, telling the company to stop threatening employees who may discuss disciplinary meetings.
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May 15, 2024
A Welch's factory employee who was fired after being falsely accused of sexual harassment five years ago has waited long enough to be rehired, a Teamsters local argued in Pennsylvania federal court, urging a district judge to uphold an arbitrator's reinstatement order in accordance with a magistrate judge's recommendation.
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May 15, 2024
A U.S. Department of Justice attorney urged the Seventh Circuit on Wednesday to reject a union's bid to sanction National Labor Relations Board attorneys in a case over labor law violations at a quarry, saying the contention that the union waived a key argument doesn't warrant such an "extreme measure."
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May 15, 2024
A barge company urged an Alaska federal judge to stop International Longshore and Warehouse Union local affiliates from arbitrating over a work preservation dispute, telling the court that a prior arbitration award established an agreement that makes the company hire union members.
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May 14, 2024
Venable LLP is growing its presence by opening its first office in Colorado, with eight commercial and employment attorneys from Sherman & Howard LLP opening its Denver location, which will be headed by partner-in-charge James "Jim" Sawtelle, the firm announced Tuesday.
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May 14, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board concluded Tuesday that an Illinois concrete producer violated federal labor law by putting manure near an area where an International Union of Operating Engineers local was picketing, granting agency attorneys' motion for default judgment.
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May 14, 2024
The Colorado Livestock Association doesn't have standing to challenge a state law that requires agricultural employers to give workers access to service providers, a state judge ruled, finding individual members of the group must take part in the proceeding.
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May 14, 2024
Surging union activity in the healthcare industry has reached a new front: employees of the nation's largest healthcare union.
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May 14, 2024
Kraft Heinz asked a Delaware federal judge Tuesday to step in and stop a Teamsters unit's healthcare grievance from going to arbitration, saying the union must use the dispute resolution process outlined in the company healthcare plan, not the grievance and arbitration process outlined in the union contract.
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May 14, 2024
Two Seventh Circuit judges on Tuesday pressed the U.S. Department of Labor to address how much authority individual employers had as part of an allegedly mismanaged multiemployer benefit fund, saying the question is crucial to determine whether the agency properly won a federal court injunction.
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May 14, 2024
Wonderful Nurseries LLC is challenging a California state statute that simplified the process for farmworkers like the agricultural company's own to unionize, arguing in a new lawsuit that it's unconstitutional to allow a union to represent workers without a secret-ballot election as long as a majority sign union cards.
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May 14, 2024
A Massachusetts cannabis retailer found to have engaged in union busting must recognize and bargain with a United Food and Commercial Workers local and offer to rehire two fired union supporters, a federal judge ordered Tuesday.
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May 14, 2024
An international tribunal formed under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement declined to examine if workers at a Mexican mine were denied collective bargaining rights, finding that much of the 17-year dispute had already been decided under now-defunct labor laws.
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May 14, 2024
A group of Planned Parenthood workers at six facilities in Southern California may vote on whether they want a United Food and Commercial Workers affiliate to represent them, a National Labor Relations Board regional director determined, tossing the reproductive health care provider's arguments for a larger bargaining unit.
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May 13, 2024
Twelve registered nurses at a Southern California hospital are free to vote on representation by a Service Employees International Union local later this month, a National Labor Relations Board official has held, rejecting the hospital's claim that the nurses are union-ineligible supervisors.
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May 13, 2024
A New York federal judge ordered Amazon on Monday to immediately turn over workers' contact information to a monitor overseeing a vote to elect the Amazon Labor Union's first officers, rejecting the company's request that she reconsider a May 9 decision.
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May 13, 2024
Workers at an Apple Store in New Jersey voted against being represented by the Communications Workers of America as the union accused the company of using an "anti-union playbook" to sink the unionization effort.
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May 13, 2024
A medical imaging facility in the Los Angeles area wrongly laid off a union-represented worker in 2019, promised to reinstate her and then never did, the National Labor Relations Board found, ordering the facility to rehire the worker after five years.
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May 13, 2024
Starbucks violated federal labor law by barring workers at a New York store from wearing union shirts on the job, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, saying the company allowed workers to wear shirts with logos supporting other causes.