The president's assertion that he can control independent agencies thrusts the National Labor Relations Board into a "fundamentally different level of politicization" from the usual partisanship its critics decry, former Chairman Lauren McFerran told Law360 in an exclusive interview on her tenure and the board's future.
A union coalition sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in Washington federal court Thursday, claiming it arbitrarily shredded a contract covering airport security officers to punish their union for challenging the president's "anti-worker actions" in court.
Sen. Josh Hawley is seeking to build Republican support for a union-backed bill that he describes as adding a "shot clock" to bargaining obligations for initial labor contracts, even as business groups criticize the bill as unrealistic and legally suspect.
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The president's assertion that he can control independent agencies thrusts the National Labor Relations Board into a "fundamentally different level of politicization" from the usual partisanship its critics decry, former Chairman Lauren McFerran told Law360 in an exclusive interview on her tenure and the board's future.
A union coalition sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in Washington federal court Thursday, claiming it arbitrarily shredded a contract covering airport security officers to punish their union for challenging the president's "anti-worker actions" in court.
Sen. Josh Hawley is seeking to build Republican support for a union-backed bill that he describes as adding a "shot clock" to bargaining obligations for initial labor contracts, even as business groups criticize the bill as unrealistic and legally suspect.
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March 14, 2025
A Maryland federal judge has ordered the reinstatement of thousands of probationary employees who were abruptly fired from 18 federal agencies, saying the Trump administration's lack of required notice left states "scrambling" to pick up the pieces.
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March 14, 2025
A National Labor Relations Board judge cleared Waffle House of a majority of claims including a claim that a manager threatened to call police on workers during a protest at a South Carolina restaurant, while finding the company unlawfully questioned employees about their union activities.
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March 14, 2025
An airline caterer accused of violating a Los Angeles city ordinance through its pay practices told a California federal court it resolved its dispute with the city, which had launched an investigation, after the caterer settled claims with a class of employees, according to City Council meeting records.
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March 14, 2025
A Connecticut city has settled a public works employee's claim that he was fired for joining a local Teamsters union after pressure from the mayor and other bosses to invoke a 2018 U.S. Supreme Court case that allows government employees to avoid paying union dues.
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March 14, 2025
A distribution service provider failed to support its argument that an "act of God" exemption in a contract it had with a Teamsters chapter allowed the company to reduce workers' hours during the coronavirus pandemic, the Seventh Circuit ruled, keeping in place an arbitrator's conclusion.
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March 14, 2025
The National Labor Relations Board's acting general counsel has withdrawn a bid to overrule a nearly 40-year-old precedent in a case involving a labor dispute at Exxon Mobil over employers' ability to hire temporary replacement workers during a lockout.
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March 14, 2025
This week, the Second Circuit will weigh whether New York City law prohibits discrimination on the basis of marriage to a specific person, as it considers a suit brought by Wendy Williams' ex-husband over claims he was fired as a producer on her talk show after she filed for divorce. Here, Law360 looks at this and other cases on the docket in New York.
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March 14, 2025
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for a Ninth Circuit rehearing en banc in a challenge to a Los Angeles Unified School District COVID-19 vaccination mandate. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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March 14, 2025
Striking production and advertising workers at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette have reached a deal to take a buyout from the newspaper's publisher, the Communications Workers of America announced Thursday, just weeks after the National Labor Relations Board lost its bid to restart bargaining between the paper and the workers' unions.
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March 13, 2025
A New York federal judge denied the federal government's request to prioritize a case filed by Empire State transportation authorities over a newly launched Manhattan congestion pricing program that the Trump administration has moved to kill, saying Thursday the court wouldn't stay other cases over the program that are further along.
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March 13, 2025
A National Labor Relations Board judge ruled that employees of a Florida nursing home were entitled to backpay and compensation for unused paid time off, finding that workers weren't told in advance that their facility switched operators in violation of a union collective bargaining agreement.
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March 13, 2025
Volkswagen has violated federal labor law by looking to conduct layoffs as part of a shift reduction at a recently unionized plant in Tennessee without bargaining with the union, the United Auto Workers claim in an unfair labor practice charge filed Thursday with the National Labor Relations Board.
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March 13, 2025
The Teamsters and United Airlines can escape most of a suit in which flight attendants challenged the formula for how the union sorts out raises, a California federal judge ruled Thursday, keeping alive only Railway Labor Act due process claims.
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March 13, 2025
A Service Employees International Union benefit fund no longer has to face a lawsuit four surgical centers launched accusing it of shortchanging them on patient treatments, with a New York federal judge saying Wednesday the centers have failed to show that any agreement existed between themselves and the fund.
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March 13, 2025
A California federal judge has dismissed a constitutional challenge to the Golden State's law requiring marijuana businesses to have labor peace agreements, saying that the court could not intervene in the matter because the entire industry is federally illegal.
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March 13, 2025
Amazon has urged the Eleventh Circuit to reverse a National Labor Relations Board decision declaring so-called captive audience meetings unlawful, saying the agency's precedent shift infringes on the First Amendment and runs counter to decades of interpretation of federal labor law.
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March 13, 2025
New York City fails to take into account preshift tasks and extra compensation correction officers working on Rikers Island receive when calculating their overtime wages, a proposed collective action filed in federal court said.
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March 13, 2025
The National Labor Relations Board didn't overstep by wiping out and rethinking a decision involving an Exxon Mobil unit after learning a member had a stake in the company, the Fifth Circuit said, enforcing the board's ruling that the company sabotaged negotiations with a union.
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March 13, 2025
A California federal judge on Thursday ordered the immediate reinstatement of certain probationary employees fired from six federal agencies, saying the Office of Personnel Management did not have the authority to direct those terminations, making the firings "unlawful."
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March 12, 2025
President Donald Trump last month unlawfully fired the Democratic chair of the Federal Labor Relations Authority, a Washington, D.C., federal judge ruled Wednesday, saying the government "is not an autocracy" that allows the president to "remove federal officials on a whim."
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March 12, 2025
The Ninth Circuit must find that removal protections for National Labor Relations Board members and judges flout the U.S. Constitution, Amazon argued in a brief, challenging a lower court's denial of the e-commerce conglomerate's bid for an injunction to block an unfair labor practice proceeding.
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March 12, 2025
An attorney in the National Labor Relations Board's Seattle office sued the agency in Washington, D.C., federal court Wednesday, alleging it suppressed her First Amendment rights by referring her for criminal prosecution over her work for a local park advocacy group.
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March 12, 2025
A coalition of 21 Democratic-led states and the District of Columbia urged the D.C. Circuit to deny the Trump administration's effort to hold the reinstatement of National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox, saying delaying the reinstatement would stall labor disputes.
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March 12, 2025
The U.S. Senate on Wednesday in a party-line vote confirmed President Donald Trump's nominee for deputy labor secretary, the second-in-command of the U.S. Department of Labor.
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March 12, 2025
A National Labor Relations Board attorney withdrew arguments in separate cases involving Starbucks and the American Civil Liberties Union about so-called captive audience meetings and negotiating over discipline with a new union, pointing to the acting general counsel's rescission of his predecessor's memorandums.