The National Labor Relations Board has declined numerous invitations to shift its precedent in unions' favor in recent weeks, in many cases with little or no explanation as to why. But the board's reticence to change key policies in these cases doesn't mean it won't in the future.
Starbucks broke federal labor law when former CEO Howard Schultz told a pro-union worker they could "go work for another company" if they weren't happy at the coffee chain, the National Labor Relations Board concluded Wednesday, finding Schultz's "generic assurances against retaliation" didn't let the company off the hook.
Workers at ports across the East and Gulf coasts of the U.S. walked off the job Tuesday in the first strike the International Longshoremen's Association has launched since 1977, and experts said the dispute could be protracted as workers pursue pay bumps like other unions have recently secured.
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The National Labor Relations Board has declined numerous invitations to shift its precedent in unions' favor in recent weeks, in many cases with little or no explanation as to why. But the board's reticence to change key policies in these cases doesn't mean it won't in the future.
Starbucks broke federal labor law when former CEO Howard Schultz told a pro-union worker they could "go work for another company" if they weren't happy at the coffee chain, the National Labor Relations Board concluded Wednesday, finding Schultz's "generic assurances against retaliation" didn't let the company off the hook.
Workers at ports across the East and Gulf coasts of the U.S. walked off the job Tuesday in the first strike the International Longshoremen's Association has launched since 1977, and experts said the dispute could be protracted as workers pursue pay bumps like other unions have recently secured.
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October 04, 2024
Tesla didn't violate federal labor law by having workplace rules limiting the use of company technology at its Buffalo, New York, plant where workers were organizing, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled Friday, finding the policies can't be viewed as infringing on employees' rights.
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October 04, 2024
The employees of an off-Broadway theater organization called Theatre Row will vote on representation by the independent Theatre Shop Union later this month, a National Labor Relations Board official said Friday.
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October 04, 2024
The U.S. Department of Agriculture filed a final rule Friday tweaking an acquisition regulation after nearly 30 years since a previous overhaul, but the rule doesn't include a proposal that would have required federal contractors to certify compliance with federal and state labor laws.
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October 04, 2024
Paramount violated the New York Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act by laying off more than 300 New York City-based employees without the required 90 days' notice, a new proposed class action filed in New York federal court alleges.
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October 04, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for potential final approval of a deal to resolve a class action alleging O'Reilly Auto Enterprises failed to pay for time workers spent in COVID-19 screenings. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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October 04, 2024
This week, a New York federal judge will consider whether to toss a former ConEd attorney's lawsuit claiming she was discriminated against on the basis of her age and gender.
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October 04, 2024
The director of the National Labor Relations Board's Brooklyn office certified a union at a rock climbing gym in the New York City borough, rejecting the gym's claim that workers were pressured into voting yes because a supervisor supported the union and there were pro-union posters near the polling place.
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October 04, 2024
A Teamsters affiliate in Alaska breached its duty of fair representation by slashing a truck driver's seniority when he came back to work after being a union business agent, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, finding the union's take on a labor contract's seniority clause wasn't reasonable.
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October 03, 2024
The American Civil Liberties Union is fighting a National Labor Relations Board judge's order to rehire an attorney who tweeted disparaging remarks about her bosses, doubling down on its argument that her firing was justified because she'd committed public insubordination and used anti-Black language in the workplace.
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October 03, 2024
After a three-day strike, tens of thousands of dockworkers on the East and Gulf coasts will head back to work because International Longshoremen's Association union leaders reached a tentative wage agreement late Thursday with the group that represents container carriers, marine terminal operators and port employers.
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October 03, 2024
The Fourth Circuit ruled Thursday that a Maryland-based sheet metal manufacturer violated federal benefits law by underpaying contributions it owed to a group of union benefit plans, but said a trial court needs to take another shot at calculating damages.
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October 03, 2024
Workers at a Massachusetts cannabis dispensary affiliated with stoner comedy stars Richard "Cheech" Marin and Tommy Chong have petitioned the National Labor Relations Board to hold a union election.
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October 03, 2024
One attorney hasn't lost a single U.S. Supreme Court case she's argued, or even a single justice's vote. One attorney is perhaps "the preeminent SCOTUS advocate." And one may soon become U.S. solicitor general, despite acknowledging there are "judges out there who don't like me." All three are among a dozen lawyers in the vanguard of the Supreme Court bar's next generation, poised to follow in the footsteps of the bar's current icons.
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October 03, 2024
The Fifth Circuit should combine appeals of district court orders halting unfair labor practice proceedings against SpaceX and other companies in connection with their constitutional challenges to the National Labor Relations Board's structure, the board argued, saying the injunctions have "put justice on hold" for workers.
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October 03, 2024
A Second Circuit panel ruled that a $57,100 arbitration award in a misclassification suit against a cleaning company must remain confidential, flipping a Connecticut federal court's decision unsealing the award and declining to dismiss the case.
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October 03, 2024
Two U.S. senators wrote to U.S. Steel's president and CEO on Wednesday seeking guarantees that a $72 million "golden parachute" deal wasn't driving the executive's willingness to support a $14.1 billion merger with Japanese steelmaker Nippon Steel.
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October 03, 2024
Employees of an Amazon warehouse in San Francisco have demanded that the company recognize the Teamsters as their bargaining representative, becoming the second group of Amazon workers to send a union recognition demand in two weeks.
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October 03, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board and Starbucks ended litigation in a Colorado federal court of agency prosecutors' request for a nationwide injunction to stop the coffee chain from firing workers for their union activities.
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October 02, 2024
A Green Thumb Industries employee backed by the National Right to Work Foundation is looking to decertify the union that represents the cannabis company's New Jersey employees, the anti-union group announced Wednesday.
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October 02, 2024
A case by a medical center challenging the constitutionality of the National Labor Relations Board will be transferred from one Texas federal court division to another, but the judge, who previously granted an injunction against board proceedings, will retain the case on his docket.
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October 02, 2024
A coalition of 14 states and the District of Columbia urged the Eleventh Circuit to reject the railroad industry's attempt to vacate the U.S. Department of Transportation's final rule requiring all trains to be operated with at least two people, saying doing so would make rail operations less safe nationally.
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October 02, 2024
An auto parts manufacturer urged the Sixth Circuit to halt National Labor Relations Board proceedings against the company before an "unaccountable" agency judge, arguing the employer would face harm because the administrative judge is unconstitutionally shielded from removal by the president.
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October 02, 2024
An ExxonMobil unit did not assign union-represented employees' work to nonunion interns at a Louisiana refinery and chemical plant, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, saying the case record lacks proof that the interns assumed the tasks of the plant's United Steelworkers-represented workers.
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October 01, 2024
The first major strike in 47 years of thousands of dockworkers on the East and Gulf coasts has left importers and exporters bracing for unpredictable and costly disruptions alongside economic upheaval not felt since the thick of the COVID-19 pandemic, experts say.
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October 01, 2024
Amazon is a joint employer of its contractor's drivers, according to a copy of a consolidated complaint from National Labor Relations Board attorneys obtained by Law360 on Tuesday, alleging the e-commerce giant is on the hook for multiple unfair labor practices.