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January 30, 2025
Sixth Circuit judges wrestled Thursday with what to do with a legal challenge to a memo penned by the National Labor Relations Board's former general counsel given her recent firing and expected shifts in the agency's policy direction under President Donald Trump.
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January 30, 2025
A former International Union of Operating Engineers general president pled guilty to not disclosing $315,000 worth of event tickets in annual reports to the U.S. Department of Labor, according to federal court filings, with the ex-union leader facing a potential prison sentence and thousands in fines.
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January 30, 2025
The National Labor Relations Board has jurisdiction over the pipeline operators employed by FSM Group LLC at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, a board official has determined, rejecting the employer's argument that the agency that administers the Railway Labor Act has jurisdiction instead.
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January 29, 2025
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's union has urged staff at the agency to refrain from responding to the Trump administration's buyout offer for federal employees, describing it as a potential trap and suggesting they consider marking it as spam instead.
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January 29, 2025
Two unions representing thousands of federal government employees sued the Trump administration Wednesday, seeking to halt enforcement of a portion of the president's executive order rolling back a Biden-era regulation covering protections for career civil service workers.
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January 29, 2025
A flight attendants' union can't accuse SkyWest Airlines of failing to report its funding of an in-house employees' group to the U.S. Department of Labor, a Utah federal judge ruled Wednesday, saying only the secretary of labor can enforce the Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act's reporting requirements.
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January 29, 2025
President Donald Trump's executive order making it easier to fire certain federal employees could hurt the National Labor Relations Board's ability to retain staff and damage the deliberative process the agency uses for prosecuting cases, former NLRB attorneys and other experts said.
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January 29, 2025
A Massachusetts federal judge has sent a Stellantis lawsuit accusing the UAW of violating a collective bargaining agreement by threatening mid-contract strikes to a California federal court where the automaker is pursuing identical claims over the union's tactics.
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January 29, 2025
President Donald Trump’s offer of letting federal workers resign with several months of paid administrative leave raises questions about its legality and whether workers will actually get paid, attorneys said. Here, Law360 explores four questions that stem from the policy.
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January 29, 2025
President Donald Trump fired National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox and general counsel Jennifer Abruzzo because of doubts they would give employers a fair shake, asserting in a discharge letter obtained by Law360 on Wednesday that he may fire NLRB members at will.
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January 29, 2025
A flight attendant cannot recover nearly $2.5 million in attorney fees incurred while litigating her suit in which she claimed Southwest terminated her after she sent pictures of aborted fetuses during a Transport Workers Union of America Local 556 action, a Texas federal judge ruled.
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January 29, 2025
A Chicago health center may withdraw its constitutional challenge against the National Labor Relations Board if it shoulders the agency's legal fees, an Illinois federal judge ruled, noting the NLRB opposes the withdrawal because it believes the health center will sue again in a friendlier court.
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January 29, 2025
A building services company can't push back a hearing about a Cemex bargaining order on the grounds that the National Labor Relations Board lacks a general counsel or quorum on the board, an administrative law judge ordered, saying the reshuffle at the agency is "not a valid reason to postpone."
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January 29, 2025
Boeing had valid, nondiscriminatory reasons for laying off a group of flight training airplane instructor pilots after they voted to keep their union, the National Labor Relations Board has ruled, reversing an agency judge's ruling.
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January 28, 2025
The Trump administration on Tuesday emailed about 2 million federal employees offering them the option to resign but continue to be paid to the end of September, in an effort to implement a campaign promise to drastically cut the federal workforce and only keep employees who are "loyal" and "trustworthy."
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January 28, 2025
The firings of National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox and general counsel Jennifer Abruzzo will disrupt the agency's operations and ignite a legal battle over the president's power to remove board members, experts say. Here, Law360 looks at these and other takeaways from these consequential personnel moves at the top of the NLRB.
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January 28, 2025
The overall share of union-represented workers dipped in 2024, according to data released Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics, marking another year of decreasing unionization rates while labor advocates say the data doesn't reflect ongoing organizing efforts.
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January 28, 2025
The official committee of unsecured creditors in Yellow Corp.'s bankruptcy case filed a motion Tuesday to terminate the defunct trucking company's exclusive right to file a Chapter 11 plan, or alternatively, to convert the proceedings to a Chapter 7 liquidation.
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January 28, 2025
A plumbing union pension plan violated federal benefits law when it refused to increase a worker's monthly payments because he opted to retire late, a Minnesota federal judge ruled, finding the plan's terms didn't prevent him from receiving a bump.
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January 28, 2025
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office employees whose telework is protected in a collective bargaining agreement don't have to work in person, the agency has confirmed, but the federal government has told agencies to review how to change those agreements.
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January 28, 2025
Employees of a Whole Foods in Center City, Philadelphia, have become the Amazon-owned grocery chain's first workers to vote yes on union representation, with 57% of the staff voting in favor of affiliating with a United Food and Commercial Workers local.
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January 28, 2025
Freeman Mathis & Gary LLP has added new partners in Chicago, Nashville, Los Angeles and Dallas, with the hires underscoring the firm's "dedication to strategic expansion and delivering outstanding client service," a firm leader said Tuesday.
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January 28, 2025
President Donald Trump removed National Labor Relations Board general counsel Jennifer Abruzzo and Democratic member Gwynne Wilcox overnight, leaving the agency's panel of adjudicators without a quorum and its prosecutor's office without a top official.
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January 27, 2025
From a looming settlement in the Purdue bankruptcy to a pair of retailers overcoming objections to their Chapter 11 plans, here are some of the biggest bankruptcy news from the past week.
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January 27, 2025
A commercial property management firm asked the D.C. Circuit to reconsider its enforcement of an NLRB order finding the company illegally fired a worker for his union support and not his vaccination status, challenging how the appeals court tied alleged knowledge of union activities to the company's decision.