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August 20, 2024
A California federal judge said she can't oversee claims that Teamsters Local 150's process for nominating and electing officials is "rigged to crush dissent," but she can oversee a former official's claim that he was excluded from a slate of candidates as retaliation for critiquing a colleague, the judge ruled Tuesday.
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August 20, 2024
Attorneys and other staff at a nonprofit providing legal services to people leaving prison can vote on whether they want a United Auto Workers affiliate to represent them, a National Labor Relations Board regional director concluded, nixing the organization's claims that some employees are supervisors who can't unionize.
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August 20, 2024
Nexstar Media Group Inc. called for an Ohio federal court Tuesday to pause National Labor Relations Board proceedings against it involving an Ohio television station, alleging the agency's pursuit of consequential damages without a jury trial violates the Seventh Amendment.
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August 20, 2024
A National Labor Relations Board official is fighting the claim that her request for an injunction compelling a Michigan hospital to resume recognizing a union is light on evidentiary support, saying the hospital's attempt to contest the facts of the case falls flat.
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August 20, 2024
The Seventh Circuit ordered arbitration Tuesday of a grievance over early retirement benefits that Sysco Indianapolis LLC wanted to be heard in federal court, reversing a trial judge who concluded the dispute was governed by terms outside the bargaining agreement.
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August 20, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board is an "illegitimate decisionmaker" with agency officials who are unconstitutionally protected from removal by the president, an auto parts maker alleged in federal court, seeking a halt to an unfair labor practice proceeding against the company.
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August 20, 2024
A worker represented by the National Right to Work Foundation asked a D.C. federal judge to pause his unfair labor practice case against his union while he challenges the National Labor Relations Board's structure, placing another constitutional challenge atop a growing pile faced by the agency.
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August 20, 2024
The legal industry continues to see incremental gains for female lawyers in private practice in the U.S., according to a Law360 Pulse analysis, with women now representing 40.6% of all attorneys and 51% of all associates.
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August 20, 2024
The legal industry still has a long way to go before it can achieve gender parity at its upper levels. But these law firms are performing better than others in breaking the proverbial glass ceiling that prevents women from attaining leadership roles.
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August 19, 2024
A National Labor Relations Board official's request for an injunction compelling a Michigan hospital to resume recognizing a Service Employees International Union affiliate is short on uncontested facts and heavy on pressure to adopt the official's findings, the hospital argued Monday, urging a federal judge to deny the request.
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August 19, 2024
Thousands of unionized AT&T workers in the Southeast are still on the picket line after beginning a strike last week, the Communications Workers of America announced Monday, alleging the company hasn't bargained in good faith.
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August 19, 2024
The lead clinicians at a group of Planned Parenthood facilities in Northern California can vote on representation by the Service Employees International Union local that represents their colleagues, a National Labor Relations Board official said Monday, rejecting the nonprofit's argument that the workers are union-ineligible supervisors.
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August 19, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board general counsel's memorandum saying so-called captive audience meetings are unlawful is a "censorship scheme," the Associated Builders and Contractors of Michigan argued to the Sixth Circuit, seeking reversal of a lower court ruling that tossed the group's First Amendment claims.
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August 19, 2024
Workers at a Chicago-area hot dog production facility can continue to be represented by the Iron Workers, the National Labor Relations Board ruled, rejecting their employer's challenge to the union's 28-20 win in a representation election last year.
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August 19, 2024
Energy company DTE Energy told a Michigan federal court that customer service employees who sued it for unpaid off-the-clock work received more than double the minimum wage and that federal labor law preempts their breach of contract claims, arguing their suit can't stand.
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August 16, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris' emergence as the Democrats' nominee for president has drawn the race to a dead heat, easing labor advocates' worries of former President Donald Trump retaking the White House and frustrating management's hopes for a quick return to pro-business labor policies.
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August 16, 2024
Federal prosecutors want to dismiss their extortion case against former International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 98 business manager John Dougherty, who was convicted of bribery and embezzlement and sentenced to six years in prison, but whose trial on charges related to allegedly threatening a contractor ended with a hung jury.
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August 16, 2024
A Carpenters-represented worker who lost health insurance once the union's healthcare plan stopped working with his employer lacks standing to sue the plan, the plan and its trustees argued in California federal court, suggesting the worker raise the issue with his employer or the union itself.
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August 16, 2024
The sports agency linked to music megastar Bad Bunny must arbitrate its dispute over certification of its agents with the Major League Baseball Players Association, after a Puerto Rico federal judge ruled the union's arbitration language is valid.
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August 16, 2024
The Sixth Circuit has reversed a judgment that a reinforced-steel contractor owes about $2 million in unpaid fringe benefit contributions to journeymen who traveled from other states to work on a project in Michigan, finding there was insufficient evidence to support the award.
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August 16, 2024
The United Auto Workers asked an Ohio federal judge to toss a Black member's claim that the union insufficiently fought his discharge from Howmet Aerospace Inc. because of his race, saying the worker failed to show the union unfairly handled the firing grievance.
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August 16, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for potential final approval of a $3.125 million settlement in a wage and hour class action against Liberty Mutual. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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August 16, 2024
Statements from management at a BJ's Wholesale Club Inc. store in Brooklyn during a union drive do not warrant a rerun election, a National Labor Relations Board judge concluded, saying the comments hadn't spread to other workers in the bargaining unit.
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August 16, 2024
A longtime mechanic forfeited his union pension by taking two multi-year breaks from accepting union-covered work, an Illinois federal judge ruled, siding with a union pension fund in its dispute with the mechanic over his pension eligibility.
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August 16, 2024
A New York City hotel and hospitality workers' union are scheduled to appear before a New York federal judge for the first time as part of the hotel's lawsuit seeking to end ongoing agreements the union struck with a previous owner.