Massachusetts voters on Tuesday handed Uber and Lyft drivers a novel route to unionization, likely setting up a legal challenge to the measure that experts predict will face an uphill climb.
Donald Trump's projected return to the White House is poised to have a major effect on the National Labor Relations Board, with the potential for a dramatic reversal of the last four years of pro-union policy.
A Fifth Circuit panel questioned ExxonMobil's assertion that it could keep the same National Labor Relations Board panel makeup besides a board member flagged for conflict of interest, telling Exxon there was "good reason" for a completely new panel during oral arguments Monday.
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Massachusetts voters on Tuesday handed Uber and Lyft drivers a novel route to unionization, likely setting up a legal challenge to the measure that experts predict will face an uphill climb.
Donald Trump's projected return to the White House is poised to have a major effect on the National Labor Relations Board, with the potential for a dramatic reversal of the last four years of pro-union policy.
A Fifth Circuit panel questioned ExxonMobil's assertion that it could keep the same National Labor Relations Board panel makeup besides a board member flagged for conflict of interest, telling Exxon there was "good reason" for a completely new panel during oral arguments Monday.
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November 06, 2024
A Florida law's provision banning the deduction of union dues from public employees' paychecks is unconstitutional as to collective bargaining agreements that are still in effect for two Florida teachers unions, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
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November 06, 2024
A legal support consulting firm demanded an injunction in Texas federal court to block National Labor Relations Board proceedings against it, pursuing constitutional claims about the agency's structure and alleging the NLRB tried to "bully" the employer into bargaining with an electrical workers union.
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November 06, 2024
A New York federal judge rejected the latest bid from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and an Ironworkers local for approval of a deal to end a decades-old race bias suit, finding Wednesday they still couldn't provide data showing racial hiring disparities had been eliminated.
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November 06, 2024
Alaska voters are poised to approve a ballot measure restricting employers from holding so-called captive audience meetings in the state, which would make it the latest state to join a movement limiting the common anti-union tactic and the first to adopt the policy by ballot measure.
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November 06, 2024
A New Jersey federal judge shot down a nursing home operator's second attempt to use a constitutional argument to block National Labor Relations Board prosecutors from pursuing a case against the company, saying Wednesday that the company's second injunction bid too closely resembled its first failed bid.
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November 06, 2024
Amazon urged a California federal judge to pause a National Labor Relations Board case alleging the e-commerce giant jointly employed its former contractor's Teamster-represented drivers, raising now-familiar claims that removal protections for agency officials violate the U.S. Constitution.
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November 05, 2024
With former President Donald Trump projected to win the 2024 presidential election and the Republicans' success in securing the U.S. Senate majority, Trump may now get the chance to appoint two more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court, cementing the court's conservative tilt for decades to come.
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November 05, 2024
Republicans were projected to take back the White House and Senate and possibly the House early Wednesday, putting the GOP in position to back Donald Trump's agenda and his slate of young, conservative judicial nominees.
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November 05, 2024
Law firms that have represented Donald Trump and the Republican Party on everything from personal legal woes to election-related lawsuits could see the risks of that work pay dividends as Trump is projected to secure a second term in office.
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November 05, 2024
Voters on Tuesday approved statewide ballot measures that will raise the minimum wage and establish paid sick leave while rejecting those that would impact the tipped subminimum wage.
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November 05, 2024
Efforts to liberalize cannabis and psychedelic laws via ballot initiatives met with defeat in multiple states on Election Day, dealing a blow to reformers of drug policies.
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November 05, 2024
The United Auto Workers union and Michigan residents urged a federal judge Monday to certify a class of people who say the state suspended their unemployment payments without proper notice, a practice the claimants say violates a seven-year-old agreement with the state's unemployment insurance agency.
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November 05, 2024
Trader Joe's did not violate federal labor law by shuttering its Manhattan wine shop where union organizing was bubbling up, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled Tuesday, saying agency prosecutors hadn't shown the grocery chain closed the store because of organizing efforts.
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November 05, 2024
A Vermont software development company violated federal labor law by firing a worker who created a salary spreadsheet and three workers who supported him, the National Labor Relations Board ruled Tuesday, upholding an agency judge's decision.
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November 05, 2024
Workers at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama are poised to vote for a third time on whether to unionize after a National Labor Relations Board judge on Tuesday found the company interfered with the last vote by vilifying workers' prospective union and confiscating union flyers.
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November 05, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board correctly found that Apple unlawfully interrogated a worker at a unionizing New York City store, the Communications Workers of America told the Fifth Circuit, saying the appellate court's decades-old test for determining whether there was coercive interrogation would yield the same result.
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November 05, 2024
A majority of 33,000 Boeing employees represented by the Machinists union voted Monday to ratify a new labor contract that includes a 38% wage increase over four years, ending a nearly two-month strike that hampered Boeing's production and cash flow.
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November 05, 2024
Two members of the United Food and Commercial Workers don't have standing to challenge the union's system of selecting convention delegates, a D.C. federal judge ruled, finding the plaintiffs couldn't show how they were harmed by the method for apportioning delegates by union local.
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November 05, 2024
The AFL-CIO and one of its member unions have asked the Fifth Circuit to undo a trio of injunctions that blocked National Labor Relations Board cases from proceeding on constitutional grounds, saying the injunctions "perpetuate a much graver constitutional harm than they claim to remedy."
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November 05, 2024
A municipal waste company has agreed to resolve a Teamsters pension fund's lawsuit alleging that the company owes over $7.5 million to cover a predecessor's unpaid contributions, a New York federal judge said Tuesday.
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November 05, 2024
Attorneys worked tirelessly Tuesday to support citizens and election workers on the final day of voting in one of history's most contentious presidential contests.
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November 04, 2024
An '80s-themed restaurant in Houston must read a notice out loud to workers after illegally terminating employees who went on strike, the National Labor Relations Board determined Monday, upholding an agency judge's unfair labor practice findings.
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November 04, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board isn't considering a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling on what standards courts must apply to injunction requests under federal labor law, Starbucks argued to a Michigan federal judge, challenging the agency's bid to make the court order the company to reinstate a fired union backer.
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November 04, 2024
Grindr retaliated against its unionizing employees by giving them two weeks to either commit to returning to the office or resign, the National Labor Relations Board's Los Angeles office said in a new complaint against the gay dating app operator, saying 83 people lost their jobs as a result.
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November 04, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board has upheld a back pay order against a Manhattan steakhouse that fired 36 strikers a decade ago, but shot down board prosecutors' request to use the case to shift precedent on back pay calculations.