October 30, 2025
Three upstate New York farms have asked a federal judge to block the state from imposing union contracts on them, saying New York's enforcement of a 2019 law that gave farmworkers union organizing rights violates the farms' right to due process of law.
February 22, 2024
A New York federal judge paused enforcement of a section of a state agricultural labor law that would make it an unfair labor practice to discourage unionization, saying claims from a farming group that the provision violates the First Amendment have a chance of success.
February 16, 2024
The United Farm Workers can't intervene in a case over a state law covering protections for agricultural workers, a New York federal judge ruled Friday, saying the union's interests in organizing and upholding the statute won't be harmed.
February 16, 2024
In the coming week, the Second Circuit will consider a union's argument to overturn a lower court decision holding that a union could not arbitrate a grievance over Xerox's decision to end health benefits for retired workers. Here, Law360 explores this and another major labor and employment case on the docket in New York.
February 12, 2024
The United Farm Workers urged a New York federal judge to let the union intervene in a dispute over a state law covering protections for agriculture workers, arguing an agricultural organization and family-run farms made claims that implicated the union in their suit to block the law's enforcement.
October 03, 2023
An agricultural organization and family-run farms in New York sued state Gov. Kathy Hochul and other government officials Monday, challenging a law granting workplace protections and organizing rights to agriculture workers, saying employers have been stripped of meaningful labor union rights.