A North Jersey contractor can't use the fact it hasn't employed union workers in years to duck its obligations under an automatically renewing contract with a Sheet Metal Workers local, a split Third Circuit ruled Friday, upholding a New Jersey federal judge's decision.
President Donald Trump issued an executive order last week instructing the National Labor Relations Board to "clarify" the status of college athletes, a move that experts called an unusual attempt by the White House to direct an independent agency's actions.
National Labor Relations Board acting general counsel William Cowen has instructed agency attorneys not to hesitate to refer disputes to the National Mediation Board when there are questions about which agency has jurisdiction, saying regional offices have too often decided jurisdiction on their own in unclear cases.
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A North Jersey contractor can't use the fact it hasn't employed union workers in years to duck its obligations under an automatically renewing contract with a Sheet Metal Workers local, a split Third Circuit ruled Friday, upholding a New Jersey federal judge's decision.
President Donald Trump issued an executive order last week instructing the National Labor Relations Board to "clarify" the status of college athletes, a move that experts called an unusual attempt by the White House to direct an independent agency's actions.
National Labor Relations Board acting general counsel William Cowen has instructed agency attorneys not to hesitate to refer disputes to the National Mediation Board when there are questions about which agency has jurisdiction, saying regional offices have too often decided jurisdiction on their own in unclear cases.
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August 01, 2025
A Michigan furniture manufacturer and its shipping partner cannot get interest and attorney fees in a dispute with a Teamsters-affiliated pension fund, an Illinois federal judge ruled, finding the fund's bid to increase the amount of money the companies owed was not made in bad faith.
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August 01, 2025
The Ninth Circuit should have preserved the National Labor Relations Board's decision to admonish a longshoreman's union for going after maintenance work in the Port of Seattle that had been awarded to the Machinists, board prosecutors said, asking the court to rethink a June ruling that overturned the decision.
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August 01, 2025
An Illinois appeals court has reversed a state labor panel's decision adding workers at Illinois State University to an existing bargaining unit represented by an American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees council, saying the panel ignored precedent on which workers are union-ineligible supervisors.
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August 01, 2025
Justin Martin of Jones Day has represented McDonald's and Google in high-profile litigation before the National Labor Relations Board in unfair labor practice cases that alleged the companies jointly employed workers with franchisees and contractors, earning him a spot among the employment practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 01, 2025
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for arguments about whether a proposed wage and hour class action against a drug and alcohol testing company should be sent to arbitration or back to state court. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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August 01, 2025
This week, a New York federal judge will consider tossing a suit brought by a former administrator at Mount Sinai Beth Israel hospital who claims she was fired for complaining about sexual harassment she faced from a co-worker.
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July 31, 2025
A chemical distributor was allowed to stop paying into a Teamsters pension fund in 2021, and an Illinois federal judge was wrong to conclude otherwise, the Seventh Circuit said Thursday, reversing a ruling that ordered the company to pay the fund over $365,000.
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July 31, 2025
A Sixth Circuit panel on Thursday upheld an Ohio federal court's decision finding that a trade union, three trustees of a union benefit fund, and a fund participant cannot remove two other trustees they accused of self-dealing, saying they failed to show they would face irreparable harm.
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July 31, 2025
A National Labor Relations Board attorney's suit accusing the agency of infringing her First Amendment rights belongs in Washington state, a D.C. federal judge found, transferring the case out of the nation's capital.
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July 31, 2025
Two Michigan laws that classify home caregivers as public employees who can unionize violate the First Amendment, caregivers alleged in a complaint, urging a state court to issue an injunction preventing the certification of a union representation election.
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July 31, 2025
Proskauer Rose's Rachel Fischer has successfully defended high-profile clients such as Fox News in a former producer's sexual harassment and assault suit and the MLB in an umpire's race discrimination suit, earning her a spot among the employment practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 31, 2025
A federal appellate panel appeared unlikely based on oral arguments Thursday to revive a suit by a former fire chief at a Michigan paper mill who allegedly threatened coworkers but claimed that the United Steelworkers shirked its representation duties by failing to fight the company's decision to fire him.
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July 31, 2025
Kaufman Dolowich is boosting its labor and employment team, bringing in a Jackson Lewis PC labor attorney as a partner.
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July 30, 2025
About 160 technicians who produce news programs for MSNBC and NBC News Now in New York City can vote on union representation by the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians, a National Labor Relations Board official has held.
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July 30, 2025
The full D.C. Circuit on Wednesday chose not to take a second look at a panel ruling that stayed a district court decision blocking the U.S. State Department from implementing President Donald Trump's executive order gutting collective bargaining rights for federal workers.
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July 30, 2025
The National Labor Relations Board's Division of Advice rescinded its previous determination that an HVAC services company enforced an unlawfully overbroad nonsolicitation provision in an employment agreement, finding the worker who signed the pact was not a statutory employee.
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July 30, 2025
A Missouri federal judge used the wrong approach when weighing GE's eligibility for a pension law exemption intended for construction employers, a union pension fund told the Eighth Circuit, saying the approach let GE skirt $230 million in pension obligations by painting an exaggerated picture of its construction employment.
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July 30, 2025
Leo Li of Seyfarth Shaw LLP has championed clients facing wage-and-hour class actions and California Private Attorneys General Act claims, including by securing a win on appeal for a Southern California Pizza Hut franchisee after a decade of litigation involving thousands of delivery drivers, earning him a spot among employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 30, 2025
Camden County, New Jersey, pays telecommunication services workers who fall under protected classes — such as veterans and people of color — less than their counterparts who are not classified as such, a Communications Workers of America unit said in a proposed class action.
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July 30, 2025
A Washington federal judge has paused a union pension fund's suit seeking nearly $1.2 million after, the suit says, Honeywell International Inc. stopped contributions and withdrew from the fund, ordering the parties to arbitrate over when the company received notice for its withdrawal liability.
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July 30, 2025
The proliferation of digital surveillance and automated decision systems that monitor and manage workers' activities enables wage theft and algorithmic wage discrimination and requires more robust policymaking, the National Employment Law Project said in a new report. Here, Law360 speaks with two worker advocates from the group about "bossware" and its impact on workers' rights.
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July 29, 2025
The AFL-CIO and six affiliates have joined a bevy of unions in challenging a March executive order that ended collective bargaining rights for federal workers in national security positions, hitting the Trump administration with its fourth lawsuit over the order in Washington, D.C., federal court Tuesday.
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July 29, 2025
An auto parts maker dropped its Sixth Circuit case claiming the National Labor Relations Board's structure flouts the U.S. Constitution, ending the dispute weeks after the appellate panel appeared unlikely to side with the company.
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July 29, 2025
Flight attendants for United Airlines have rejected a tentative agreement the Association of Flight Attendants reached with the airline in May, the union announced Tuesday.
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July 29, 2025
A roofing and siding manufacturer is fighting the claim that it owes a Teamsters health insurance fund $26 million, saying in a new Employee Retirement Income Security Act lawsuit in New Jersey federal court that the fund conjured up the debt through a "nonsense" audit.