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April 03, 2026
Cigna retirees will ask the Second Circuit to revive a 24-year-old pension dispute, and the Seventh Circuit will hear a company's withdrawal liability fight with the Teamsters. Here, Law360 looks at those and two other argument sessions that benefits attorneys should have on their radar.
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April 02, 2026
The operator of Seattle's Space Needle has asked a Washington federal court to reverse an arbitrator's order to reinstate a fired worker, arguing that discharge was the correct discipline for a worker who violated several workplace rules while spending time with an ex-coworker who visited her at work.
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April 02, 2026
The government must publicly identify more than a dozen Department of Government Efficiency agents in a lawsuit alleging the U.S. Office of Personnel Management unlawfully gave DOGE access to millions of federal employees' personal information, a Manhattan federal judge has ruled, saying the staffers are not entitled to confidentiality.
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April 02, 2026
The Teamsters' recent settlement with Amazon resolving allegations that the company unlawfully deducted time off from striking workers without restoring it could boost the union's pitch to employees as it seeks to organize the e-commerce giant, experts said.
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April 02, 2026
An employer's requirement that new hires disclose medical conditions and agree to drug and alcohol testing doesn't violate federal labor law because it doesn't touch on organizing rights, a National Labor Relations Board official said in a letter dismissing a charge.
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April 02, 2026
A Service Employees International Union unit has urged a Virginia federal court to enforce two arbitration awards requiring a janitorial services contractor to comply with the terms of an agreement between the parties, arguing that the agreement is a valid labor contract.
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April 02, 2026
A union healthcare fund has beaten back a class action accusing it of wrongfully charging Southern California workers higher rates than Las Vegas workers, with an Illinois federal judge holding that the class hasn't shown the fund violated the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.
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April 02, 2026
A Massachusetts federal judge Thursday granted initial approval to a $35 million deal that Teva Pharmaceuticals agreed to pay to resolve claims from a coalition of union healthcare funds that say the company schemed to delay generic competition for its QVAR asthma inhalers.
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April 02, 2026
Cannabis giant Curaleaf violated federal labor law when it refused to bargain with a United Food and Commercial Workers Union local in Massachusetts, the National Labor Relations Board ruled.
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April 01, 2026
A Ninth Circuit panel Wednesday reversed a district court ruling that voided arbitration agreements between Aya Healthcare Services Inc. and more than 250 employees, ruling that the lower court erred when it used the individual findings of two arbitrators to nix the agreements entirely.
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April 01, 2026
Amazon violated federal labor law by refusing to bargain with a union that won a landmark representation election at a Staten Island warehouse, the National Labor Relations Board ruled Wednesday, setting up the company to challenge the union's certification in federal court.
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April 01, 2026
A union and a contractors association have beaten back allegations that they coerce employers into making excessive contributions to a union benefit fund, with a New Jersey federal judge tossing a proposed class action filed by a contractor last year.
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April 01, 2026
An Illinois federal judge tossed a nonprofit's lawsuit claiming that University of Chicago graduate students were forced to pay fees to a union that the organization said was antisemitic, finding the disputed fee arrangement isn't considered a state action that falls within the scope of the First Amendment.
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April 01, 2026
National Labor Relations Board prosecutors urged an agency judge to find that a software maker illegally fired a worker for sharing a rumor about impending layoffs, saying his message was protected in itself and as a possible trigger for collective action.
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April 01, 2026
The U.S. Departments of Labor and Health and Human Services must continue facing claims that they illegally gave Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency access to employee records, as a D.C. federal judge denied the agencies' bid to escape the union-brought allegations before the trial phase.
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April 01, 2026
Amazon has urged a National Labor Relations Board judge to toss allegations that it increased upper management presence at a San Francisco warehouse after the workers began organizing with the Teamsters, arguing that the company's actions were unrelated to union activity.
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March 31, 2026
A Service Employees International Union unit is stretching an arbitrator's finding that a hospital unfairly punished a worker who tested positive for cannabis use by seeking to restrict drug tests going forward, the hospital argued Tuesday in its bid to beat an Ohio federal suit.
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March 31, 2026
A group of workers at a California container shipping company can't vote on representation by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, a National Labor Relations Board official ruled Tuesday, finding that the employees are considered supervisors under federal labor law.
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March 31, 2026
The Teamsters union reached a tentative agreement with school bus operator First Student Inc., the union announced Tuesday, avoiding a nationwide strike that would have involved thousands of school bus employees across 96 union locals.
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March 31, 2026
The Teamsters and Amazon have reached a settlement to stop the company from not restoring unpaid time off it deducts from workers who go on strike, the union announced Tuesday in a development it said will encourage workers to join the union's organizing push.
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March 31, 2026
A Michigan hospital has urged a federal court to toss a lawsuit alleging it is refusing to arbitrate claims that it removed more than $500,000 in retirement health account credits owed to registered nurses, arguing the dispute falls outside the terms of its collective bargaining agreement with the nurses union bringing the claims.
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March 30, 2026
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has responded to a Rhode Island federal judge's order to resume complying with a union contract by shredding the contract and appealing the order, arguing that a White House decree prevents it from reengaging with an American Federation of Government Employees local.
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March 30, 2026
The federal government urged a New York federal court to toss allegations that the Trump administration is using a surveillance system to find viewpoints it doesn't like and use the threat of immigration enforcement to suppress speech, arguing the unions behind the suit lack standing to bring their claims.
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March 30, 2026
Federal labor law didn't protect a Netflix worker's social media post that included a password-protected link to a meeting that contained confidential business information, National Labor Relations Board attorneys said in an advice memo released Monday that recommended dismissing a case accusing the streaming giant of unlawfully firing the employee.
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March 30, 2026
A shuttered New Jersey steel company violated federal labor law by largely snubbing its employees' union when it went out of business, the National Labor Relations Board ruled, saying the company had an obligation to work out a deal with the union over the closure's impact on workers.