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October 01, 2026
The National Labor Relations Board has revived a metal company's challenge to an Iron Workers' representation election win in a divided decision, saying a local union official's comment that a voter would not be charged a reinstatement fee if the union won may have tainted the election.
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October 01, 2026
A Starbucks store in Virginia committed a host of federal labor law violations after its employees sought to unionize and Workers United was certified as the representative for a unit of its employees, a National Labor Relations Board judge has ruled.
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September 30, 2026
The National Labor Relations Board engaged in rulemaking disguised as adjudication in a 2022 decision that held employers cannot cease withholding dues from employee paychecks after the expiration of a labor contract, Kroger told the Fifth Circuit in its challenge to a board ruling that it violated the new rule.
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September 30, 2026
A Massachusetts hospital asked a federal court to declare that a Service Employees International Union local cannot arbitrate its class action grievance alleging the hospital failed to correct violations of a collective bargaining agreement, saying it is not liable for claims arising before it acquired the hospital.
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September 30, 2026
The First Circuit has declined to vacate an arbitration award ordering Harvard University to include a group of doctoral psychology students in a bargaining unit for graduate student workers, rejecting the college's claims that the dispute can't be arbitrated.
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September 30, 2026
It would be prohibitively tough to prove a fire sprinkler company violated federal labor law by rejecting several union organizers for jobs given evidence it exclusively hired workers who, unlike these "salts," had been referred, a National Labor Relations Board attorney said in newly released guidance.
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September 30, 2026
A group of building trade unions have joined with OpenAI and a collection of businesses to form a coalition aiming to steer state and local regulations on the development of data centers.
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September 29, 2026
A Texas Business Court judge pared back the scope of claims brought by the pilots union for Southwest Airlines against The Boeing Co. after regulators grounded the 737 Max aircraft, saying Monday that the pilots can recover only direct damages, not damages from secondary injuries.
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September 29, 2026
The Ninth Circuit has upheld a ruling tossing claims that an affiliate of the Service Employees International Union forged a government employee's signature on a dues authorization form, ruling that the employee failed to show she faces an "immediate" threat of injury.
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September 29, 2026
Greenberg Traurig has hired a former Carlton Fields attorney in West Palm Beach to help lead the continued growth of the Florida office's labor and employment practice, the firm announced on Tuesday.
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September 29, 2026
The Tenth Circuit on Tuesday backed a group of union retirees who alleged they were wrongly denied early retirement benefits from a multiemployer pension plan after they withdrew from work that was covered by a collective bargaining agreement, reviving one of their claims while rejecting an appeal from the plan's trustees.
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September 29, 2026
A recently enacted New York law that creates fines for impersonating unions violates the U.S. Constitution by restricting nonunions' rights to inform government workers that they may withhold dues, an anti-union group argued in a new suit seeking to block the law.
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September 29, 2026
A Massachusetts kindergarten teacher is suing to redo arbitration over her firing, saying the arbitrator who affirmed the school's decision used artificial intelligence to vet her claims that the principal relied on AI to prepare her final, negative performance evaluation.
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September 29, 2026
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission asked a D.C. federal judge to toss a union's claim that the agency told its in-house court to stop processing federal workers' class actions, saying the agency didn't issue such a directive and the union lacks standing to sue.
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September 29, 2026
The National Labor Relations Board has partially granted Stanford's challenge to a regional director's decision requiring the university to produce a voter list for an upcoming representation election, ruling that a student who filed an objection to the subpoena can have their private information excluded from the disclosure.
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September 28, 2026
A quarter of employers say their senior leaders feel disconnected from front-line employees even as the vast majority say they emphasize engaging their employees, according to a Littler Mendelson PC survey released Tuesday that also includes revelations on artificial intelligence adoption and preparedness.
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September 28, 2026
The procedural findings underlying the National Labor Relations Board's recent repudiation of a Biden-era decision that gave workers some cover for outbursts leave some uncertainty about the board's view of the issue, and may make some precedential decisions more vulnerable to challenge.
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September 28, 2026
A billion-dollar dairy cooperative that is trying to shutter a century-old creamery in Vermont cannot revoke the staff's health insurance until it resolves a dispute with a Teamsters local over whether the shutdown is lawful, a state federal judge ruled Monday, partially granting the union's request for an injunction.
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September 28, 2026
The Second Circuit on Monday rejected a former United Airlines employee's bid to force arbitration of a grievance over his firing after a Teamsters local declined to pursue it, ruling that the worker waived his right to pursue the grievance on his own.
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September 28, 2026
An energy company urged the National Labor Relations Board to review a regional director's decision to certify an International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers local as the representative for a unit of its employees in Illinois, claiming it's "high time" for the board to reconsider a long-standing certification standard.
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September 28, 2026
The National Labor Relations Board should give its regional directors guidance on when they may schedule a union decertification election at an employer that stands accused of violating federal labor law, Republican board member Scott Mayer said in a footnote to a recent decision.
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September 25, 2026
The Fifth Circuit should toss an AT&T retailer's challenge to the National Labor Relations Board's ban on broad nondisclosure agreements in severance pacts, the agency said Friday, fighting the company's argument that gag rules should be considered lawful unless the employer's enforcement of them would violate labor law.
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September 25, 2026
A recent National Labor Relations Board decision finding that documents covered by attorney-client privilege do not need to be disclosed in union information requests could increase litigation over privilege claims at the board and affect how employers approach grievance arbitration, experts said.
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September 25, 2026
Railroad industry groups are asking the Eleventh Circuit to hold an en banc rehearing after a split panel rejected their challenge to a 2024 Federal Railroad Administration rule requiring two-person train crews, saying the panel's decision expands agency authority and goes against Supreme Court precedent.
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September 25, 2026
A coalition of labor unions and the U.S. Department of Justice have agreed to settle claims in a dispute challenging the layoffs of federal employees that occurred during the 2025 government shutdown, according to an agreement filed by the parties.