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September 23, 2026
A billion-dollar dairy cooperative that is trying to close a century-old creamery in Vermont shouldn't be allowed to revoke the staff's health insurance while the staff's union argues that the shutdown is unlawful, the Teamsters local representing the creamery's workers argued, seeking an injunction in Vermont federal court.
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September 23, 2026
A librarian at the Brooklyn Public Library is challenging a requirement in its collective bargaining agreement compelling employees to pay union dues in order to continue working at the library, according to a complaint filed in New York federal court.
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September 23, 2026
The National Labor Relations Board's expanded Republican majority reversed its first precedent on Wednesday, nixing a set of discipline tests that gave workers leeway to lose their cool during pickets and other actions the National Labor Relations Act protects.
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September 23, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit should affirm a Florida federal judge's finding that a high-speed rail operator is subject to the Railway Labor Act, the National Mediation Board argued, saying the operator can't wriggle its way out of complying because it runs an intercity rather than interstate rail line.
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September 23, 2026
The state of California has urged a federal court to grant it an early win in the National Labor Relations Board's challenge of a state law allowing the state labor board to perform certain duties if the national board cannot, arguing that the law is not preempted by federal labor law.
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September 22, 2026
A train conductor should not be allowed to reopen a case accusing Amtrak and her union of teaming up to prevent her from advancing in union leadership, the railroad and union argued, asking a Connecticut federal judge to toss the conductor's bid to revive the settled discrimination suit.
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September 22, 2026
The National Labor Relations Board's constitutional flaws don't excuse an employer's refusal to bargain with a certified union, the agency told the Fifth Circuit on Tuesday, saying the court's endorsement of challenges to board officials' job protections doesn't support a grocer's challenge to a board decision.
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September 22, 2026
A court order winding down a long-standing monitorship marks the end of an era for the Teamsters as it transitions to an entirely internal discipline system, though experts said the order's preservation of direct elections keeps intact a key factor that kept organized crime's influence out of the union.
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September 22, 2026
A Southern California port employer and its subsidiaries urged the D.C. Circuit to review a National Labor Relations Board decision finding that the employer unlawfully transferred union work without negotiating with a union beforehand, according to petitions filed on Monday and Tuesday with the circuit court.
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September 22, 2026
A federal judge granted the University of Pittsburgh summary judgment Tuesday for most of the claims brought by a business school professor who said he was disciplined and denied an appeal over sexual harassment complaints.
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September 22, 2026
BAE Systems Inc. has asked a D.C. federal court to vacate an arbitrator's award ordering it to pay an International Association of Machinists pension fund roughly $16.2 million, claiming the calculation of the company's withdrawal liability was not done in accordance with federal benefits law.
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September 22, 2026
Management-side labor and employment firm Jackson Lewis PC announced Monday that it has launched an artificial intelligence and innovation group to help clients navigate an evolving legal and regulatory landscape.
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September 22, 2026
The Third Circuit should affirm the National Labor Relations Board's finding that a beverage-bottling company violated labor law by ordering a worker to remove a union sticker, the agency argued, saying no evidence in the case record supports the company's argument that it targeted the sticker for food-safety reasons.
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September 22, 2026
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore pitched a broad plan Tuesday to regulate artificial intelligence that included a directive for state agencies to issue guidance to address a dearth of clarity on the interplay between AI and workplace discrimination.
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September 21, 2026
A group representing California community health clinics has accused a Service Employees International Union affiliate of violating the federal anti-racketeering law, claiming in a new lawsuit that the union places manipulative ballot initiatives before California voters and only withdraws them if the clinics concede to its demands.
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September 21, 2026
The Second Circuit gave a cool reception Monday to a former United Airlines employee's attempt to force arbitration of a grievance over his firing after a Teamsters local declined to pursue it, with judges suggesting it was the union's right to advance the claim as it saw appropriate.
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September 21, 2026
A New Jersey federal court on Monday upheld an arbitration award ordering a concrete supplier to rehire an employee who was fired after he tested positive for marijuana, rejecting the company's claim that an arbitrator exceeded her authority when issuing the award.
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September 21, 2026
A bid by Google to buy data from defunct Spirit Airlines could signal the opening of a new frontier for monetizing assets in bankruptcy cases, but there are questions about how useful the data will actually be to a buyer — especially if too much personally identifiable information ends up being purged due to privacy concerns, experts told Law360.
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September 21, 2026
FedEx has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review the Sixth Circuit's decision to revive two proposed class actions alleging Kellogg's and FedEx's outdated actuarial assumptions shortchanged joint-and-survivor benefits for retirees, claiming the circuit court's "erroneous" interpretation of federal benefits law warrants high court review.
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September 21, 2026
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP has grown its labor and employment offerings with the addition of a senior corporate counsel at Amazon, the firm said Monday.
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September 18, 2026
A split Seventh Circuit panel upheld a decision denying the National Labor Relations Board's bid to reinstate a truck-seller's union, with the majority finding that the union hasn't shown irreparable harm justifying such "extraordinary relief," while a dissenting judge criticized the majority for making harm nearly impossible to show.
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September 18, 2026
Two interest groups asking the Seventh Circuit to revive their challenge to an Illinois law banning captive audience meetings by employers faced pointed questions Friday about whether the law has injured them at all, with one judge saying their suit is based on a "series of ifs."
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September 18, 2026
A Chicago-area excavation company has dodged an obligation to pay about $182,000 to an International Union of Operating Engineers local's scholarship fund, with an Illinois federal judge ruling Friday that a 2023 arbitration award can't be enforced against the company.
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September 18, 2026
An Ohio federal court rejected a patent attorney's suit looking to stop U.S. Patent and Trademark Office disciplinary proceedings against him, saying Friday that he misread a "plain, unambiguous and easily understood" statute in making his failed constitutional challenge.
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September 18, 2026
A Rhode Island federal judge on Friday vacated the Trump administration's decision to cancel a $7 billion solar program for low-income households, ruling that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency lacked authority to terminate grant funding previously awarded.