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October 05, 2026
The First Circuit Monday appeared skeptical that a lower court erred in backing Harvard University in a suit over the Trump administration's bid to freeze more than $2 billion in grant funding, suggesting that the case had been decided in the proper venue.
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October 05, 2026
A Maine hospital urged the National Labor Relations Board to review a regional director's refusal to pause a union election in order to consider a pending unfair labor practice charge, arguing that the board should consider how selective election blocking requests should be handled in "closely related" representation cases.
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October 05, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned away an appeal of a Third Circuit ruling involving a number of labor issues, including the National Labor Relations Board's heightened remedies and the level of deference courts owe the agency.
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October 05, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied a Native American tribe's challenge to an arbitrator's decision requiring it to follow election rules in an agreement with a UNITE HERE local that the tribe said violated tribal law.
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October 05, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a trucking company's bid to reverse a National Labor Relations Board order requiring it to bargain with a union, leaving in place a Fourth Circuit decision that found the order was supported by substantial evidence.
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October 02, 2026
A New York federal judge has declined to toss a lawsuit by unions accusing federal immigration agencies of using artificial intelligence to surveil noncitizens' online activity, finding that immigration law does not bar the suit because it does not challenge the removal proceedings of any individual.
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October 02, 2026
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Friday denied Starbucks Corp.'s bid to escape a lawsuit from a union representing over 12,000 Starbucks workers seeking a declaration the union can continue using Starbucks' logo and name, saying the union had done enough to show an actual controversy exists to be litigated.
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October 02, 2026
A New York federal judge ruled three union benefit funds can pursue an antitrust suit against New York Presbyterian Hospital without first proving it holds a large market share in the city, rejecting the hospital's motion to toss the suit on Friday.
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October 02, 2026
An International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers local has urged the National Labor Relations Board to reject a challenge to 90-year-old precedent requiring unions to win only majorities of those who vote in representation elections, saying this long-standing policy aligns with the law and court precedent.
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October 02, 2026
An apprenticeship and training fund has sued a New Jersey township in state court over a project labor agreement in its 2026 paving project, claiming the agreement prevents the United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union from placing apprentices on the project.
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October 02, 2026
Labor and employment law firm Fisher Phillips has launched a new Miami office with help from boutique firm Zumpano Castro.
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October 02, 2026
A National Labor Relations Board prosecutor has urged an administrative law judge to overturn a Biden-era standard that made it more difficult for employers to unilaterally change the working conditions of its employees, claiming the standard wrongly overruled previous board decisions and departed from U.S. Supreme Court precedent.
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October 02, 2026
In the week ahead, attorneys should watch for a hearing on a motion to dismiss a hostile work environment suit by a former U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission career official. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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October 01, 2026
A New York federal court has refused to toss a lawsuit brought by tennis players and a players association accusing tournament operators and the sport's governing bodies of blocking competition from rival tournaments.
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October 01, 2026
Workers at a Starbucks store in Kansas can vote on whether to oust an independent labor organization that formed amidst Workers United's nationwide campaign to unionize the company's stores, an official for the National Labor Relations Board ruled on Thursday.
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October 01, 2026
A United Food & Commercial Workers local has urged a Maryland federal judge to toss a former Port of Baltimore worker's lawsuit challenging his termination, saying the amended claims in the case still fail to adequately allege the union breached its own duty of representation.
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October 01, 2026
A used-book store in Florida did not violate federal labor law when it fired a worker who complained about her pay to co-workers, a National Labor Relations Board administrative law judge held, saying the worker's concerns were not focused on improving broader conditions at the store.
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October 01, 2026
A Colorado federal court has sent an airline industry group's challenge to the state's paid sick leave law to trial, finding that competing expert testimony about whether the law increases employee absences and disrupts airline services creates factual disputes that a judge cannot resolve before trial.
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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.