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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.
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September 25, 2026
Spirit Airlines' flight attendants' union has told a New York bankruptcy judge that the bankrupt airline has reduced the amount of business data it's proposing to sell to Google for artificial intelligence training, but the files still might include data protected by the union's contract.
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September 25, 2026
A western unit of the American Automobile Association violated federal labor law by bargaining in bad faith with its workers' union, a National Labor Relations Board judge has ruled, saying the company employed dishonest tactics such as going back on an agreement and proposing a dramatic pay cut.
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September 25, 2026
A group of unions and workers' rights advocates has asked the Second Circuit to lift the block on a municipal ordinance banning Uber and Lyft from kicking drivers out of the app without a formal notice or an investigation, claiming the district court was wrong to stop the law.
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September 25, 2026
In the week ahead, attorneys should watch for Ninth Circuit oral arguments in Aya Healthcare Services Inc.'s attempt to revive a motion to compel arbitration in a wage and hour suit by travel clinicians. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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September 25, 2026
This week, the Second Circuit will consider whether to revive a suit brought by former employees with the Orange County, New York, Sheriff's Office who claim they were fired because they supported the sheriff's opponent in an election.
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September 24, 2026
Illinois Supreme Court justices wrestled Thursday with whether the city of Chicago's history of publicly adjudicating allegations of the most serious police misconduct can establish a statewide public policy requiring open proceedings, while questioning a city police union on why transparency and promoting trust in law enforcement don't justify public attendance.
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September 24, 2026
A New York federal judge gave Novartis permanent relief from a proposed class action alleging it monopolistically delayed generic competition for its blockbuster heart failure drug Entresto, concluding that the drugmaker properly used a patent to ensure exclusivity.