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March 12, 2024
Trader Joe's violated federal labor law by threatening workers at a Kentucky store with the elimination of raises over their potential backing for an independent union, according to National Labor Relations Board prosecutors' complaint obtained by Law360 on Tuesday.
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March 12, 2024
Federal labor law doesn't preempt parts of a Service Employees International Union-backed ordinance increasing the hourly minimum wage to $25 for healthcare workers in a California city, a federal court ruled, while finding one section of the law could interfere with collective bargaining.
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March 12, 2024
The chair of the House Education and Workforce Committee has subpoenaed a New York City-area union that represents legal aid attorneys, demanding that the union hand over documents related to the passage of a resolution supporting a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war.
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March 12, 2024
The portion of an amendment to an Illinois law regulating temporary labor forces agencies to modify their Employee Retirement Income Security Act plans, a federal judge ruled, granting a group of staffing associations and agencies' bid for an injunction.
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March 12, 2024
Starbucks and Workers United appear poised to begin bargaining in earnest after reaching a detente more than two years after the acrimonious organizing campaign kicked off, but the end of Starbucks' resistance to negotiating doesn't mean deals will follow soon.
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March 12, 2024
The United Steelworkers and other labor unions called on the Biden administration to investigate unfair trade practices in China's shipbuilding sector in a 4,000-page petition Tuesday, calling empty U.S. shipyards a threat to national security and critical supply chains.
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March 12, 2024
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP has added its third litigator this month from Morrison Foerster LLP with the addition of an employment and labor partner in Los Angeles, the firm announced Tuesday.
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March 12, 2024
A transit workers union is not legally responsible for a union health plan employee's unauthorized disclosure of a former union staffer's HIV status, a Maryland federal judge ruled, slicing an invasion of privacy claim off the former employee's discrimination lawsuit against the union.
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March 12, 2024
SpaceX hasn't proven it is an air carrier exempt from the National Labor Relations Board's purview, a divided board panel determined, with the agency's sole Republican member saying he would refer the case to the National Mediation Board to review jurisdiction.
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March 11, 2024
A demolition company has urged a Michigan federal judge to reconsider his finding that the number of labor contracts between its parent association and a union fund was ambiguous and needed more thought by an arbitrator, saying evidence on the record shows that the contractor was bound by just one agreement.
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March 11, 2024
A Texas federal judge's decision late last week vacating the National Labor Relations Board's expanded joint employer test was a welcome development for employers and marks the latest step in a decadelong policy oscillation on when the board will consider two linked entities responsible for the same group of workers.
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March 11, 2024
A Kansas federal judge shot down the Teamsters' request to pause the discovery process in a $137 million lawsuit accusing the union of holding up a necessary corporate restructuring at the now-bankrupt trucking company Yellow Corp., ordering the union to keep producing documents.
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March 11, 2024
President Joe Biden proposed a bump in the National Labor Relations Board's budget to $320 million for the following fiscal year, the White House revealed Monday, presenting another potential increase for the board and "significantly increasing penalties for employers."
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March 11, 2024
Microsoft recognized the Communications Workers of America as the representative of Activision quality assurance employees following a vote count, the union announced, highlighting the parties' agreement that the tech giant remain neutral during organizing campaigns.
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March 09, 2024
A Texas federal judge late Friday struck down a 2023 National Labor Relations Board rule that made it harder for employers to show they are not joint employers, restoring a Trump-era rule that eased the test.
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March 08, 2024
An attorney for an anti-union think tank urged the Ninth Circuit on Friday to revive a pair of lawsuits alleging his public sector employee clients' constitutional rights were violated by union dues being collected against their will, likening the cases to the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark 2018 Janus ruling.
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March 08, 2024
An aircraft mechanics union has asked a Washington federal judge to back an arbitration board's decision ordering Alaska Airlines to reinstate a unionized worker who testified positive for marijuana, saying the award was properly based on the parties' labor contract.
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March 08, 2024
A recent vote by the Dartmouth College men's basketball team to form a union could set the stage for the next round of litigation in shaping the rights of collegiate athletes, but experts told Law360 some steep obstacles could stand in the way of a breakthrough ruling that turns student athletes into full-fledged employees.
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March 08, 2024
The Communications Workers of America-affiliated Alphabet Workers Union said Friday it has filed an unfair labor practice charge against Google and Cognizant, accusing them of laying off YouTube Music's union-represented content operations team in retaliation for organizing.
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March 08, 2024
The Fifth Circuit should uphold a National Labor Relations Board decision finding a worker's LinkedIn message complaining about wages to a customer is protected under federal labor law, the board argued, challenging a logistics company's claims that the worker was lawfully fired.
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March 08, 2024
In this week's Off The Bench, Dartmouth College men's basketball players vote to unionize over the school's objections, a probe into Iowa State University athletes' gambling activities fizzles amid warrantless search allegations, and a Wimbledon champion gets her doping suspension reduced. If you were on the sidelines over the past week, Law360 is here to clue you in on the biggest sports and betting stories that had our readers talking.
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March 08, 2024
The Seventh Circuit should allow an injunction ousting two trustees from a fraud-plagued union benefit fund to take effect, the U.S. Department of Labor told the court, urging it to deny the trustees' bid to stay the injunction.
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March 08, 2024
A Colorado state judge has ruled that a personal injury firm that sued a former attorney for allegedly trying to dodge a prior judgment must face her counterclaim accusing the firm of filing a retaliatory action after she accused it of unfair labor practices.
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March 08, 2024
A California metalworkers' pension plan and its fund manager agreed to end a proposed class action alleging over two dozen retirees had their pension payments slashed even though they were promised full benefits when they retired early, according to an order issued Friday in federal court.
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March 08, 2024
The Fifth Circuit must reconsider its decision over the transfer of SpaceX's National Labor Relations Board constitutionality challenge from Texas to California, the rocket company argued, saying the appeals court has to fix the lower court's incorrect application of a venue standard.