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March 14, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board's decision loosening the standard for ordering employers to bargain based on labor law violations is likely to change how courts weigh granting injunctions requested by agency prosecutors, experts said, though it remains to be seen whether that shift will lead to more or fewer injunctions.
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March 14, 2024
Dartmouth College must bargain with its men's basketball team after the National Labor Relations Board certified the players' recent landmark vote to unionize with the Service Employees International Union on Thursday, but a legal challenge looms.
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March 14, 2024
A National Labor Relations Board official gave the green light to nurses at an Indiana nursing home to vote on representation by a Teamsters local, rejecting the facility's argument that the nurses are union-ineligible supervisors.
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March 14, 2024
The D.C. Circuit should uphold a National Labor Relations Board decision finding a real estate management firm illegally fired a union supporter, the board argued, saying evidence doesn't back the company's claim that it lawfully terminated the worker because he hadn't been vaccinated against COVID-19.
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March 13, 2024
A group of farmworkers unions and nonprofits that advocate for farmworkers' interests have sued the U.S. Department of Labor in Washington, D.C., federal court, saying the agency hasn't been complying with a 1980 regulation designed to improve its enforcement of farmworkers' legal protections.
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March 13, 2024
Volunteer ski patrol workers must be included in a proposed bargaining unit at a Colorado ski resort, an NLRB official found Wednesday, siding with the employer's bid to broaden the unit in a representation election with the Communications Worker of America.
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March 13, 2024
An Oregon federal court has scheduled an August hearing on the Federal Trade Commission's challenge of Kroger's planned $24.6 billion purchase of fellow grocery store giant Albertsons, a deal also under attack by state enforcers in Washington and Colorado.
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March 13, 2024
A production company that worked on the 2020 film "Roe v. Wade" must pay SAG-AFTRA about $382,000 in a dispute over actors' salaries and benefits, a California federal judge ruled, confirming an arbitration award and granting the union's attorney fee request.
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March 13, 2024
A Service Employees International Union local won its request to pause an election in which workers would choose which of two other security officers' unions would represent them, with the National Labor Relations Board indicating it may consider shifting board precedent for union intervention in representation votes.
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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.