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Michigan Hospital’s Union Election Challenge Fails Before NLRB
A Michigan hospital failed to overturn a union election victory...
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NLRB Expands Definition of Retaliation for Grievance Filing in Recent Decision
The National Labor Relations Board has clarified in a recent...
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Federal Contractor Faces Liability Over Teamsters Withdrawal Decision
A military communications contractor is facing significant NLRB liability over...
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Aquarium Seeks NLRB Review of Union Decertification Delay
California's Monterey Bay Aquarium has asked the National Labor Relations...
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Wage and Hour Enforcement Priorities Shift Under New DOL Leadership
The U.S. Department of Labor under new leadership is signaling...
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NLRB to Reconsider Arbitrator Authority Over Statutory Wage Claims
The National Labor Relations Board is moving toward reconsidering how...
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New State Laws on Construction Reporting Time Pay Take Effect This Fall
Several states are implementing new laws in coming weeks regarding...
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NLRB Judge Finds Water Company Unlawfully Fired Striker; Company Challenges Analysis
A Detroit water infrastructure company has asked the NLRB to...
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Contractors Face Scrutiny Over Wage Reporting Rules for Apprentices
Construction employers are facing increased scrutiny over reporting requirements for...
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NLRB Approves $3.6M Settlement in Striker Rehiring Dispute
National Labor Relations Board officials have approved a $3.6 million...
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NLRB Blocks Third Circuit’s Move to Restrict Labor Board Authority in Injunction Cases
The National Labor Relations Board has urged a federal appellate...
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Military Contractor Unlawfully Aided Teamsters Union Decertification, NLRB Judge Rules
A military communications contractor violated federal labor law by secretly...
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Amazon Challenges Union Election Win at Staten Island Warehouse Over Campaign Conduct
Amazon has asked the Fifth Circuit to overturn a union's...
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NLRB Reverses Regional Director: Warehouse Workers Can Join Existing Union Unit
The National Labor Relations Board has reversed a regional director's...
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Sixth Circuit Signals NLRB Injunctions May Be Harder to Obtain Against Refusing Employers
The Sixth Circuit has dissolved an NLRB-obtained injunction requiring an...
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California Court Examines Arbitration Consent When Workers Don’t Open Consent Emails
The Ninth Circuit is grappling with a distinctive arbitration question:...
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New York City Imposes $2.3M in Wage and Scheduling Fines Against Major Retailers
New York City has secured more than $2.3 million in...
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VA Claims NLRB Plan Violates Union Contract Despite Injunction
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is facing union claims...
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D.C. Circuit’s Ruling on Deference May Imperil NLRB Doctrines
A D.C. Circuit ruling this week rejected a National Labor...
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Second Circuit Backs Nurses in Staffing Dispute Against Healthcare and Construction Contractor
The Second Circuit has backed nurses in a staffing dispute...
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EEOC Takes Key Step Toward Scrapping Decades-Old Workplace Data Reporting
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission voted Tuesday to publish...
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NLRB Board Nominees Advance on Tight Timeline for Maintaining Quorum
The clock is ticking for Congress to avoid another quorum...
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Sixth Circuit Won’t Reconsider Union Lockout Decision in Paving Company Case
The Sixth Circuit has declined to reconsider its decision finding...
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Second Circuit: CBA Arbitration Clauses Cannot Override Statutory Wage Claims
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has delivered a significant...
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NLRB General Counsel Issues Memo Signaling Shift on Noncompete Agreements
The National Labor Relations Board’s general counsel has issued a...
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Amazon Appears to Engineer Test Case for NLRB’s Union Policy
Amazon appears to have strategically provoked a National Labor Relations...
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Supreme Court Ruling Reshapes NLRB Leadership and Presidential Power
The U.S. Supreme Court delivered a landmark decision this week...
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Fifth Circuit Sides With Starbucks, Reverses NLRB Union Ruling
A federal appeals court has sided with Starbucks in a...
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Labor Department Finalizes Expanded Union Financial Reporting Requirements
The Department of Labor has finalized changes to union financial...
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Starbucks Faces Tough Questions During Labor Appeal Hearing
A Fifth Circuit judge pressed Starbucks during oral arguments in...
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Amazon Union Defends New York’s NLRB Backup Enforcement Law
The Amazon Labor Union is urging a federal judge to...
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New Jersey Judge Allows Bias Claims Against Ironworkers Local to Proceed
A New Jersey judge has refused to dismiss a state...
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Supreme Court Leaves Teamsters Pension Investment Case Intact
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review a lawsuit...
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Eighth Circuit Sides With GE in $230 Million Pension Liability Dispute
The Eighth Circuit has affirmed that General Electric is not...
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Texas Court’s Permanent NLRB Block Raises Questions, But May Not Signal a Trend
A Texas federal judge recently delivered one of the strongest...
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Midwest Paving Company Pushes Sixth Circuit to Reconsider Lockout Decision
A paving and road construction company is asking the Sixth...
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Proposed Amazon Labor Settlement Echoes Earlier McDonald’s Controversy
A proposed settlement involving claims that Amazon jointly employs contracted...
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D.C. Circuit Speeds Review of Truck Driver Licensing Restrictions
The D.C. Circuit has agreed to fast-track litigation over the...
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Sixth Circuit Ruling May Raise Bar for NLRB Emergency Injunctions
A recent Sixth Circuit decision scrutinizing the National Labor Relations...
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Illinois Contractor Seeks to Void Union Arbitration Award
An Illinois construction company is asking a federal court to...
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Carpenters Pension Settlement Highlights Risks of Alternative Investments
Union carpenters and retirement plan trustees have reached a proposed...
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Virginia Nears Major Expansion of Public Employee Bargaining Rights
Virginia appears poised to significantly expand collective bargaining rights for...
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Push for Faster First Union Contracts Faces Rising Business Resistance
A bipartisan-backed proposal aimed at speeding negotiations for first union...
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Amazon Faces Difficult Path in Expected Challenge to Union Certification
Amazon is expected to continue fighting the National Labor Relations...
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ADA Claim Against Union Dismissed Over Lack of Notice
A federal court has dismissed a worker’s disability discrimination claim...
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Federal Labor Fight Over Union Contracts Continues
A year after a sweeping executive order targeting federal union...
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Amazon Prevails in Warehouse Screening Time Case
A New York federal court has dismissed claims that Amazon...
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Court Orders VA to Reinstate Union Relationships
A federal judge has ordered the Department of Veterans Affairs...
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New NLRB Chairman Signals Leadership Shift
President Donald Trump has appointed James Murphy as chairman of...
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NLRB Declines to Expand UPS Bargaining Unit
The National Labor Relations Board has rejected a union’s attempt...
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Cognizant Whistleblower Case Puts Hiring Practices Under Microscope
A federal jury is hearing claims that Cognizant terminated an...
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Washington’s NLRB “Fill-In” Law Faces Familiar Preemption Hurdles
Washington has joined a growing group of states attempting to...
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Teamsters Push DOJ to Expand Labor’s Role in Antitrust Review
The Teamsters are urging the U.S. Department of Justice to...
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Eighth Circuit Scales Back NLRB Ruling on Union Recognition
The Eighth Circuit has partially reversed a National Labor Relations...
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First Union Contracts Still Out of Reach at High-Profile Employers
Several years after headline-grabbing organizing wins at major companies, many...
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Sixth Circuit Rejects NLRB’s Cemex Framework
A split Sixth Circuit panel has ruled that the NLRB...
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NLRB Moves to Tackle Growing Case Backlog
Facing more than 16,000 pending cases, the National Labor Relations...
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NLRB GC’s New Approach May Ease Work Rule Disputes
Recent guidance from the NLRB’s general counsel is expected to...
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Labor Lawyers Warn of Risks From a Weakened NLRB
At a recent American Bar Association conference, labor and employment...
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Amazon Pushes to Permanently Block New York’s “Fill-In” Labor Law
Amazon has asked a federal court to permanently strike down...
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NLRB General Counsel Signals Pullback on Workplace Rules Enforcement
The National Labor Relations Board’s general counsel has directed regional...
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NLRB Finds Amazon’s Education Benefit Reminder Lawful During Union Drive
The National Labor Relations Board has upheld a judge’s finding...
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Appeal May Redefine Boundaries of Protected Group Activity
An appeal of an NLRB administrative judge’s ruling protecting a...
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NLRB Narrows Scope of Information Violation in Telecom Dispute
The National Labor Relations Board has partially reversed an administrative...
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NLRB Declines to Revisit Captive Audience Meeting Ban — For Now
The National Labor Relations Board’s two newly seated Republican members...
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Ninth Circuit Revives $4.1M Union Health Plan Dispute
A divided Ninth Circuit panel reversed a district court decision...
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Supreme Court Examines Pension Withdrawal Liability Calculations
The Supreme Court is set to examine how employers’ withdrawal...
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NLRB Issues First Published Decision After Regaining Quorum
After regaining the members necessary to act officially, the NLRB...
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NLRB Staffing Losses Raise Questions About Enforcement Capacity
The National Labor Relations Board has lost nearly 200 positions...
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State Expansion of Disparate Impact Creates Compliance Patchwork
Recent legislative changes in New York and New Jersey codifying...
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Administration Seeks to Vacate Injunctions Protecting Federal CBAs
The Trump administration has asked the D.C. Circuit to overturn...
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DHS Blocked Again From Ending TSA Collective Bargaining Agreement
A Washington federal court has again stopped the Department of...
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Former NLRB Member Warns Against Threat to Board Independence
Former NLRB member Gwynne Wilcox is urging the D.C. Circuit...
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Court Decision Leaves Little of California’s NLRB Fill-In Law Standing
A federal court ruling blocking California from substituting its labor...
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PG&E’s $100M Investor Settlement Highlights Governance Fallout of Wildfires
Pacific Gas & Electric has agreed to pay $100 million...
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Kaiser Employee Pushes to Keep Race Bias Suit Alive
A Kaiser Permanente employee has asked a California federal judge...
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Union Seeks Enforcement of Arbitration Award Reinstating Driver
A labor union is urging a Virginia federal court to...
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Federal Agencies Ask Ninth Circuit to Lift Layoff Freeze
The federal government has asked the Ninth Circuit to pause...
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Fifth Circuit Refuses to Reopen Nexstar Unionization Fight
The Fifth Circuit has declined Nexstar Media’s request to revisit...
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Unions Push Back on Claim DOGE Data Lawsuit Is Moot
A coalition of unions is urging a New York federal...
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Ninth Circuit Reopens Debate on Union Work Assignment Authority
The full Ninth Circuit has agreed to reconsider precedent governing...
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New York AG Accuses UPS of Shortchanging Seasonal Workers
New York Attorney General Letitia James has accused UPS of...
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NLRB Warns Against States Filling Federal Labor Enforcement Void
The National Labor Relations Board is urging a California federal...
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Teamsters Local Defends Decision Not to Arbitrate Worker’s Termination
A Teamsters local has asked a Michigan federal court to...
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Supreme Court Lets Stand Ruling Allowing Employers to Halt NLRB Cases
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review a Fifth...
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Starbucks’ $39M NYC Fair Workweek Settlement Raises the Stakes for Scheduling Compliance
Starbucks has agreed to pay nearly $39 million to resolve...
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Sixth Circuit Signals Zero Tolerance for Stonewalling in Union Records Disputes
The Sixth Circuit has delivered a sharp reminder that compliance...
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Teamsters Break New Ground Organizing Amazon Truck Drivers
The Teamsters announced a milestone: the successful organization of their...
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Ninth Circuit May Reengage With NLRB’s Cemex Framework Challenge
The National Labor Relations Board has asked the Ninth Circuit...
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Starbucks Workers Launch Expanding Strike as Labor Tensions Escalate Nationwide
An open-ended strike by Starbucks workers began Thursday at 65...
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