Starbucks violated federal labor law when it told workers at an Affton, Missouri, store to stop posting pro-union flyers in the break room, a National Labor Relations Board judge held Tuesday.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom and California lawmakers announced Friday that they reached a deal with Uber and Lyft to back a measure allowing the state's hundreds of thousands of gig drivers to unionize while treating them as independent contractors.
Organizing among graduate student workers boomed under President Joe Biden as students at more than two dozen private colleges and universities capitalized on a favorable policy climate. That wave has hit a wall under President Donald Trump, whose arrival has also sapped existing unions' leverage.
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Starbucks violated federal labor law when it told workers at an Affton, Missouri, store to stop posting pro-union flyers in the break room, a National Labor Relations Board judge held Tuesday.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom and California lawmakers announced Friday that they reached a deal with Uber and Lyft to back a measure allowing the state's hundreds of thousands of gig drivers to unionize while treating them as independent contractors.
Organizing among graduate student workers boomed under President Joe Biden as students at more than two dozen private colleges and universities capitalized on a favorable policy climate. That wave has hit a wall under President Donald Trump, whose arrival has also sapped existing unions' leverage.
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September 02, 2025
Unions representing thousands of employees of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the National Weather Service challenged in a lawsuit Tuesday in D.C. federal court an executive order by President Donald Trump ending their collective bargaining agreements.
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September 02, 2025
Federal government efforts to end diversity, equity and inclusion programs; states’ industry-specific wage hikes that have reached new heights and a National Labor Relations Board that is stuck without a quorum are employment law trends to watch, Littler Mendelson PC’s Workplace Policy Institute said in an annual report. Here, Law360 explores the report’s findings.
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September 02, 2025
The National Labor Relations Board should award scaffolding work on a Seattle bridge repaving project to the Painters union, not the Laborers union, two contractors told the board, while the Laborers union asked the board to toss the jurisdictional dispute.
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September 02, 2025
The National Labor Relations Board defended its request to hold a construction company in contempt for not fully complying with a Sixth Circuit enforcement ruling, saying the appeals court's decision clearly ordered the business to provide requested information to a union.
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September 02, 2025
Courts can't sort out who pays arbitration fees, and employers' refusal to pay such fees isn't a failure to arbitrate, the Second Circuit ruled Tuesday, siding with X in a case accusing the social media platform of owing workers severance.
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September 02, 2025
A National Labor Relations Board official has given workers at four Bay Area rock climbing gyms the green light to vote on representation by Workers United, rejecting Touchstone Climbing Inc.'s argument that any bargaining unit formed should include workers from all nine of its area gyms.
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August 29, 2025
National Labor Relations Board prosecutors have asked a federal judge to order REI to rehire a worker who began an organizing drive at an Oregon store, saying firing the prominent union supporter "stifled" workers' rights and will continue to do so without an injunction.
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August 29, 2025
Although President Donald Trump said he was protecting national security when he opened the door for dozens of agencies to shred their union contracts, he was actually retaliating against the unions for speaking out against him, a coalition of former senior national security officials told the Ninth Circuit on Friday.
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August 29, 2025
John Dougherty, the former business manager of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 98 in Philadelphia, has asked a federal judge to free him early from his six-year prison term for bribery and embezzlement so that he can go home to care for his ailing wife, who he claims will ultimately die without his assistance.
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August 29, 2025
An attorney who spent the first 15 years of his legal career working with National Labor Relations Board has recently moved into private practice and joined Blank Rome LLP's growing labor team.
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August 29, 2025
Yellow Corp. seeks to revive a $137 million breach dispute against the Teamsters at the Tenth Circuit, married retirees will ask the Eleventh Circuit to restart a pension conversion fight, and the en banc Fifth Circuit reconsiders a challenge to a rule implementing a 2020 surprise health billing law.
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August 29, 2025
National Labor Relations Board prosecutors urged the board to affirm a judge's ruling that Medieval Times suppressed a union drive by dangling withheld raises, filing a baseless trademark suit and firing a union backer, saying the ruling aligns with the evidence and board precedent.
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August 29, 2025
This week, the Second Circuit will consider whether to revive a suit brought by former healthcare workers who claimed they were discriminated against on the basis of their religion when they were fired for refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine.
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August 29, 2025
A National Labor Relations Board regional director should have held a hearing on four of a Southern California hotel's objections to its workers' unionization, the Hilton-affiliated hotel told the agency official, requesting review of her decision to certify a UNITE HERE local as the hotel staff's bargaining representative.
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August 29, 2025
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for arguments in a National Labor Relations Board case against an environmental and engineering consultant. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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August 29, 2025
A coalition consisting of Maryland, two dozen other states and D.C. that is challenging the Trump administration's attempts to slash AmeriCorps programs and withhold funds announced Friday the White House has chosen to release nearly $185 million as it faced "a blistering legal defeat."
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August 28, 2025
President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order that purports to remove collective bargaining rights from federal workers at several more agencies, including NASA, the National Weather Service and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, a move that one union slammed as "retaliation."
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August 28, 2025
Four local governments and a union asked a D.C. federal judge on Wednesday to declare that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services acted unlawfully when it canceled $11 billion in grants awarded to improve public health systems around the country.
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August 28, 2025
The Sixth Circuit on Wednesday backed a Michigan federal judge's determination that a pension fund's actuary must recalculate a paving company's withdrawal liability, citing recently clarified precedent and agreeing that an $11 million sum was erroneously calculated.
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August 28, 2025
Unions and advocacy groups asked a Washington, D.C., federal judge Thursday for a win before trial in their lawsuit claiming agencies unlawfully provided Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency access to sensitive data, saying the agencies departed from their usual data access procedures without explanation.
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August 28, 2025
A marine construction company may continue pursuing its constitutional challenge to the National Labor Relations Board's structure in Texas federal court, a Texas federal judge has ruled, rejecting the agency's bid to transfer the case to California federal court.
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August 28, 2025
A North Carolina hospital violated the National Labor Relations Act by firing a nurse who posted on her private Facebook page that she had a vendetta against an unnamed manager and was "coming for her," a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, saying the post's context rendered it NLRA-protected activity.
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August 28, 2025
A school district labor union has agreed to pay $110,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming it discriminated against a Black custodian by challenging his promotion, according to a filing Thursday in Illinois federal court.
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August 28, 2025
President Donald Trump on Thursday fired a Democratic member of the Surface Transportation Board who has opposed further consolidation in the rail industry, ousting Robert Primus just as the board prepares to consider the proposed megamerger between Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern.
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August 28, 2025
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. must formally reexamine whether union bakery drivers can collect $132 million from a federal pension rescue program, a New York federal judge said Thursday after lifting a stay on the order following the Second Circuit's decision to reject the agency's rehearing bid.