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February 02, 2026
A Massachusetts hospital violated federal labor law by unilaterally changing a policy regarding when a nurse's union could access the facility and banning union representatives from the hospital, a National Labor Relations Board judge has ruled.
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January 30, 2026
The National Labor Relations Board's new general counsel, Crystal Carey, has broken tradition set by her predecessors through her recent announcement that she will not issue a widely expected memo establishing her policy priorities, but experts do not expect the memo's absence to noticeably affect prosecutions at the board.
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January 30, 2026
Starbucks can't challenge a new restriction on employer speech that the National Labor Relations Board set out in a decision knocking the company's response to a Seattle union drive because the board only applied its rule going forward, the agency argued in a Ninth Circuit brief.
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January 30, 2026
A cargo handling contractor urged the National Labor Relations Board to reverse an official's decision to certify the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers as the bargaining representative for employees at the Fresno, California, airport, arguing the decision falls under the jurisdiction of the Railway Labor Act.
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January 30, 2026
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for Ninth Circuit oral arguments regarding whether the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act prevents Netflix from seeking to send sexual harassment claims to arbitration. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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January 30, 2026
The publisher of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette says it is complying with a court order to put its newsroom employees back on a union-sponsored healthcare plan, so a request from the National Labor Relations Board to hold it in contempt is moot.
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January 30, 2026
Medieval Times did not violate federal labor law by disciplining an employee who participated in a union campaign and testified in a previous case involving the American Guild of Variety Artists, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled.
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January 30, 2026
A deal to settle a challenge to a wheelchair company's employment agreements must be reversed because it doesn't go far enough, the National Labor Relations Board said in its most substantial decision since getting back its quorum in early January.
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January 30, 2026
An Indiana federal judge tossed a UPS manager's suit claiming a Teamsters local allowed its members to harass him with baseless complaints that he was a racist, ruling he couldn't sue under Title VII because, as a supervisor, he wasn't represented by the union.
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January 30, 2026
This week, the Second Circuit will consider reviving a former Eastchester, New York, police officer's suit claiming he was suspended and later fired because of his national origin.
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January 29, 2026
Security guards at private buildings in New York City will be entitled to the same minimum wage, paid time off and benefits received by security guards at public buildings under a new union-supported city law enacted Thursday.
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January 29, 2026
The recent withdrawal of a National Labor Relations Board complaint accusing the Salvation Army of restricting its workers' organizing rights may be a sign of things to come under the agency's new general counsel, though the signal is fuzzy.
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January 29, 2026
The state of Oregon has urged a federal judge to toss a free market think tank's lawsuit challenging a state law that allows unions to sue anyone who impersonates union representatives, arguing the claims are barred by the 11th Amendment.
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January 29, 2026
Former National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox's challenge to her firing has hit another wall, with the full D.C. Circuit saying it won't reconsider a panel's decision to drop her lawsuit seeking reinstatement.
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January 29, 2026
A grievance procedure in a local union's collective negotiation agreement with Rutgers University is preempted by Title IX, the New Jersey Supreme Court said Thursday, reversing a lower court's decision that forced the university into post-termination arbitration over a custodian fired for sexual harassment.
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January 29, 2026
A wireless and broadcast communications infrastructure company violated federal labor law by indirectly threatening to fire its workers because they engaged in protected activity and preventing them from discussing their pay, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled.
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January 29, 2026
The agency that oversees labor relations in air and rail transportation has said SpaceX falls under its authority, likely spelling the end of the National Labor Relations Board's legal battles with the rocket maker.
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January 28, 2026
A coalition of unions, nonprofit organizations and local governments that are challenging the Trump administration's federal worker layoffs and agency reorganizations asked a California federal judge Tuesday for permission to add the Federal Emergency Management Agency as a defendant, saying ongoing staff cuts threaten its legally mandated responsibility to respond to disasters.
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January 28, 2026
The National Labor Relations Board urged the Second Circuit on Wednesday to uphold its order requiring Nexstar to bargain with a union representing workers at a New York news station, saying the company did not present compelling evidence that the election process was tainted.
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January 28, 2026
National Labor Relations Board general counsel Crystal Carey does not plan to issue a highly anticipated memo detailing precedents she would like to see the board revisit, saying in a memo Wednesday that a focus on precedent shifts in recent years has contributed to the agency's backlog in cases.
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January 28, 2026
An Illinois electrical contractor can exit a suit alleging it laid off an electrician, put him on the do-not-rehire list and required him to take a drug test under direct observation because he engaged in protected activity, a National Labor Relations Board judge has ruled.
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January 28, 2026
The National Labor Relations Board's updated case docketing system does not impose new "substantive burdens" on agency users or require different information from them than the agency has always demanded, the board said Wednesday.
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January 28, 2026
A Service Employees International Union local urged the D.C. Circuit to uphold a final National Labor Relations Board order finding that a California cleaning contractor unlawfully threatened and fired janitorial workers for picketing in front of the building where they worked, stating that the board's determination was reasonable.
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January 28, 2026
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.'s program backstopping the nation's private-sector pension plans reported another year of healthy finances, with an end-of-fiscal-year surplus of more than $64 billion, the agency said.
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January 28, 2026
Head Start teachers working for a Minnesota community services nonprofit cannot be included in an existing bargaining unit represented by an American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees local, a National Labor Relations Board official ruled.