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July 07, 2025
Major League Baseball's pension plan doubled down Monday on its argument that a woman who married a retired Cincinnati Reds pitcher seven weeks before he died cannot collect surviving spouse benefits, saying marriages must last a year for spouses to qualify.
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July 07, 2025
The second half of the year could be consequential for labor law practitioners as courts consider challenges to National Labor Relations Board rulings easing bargaining orders and limiting how employers can respond to union election campaigns. Here, Law360 looks at these and other cases to watch in the second half.
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July 07, 2025
A plumbers union called for the National Labor Relations Board to uphold a regional director's order for a second representation vote, arguing a family-owned company in Kentucky committed federal labor law violations warranting another vote.
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July 07, 2025
A former bread deliveryman was following his employer's rules when he refused to make a delivery that would have been unsafe because of road conditions, the deliveryman told an Ohio federal judge, asking her to preserve his lawsuit against his former employer and union.
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July 07, 2025
The Trump administration maintained that the U.S. Office of Personnel Management's guidance on probationary federal employees was lawful, telling a California federal judge the OPM did not order agencies to carry out a mass termination of these workers despite the claims of unions representing them.
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July 07, 2025
An airline lobby and the state of Colorado told a federal court last week that a settlement "appears unlikely" in the airline group's case claiming the state's sick leave law is preempted by federal law.
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July 07, 2025
A cargo handling contractor at the Cleveland airport is fighting its employees' unionization, asking a National Labor Relations Board official to reconsider her decision to certify an International Association of Machinists local as the workers' bargaining representative.
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July 07, 2025
Eight chapters of the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys — a union that represents thousands of public interest attorneys and advocates in the New York City metro area — have voted to authorize strikes as workers hope their sectoral bargaining strategy will lead to more favorable deals with managers.
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July 03, 2025
A New York federal judge should preserve claims that a New York City elevator workers' union unlawfully ousted one business agent and demoted another after they supported a business agent candidate that the union's president opposed, the men argued, saying the record shows the union's actions were politically motivated.
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July 03, 2025
An International Longshoremen's Association member in Miami sought an order blocking the union from retaliating against him, telling a Florida federal judge that the union is "weaponizing" the grievance process because he backed an opposing slate in internal officer elections.
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July 03, 2025
The steep funding cut that Republicans have passed for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau could strengthen the Trump administration's position in its court fight to resume downsizing the agency, even if it doesn't directly resolve the legal questions at play.
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July 03, 2025
A D.C. Circuit panel stayed an order Thursday reinstating a fired member of a panel that decides federal agencies' union disputes in line with a U.S. Supreme Court order freezing out two fired leaders of other labor agencies.
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July 03, 2025
It was a tough term at the U.S. Supreme Court for two very different circuits — one solidly liberal, one solidly conservative — that had their rulings overturned in eye-popping numbers. But it was another impressive year for a relatively moderate circuit that appears increasingly simpatico with the high court.
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July 03, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court voted along ideological lines when it hindered the ability of federal district court judges to issue nationwide pauses on presidential policies, but that outcome didn't seem like a foregone conclusion during oral arguments earlier this year. What do the colloquies suggest about the justices' thinking? Here are some moments that may have swayed them.
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July 03, 2025
Allegations that a Teamsters local in Washington state breached labor agreements by encouraging drivers it represented not to cross picket lines during a strike don't hold water, a federal judge ruled, rejecting a construction company's broad interpretation of these pacts.
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July 03, 2025
A Las Vegas Strip casino was within its rights to fire two bartenders but violated labor law by firing a cook, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, finding the casino discharged the bartenders for a legitimate reason but fired the cook because he spoke out about working conditions.
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July 03, 2025
National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox's firing has disabled key functions at the agency charged with overseeing worker organizing and labor relations in much of the private sector, and her challenge to the unprecedented removal could upend a pillar of administrative law. Here, Law360 explores the biggest labor story of the year so far.
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July 03, 2025
The number of law firms juggling three or more arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court this past term nearly doubled from the number of firms that could make that claim last term.
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July 03, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court once again waited until the term's closing weeks — and even hours — to issue some of its most anticipated and divided decisions.
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July 03, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court clarified the question presented in a case it recently agreed to take up over the methodology for calculating businesses' liability for pulling out of multiemployer pension plans.
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July 02, 2025
A Teamsters local sought to nix Kroger's attempt to dismiss allegations that the grocery giant won't arbitrate a grievance about health insurance coverage for a worker's family members, telling a Kansas federal judge the company can't raise claims about arbitrability at this point in the proceeding.
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July 02, 2025
Since returning to the White House in January, President Donald Trump has taken a number of actions to pare back the U.S. government workforce, including widespread layoffs and agency restructurings, but federal workers' unions have sought to curb those efforts by filing a flood of lawsuits — with mixed results.
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July 02, 2025
National Labor Relations Board prosecutors claimed Starbucks deployed a "nationwide strategy to crush" unionization efforts in challenging an agency judge's denial of remedies, arguing that the board must find the coffee giant illegally fired five workers who went inside a South Carolina store after hours to clean it.
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July 02, 2025
A National Labor Relations Board finding that a medical imaging facility operator violated an informal settlement agreement by failing to rehire a worker with back pay should be nixed, the company told the Ninth Circuit, saying she forfeited her right to reinstatement and her position no longer exists.
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July 02, 2025
A Chicago hotel must comply with an arbitration award finding it failed to employ union-represented workers while it was used as a migrant shelter, an Illinois federal judge ruled, upholding conclusions that the employer tried to evade bargaining obligations.