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May 21, 2026
Seventh Circuit judges sounded unwilling Thursday to disturb an arbitrator's finding that a Chicago hotel failed to employ union-represented workers during its use as a migrant shelter, suggesting the hotel took issue with interpretations of key words the arbitrator appropriately drew from the underlying collective bargaining agreement.
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May 21, 2026
A federal judge in Manhattan declined Thursday to order the Wimbledon and French Open tennis tournaments to grant access to representatives from a players group, after the group claimed its representatives are being denied access in retaliation for its antitrust lawsuit.
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May 21, 2026
The U.S. House of Representatives may soon consider a measure that would set deadlines for employers to reach union contracts after a push to force a vote secured majority support.
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May 21, 2026
An Eleventh Circuit panel appeared puzzled Thursday by Black union pipe fitters' claims that they were passed over for work assignments in favor of white counterparts, expressing confusion about what legal framework they believed an Alabama federal judge should have used.
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May 21, 2026
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday issued what his office called a "first-in-the-nation" executive order aiming to shore up state labor policies in an effort to prepare workers and businesses in the event of mass workforce disruption caused by artificial intelligence.
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May 21, 2026
A New York federal judge has given an initial green light to a settlement between United Parcel Service and Teamsters Local 804 members who accused the shipping giant of unlawfully deducting hundreds of dollars from their paychecks, finding the nearly $87,000 deal falls within the range of reasonableness.
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May 21, 2026
Kroger's Texas unit must compensate a United Food & Commercial Workers local for the dues that it failed to collect from a group of union-represented employees in the South between 2020 and 2022, the National Labor Relations Board ruled, though one member questioned the fairness of the order.
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May 21, 2026
A National Labor Relations Board panel partly granted a Texas immigration advocacy organization's request to review a decision that allowed some attorneys and legal assistants to remain in a voluntarily recognized bargaining unit, to reconsider whether they are supervisors.
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May 21, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that multiemployer pension plan actuaries can retroactively change assumptions underlying their withdrawal liability calculations, rejecting employers' argument for time restrictions on the methodology underpinning penalties for pulling out of a pension fund.
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May 20, 2026
AT&T California breached a settlement in a closed case through its delayed response to an information request made by a Communications Workers of America local, the National Labor Relations Board has ruled, with board member Scott Mayer "reluctantly" concurring based on precedent he "vehemently disagrees" with.
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May 20, 2026
Starbucks urged the National Labor Relations Board to reject Workers United's bid to withdraw a challenge to a local official's decision denying a decertification election, asking the board to instead use the dispute to rethink its practice of tossing decertification petitions after finding merit to allegations of labor violations.
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May 20, 2026
A New Jersey federal judge has no grounds to compel an International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers local to pay out a former union officer for unused vacation time, the union argued, asking the judge to toss the former officer's lawsuit.
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May 20, 2026
An addiction treatment center urged a National Labor Relations Board judge to toss claims that it included two employees in a layoff because of their efforts to organize with an American Federal of Teachers affiliate, arguing that the workers were selected because of performance issues.
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May 20, 2026
Boston University is allowed to bar union-represented undergraduate resident assistants from working other campus jobs, the university argued, asking a Massachusetts federal judge to vacate an arbitration award that ordered the school to allow students to do so.
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May 19, 2026
A concrete services company lost its challenge Tuesday to the way the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries classified its employees, with a state appeals court holding that L&I properly classified the workers as construction site surveyors who were owed higher wages.
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May 19, 2026
Organizations behind Wimbledon and the French Open asked a New York federal court to reject a player group's claims that they're denying it access to the tournaments in retaliation for its antitrust lawsuit, arguing that no jurisdiction exists to grant any relief.
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May 19, 2026
A Kentucky federal judge on Tuesday rejected the National Labor Relations Board's bid for an injunction against a food manufacturer, ruling that board prosecutors failed to show that employees working at the company would face irreparable harm without an order halting the company's labor law violations.
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May 19, 2026
A group of labor law professors have urged a New York federal court to side with New York City in a lawsuit challenging a city law that sets minimum wage and benefit requirements for private security guard employers, arguing that the law is not preempted by federal labor law.
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May 19, 2026
Employers remain hesitant to hold mandatory anti-union meetings during organizing campaigns despite questions about whether state or federal bans on what are commonly known as captive audience meetings would ultimately be enforced against them.
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May 19, 2026
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. told a New York federal judge Tuesday that it stands by its denial of a union pension fund's second application for a bailout, a day after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review a Second Circuit ruling ordering the agency to reassess the request.
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May 19, 2026
A Service Employees International Union local is refusing to let an arbitrator decide whether it violated a collective bargaining agreement with the union that represents the local's employees by extending a worker's probationary period by 180 days, the union said, asking a California federal judge to compel arbitration.
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May 19, 2026
A California federal judge threw out a Bay Area Toyota dealership's bid to overturn an arbitration award requiring the dealership to increase its paid sick leave days for Teamsters-represented employees, ruling that the dealership failed to state a basis for its request.
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May 18, 2026
John Dougherty, the former business manager of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 98 in Philadelphia serving time for corruption convictions, told a federal judge on Monday that he needed to be let out of prison because only he could provide the care his disabled wife needs to survive.
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May 18, 2026
The First Circuit denied a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs request to shelve its contract with a union representing government workers during an appeal, while also pausing a lower court's order that the VA must abide by grievance procedures in the contract.
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May 18, 2026
A National Labor Relations Board judge on Monday accepted over the Teamsters' objections a deal to end a joint employer case against Amazon without an admission that it jointly employed unionized contract drivers.