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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.
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July 02, 2025
The National Labor Relations Board correctly docked Starbucks for sending workers subpoenas "demanding that they reveal every aspect of their union organizing activities" after they had agreed to testify against the company in an unfair labor practice case, Workers United told the Fifth Circuit, asking it to enforce the ruling.
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July 02, 2025
After justices and oral advocates spent much of an argument pummeling a lower court's writing talents, one attorney suggested it might be time to move on — only to be told the drubbing had barely begun. Here, Law360 showcases the standout jests and wisecracks from the 2024-25 U.S. Supreme Court term.
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July 01, 2025
The National Labor Relations Board has spent most of the first half of 2025 without a quorum, and while experts expect President Donald Trump to name nominees soon, competing visions for labor policy within the Republican Party might complicate their paths to confirmation.
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July 01, 2025
A split D.C. Circuit has upheld the National Labor Relations Board's dismissal of allegations that a transportation union betrayed a member by suggesting that he be fired after a spat with a co-worker, with the majority saying Tuesday that the NLRB properly determined that the suggestion wasn't serious.
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July 01, 2025
The term's sharpest dissents often looked beyond perceived flaws in majority reasoning to raise existential concerns about the role and future of the court, with the justices accusing one another of rewarding executive branch lawlessness, harming faith in the judiciary and threatening democracy, sometimes on an emergency basis with little briefing or explanation.
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July 01, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to limit nationwide injunctions was one of its biggest rulings of the term — a finding the court is likely going to be dealing with all summer. Here, Law360 takes a look at the decision, how it and other cases on the emergency docket overshadowed much of the court's other work, and what it all means for the months to come.
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July 01, 2025
UPS must shell out a specified back pay amount ordered by an arbitration panel for a reinstated worker, a Teamsters local told a Pennsylvania federal court, arguing the award clearly required the company to provide a certain amount of compensation that did not factor in unemployment benefits.
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July 01, 2025
Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has limited universal injunctions, employers, workers and their advocates could have to turn to motions to vacate, associational standing and other pathways to relief in employment law litigation, attorneys said. Here, Law360 explores the potential impact.
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July 01, 2025
A supermarket in California lawfully fired an employee for secretly recording a colleague, a National Labor Relations Board attorney said in a memorandum, determining the terminated worker's actions lost federal labor law protection.
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July 01, 2025
A New York federal judge tossed two New York City public defenders' lawsuit against their union, saying the attorneys can't leverage the U.S. Supreme Court's Janus ruling to stop paying the union because they disagree with its stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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July 01, 2025
A Georgia man hit KBR Inc. and HomeSafe Alliance LLC with a proposed class action alleging that they failed to provide notice before terminating some 200 employees after the U.S. government scrapped a moving services contract worth up to $20 billion for performance troubles.
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June 30, 2025
The Trump administration is planning to roll back a Biden-era rule that protected seasonal farmworkers on H-2A visas from facing retaliation for workplace organizing, with the U.S. Department of Labor announcing its intent to rescind the contentious 2024 rule Monday.
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June 30, 2025
A contractor operating rental car shuttle services at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston and a staffing firm are joint employers of workers seeking Teamsters representation, a National Labor Relations Board regional director concluded, finding the transportation company has power over some key employment terms.
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June 30, 2025
The National Labor Relations Board must order a rerun representation election at Lodi, a restaurant in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center, a union argued, saying an agency judge was "badly mistaken" when he concluded some federal labor violations did not warrant a second vote.
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June 30, 2025
Two chapters of the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys held practice pickets on Monday afternoon after voting to authorize a strike as members across New York City approach the end of their collective bargaining agreements.
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June 30, 2025
A National Labor Relations Board official has approved an election for about 1,500 postdoctoral fellows and research assistants at the University of Pennsylvania to vote on representation by the United Auto Workers, rejecting the university's contention that they were ineligible to unionize under federal labor law.
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June 30, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court took up a fight Monday over the correct way to calculate how much employers must pay when they withdraw from multiemployer retirement plans, granting an employer-side petition for review of a D.C. Circuit decision favoring a machinists' union.
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June 27, 2025
The National Labor Relations Board asked a New Jersey federal judge Friday to extend an injunction that requires a Marriott-affiliated hotel to recognize a union and reinstate six workers, saying it can't resolve an administrative case at the moment due to the board's lack of a quorum.
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June 27, 2025
The D.C. Circuit on Friday upheld a National Labor Relations Board ruling finding George Washington University Hospital bargained in bad faith with a Service Employees International Union local, saying evidence supported the board's conclusion that the hospital did not expect its proposals to lead to an agreement.
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June 27, 2025
As uncertainty looms over the future of the federal mediation agency that employers and unions often rely on to break bargaining standoffs, a few states and private institutions are seeking to fill in the gaps with new or expanded services.
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June 27, 2025
A D.C. federal judge Friday voiced his "grave" concerns about the White House's Department of Government Efficiency obtaining personal information, but the district court declined to stop the U.S. Department of Labor and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from giving this access.