The Trump administration defended what it says is a lawful executive order looking to reorganize agencies and terminate workers, telling a California federal judge that unions, nonprofits and local governments "waited far too long" to seek a temporary restraining order.
The mostly stable jurisdictional lines between the National Labor Relations Board and the National Mediation Board are in flux as the NLRB seeks the NMB's take on which agency should oversee SpaceX and the airline industry deals with an abrupt shift in the federal labor overseers' treatment of contractors.
A new union is seeking to organize workers in the video game industry using a model that does not focus on winning elections at the National Labor Relations Board, but experts said the nontraditional approach might face challenges recruiting members and making durable change in the industry.
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The Trump administration defended what it says is a lawful executive order looking to reorganize agencies and terminate workers, telling a California federal judge that unions, nonprofits and local governments "waited far too long" to seek a temporary restraining order.
The mostly stable jurisdictional lines between the National Labor Relations Board and the National Mediation Board are in flux as the NLRB seeks the NMB's take on which agency should oversee SpaceX and the airline industry deals with an abrupt shift in the federal labor overseers' treatment of contractors.
A new union is seeking to organize workers in the video game industry using a model that does not focus on winning elections at the National Labor Relations Board, but experts said the nontraditional approach might face challenges recruiting members and making durable change in the industry.
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May 08, 2025
The Fifth Circuit on Thursday held that a lower court overstepped by ordering several in-house Southwest Airlines attorneys to undergo "religious liberty training" following a flight attendant's win in a wrongful termination suit, finding that the training wouldn't benefit the flight attendant or persuade Southwest to comply with an earlier order.
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May 08, 2025
If a United Food and Commercial Workers local wants to accuse King Soopers of violating a post-strike agreement, the union must take its argument to the National Labor Relations Board, the Kroger-owned grocery chain told a Colorado federal judge Thursday, asking her to throw the allegation out of federal court.
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May 08, 2025
The en banc D.C. Circuit on Wednesday restored federal grant funding to international broadcasters while the Trump administration appeals a lower court ruling blocking cuts to the agency that oversees Voice of America.
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May 08, 2025
The Sixth Circuit on Thursday appeared open to reviving suits against Kellogg and FedEx from married pensioners who alleged their employers' outdated actuarial assumptions shortchanged their joint-and-survivor benefits, with multiple judges seeming to doubt a lower court's assertion that employers had unfettered latitude when choosing what data to use.
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May 08, 2025
Nexstar Media Group Inc. challenged the certification of a union representing NewsNation workers, claiming the National Labor Relations Board's ban on what are known as captive audience meetings violated the company's First Amendment rights and unfairly influenced the vote's outcome.
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May 08, 2025
A Massachusetts heating and plumbing company's response to an organizing drive violated federal labor law, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, saying the company illegally fired five workers for union activity, told union supporters to quit, and promised workers better job assignments if they opposed the union.
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May 07, 2025
Southwest Airlines said Tuesday that a suit challenging its sick leave settlement with Colorado is moot because a recent collective bargaining agreement between the airline and its workers in the state already applies a 2020 law.
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May 07, 2025
A United Auto Workers affiliate representing attorneys at a New York legal services organization violated federal laws when the union thwarted antisemitism measures in the workplace, a nonprofit alleged Wednesday in announcing charges it filed at the National Labor Relations Board and U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
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May 07, 2025
A National Labor Relations Board official has tossed a worker's petition to decertify a union representing workers at a Minnesota glass company, saying a settlement between the company and union in a separate case prevents the election from going forward.
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May 07, 2025
Amazon did not violate federal labor law by firing a union supporter and unilaterally changing certain policies about cellphone use and COVID-19 tests at a New York warehouse, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled while finding the company illegally denied union representation during investigatory interviews.
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May 07, 2025
The United Steelworkers violated federal labor law by resolving a member's grievance in a manner that caused another member to be demoted, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, ordering the union to pursue another grievance on behalf of the demoted member.
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May 06, 2025
A former pro football player who claimed that he was incorrectly sent to a Texas drug treatment center that later abused and physically blocked him from leaving, should not blame the NFL Players Association for his being there, the union told a Texas federal court.
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May 06, 2025
A divided Fifth Circuit panel found Tuesday that a Texas federal judge did not "effectively deny" Amazon's bid to halt a refusal-to-bargain case at the National Labor Relations Board based on allegations that the agency is unconstitutional, tossing the e-commerce giant's appeal for lack of jurisdiction.
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May 06, 2025
The U.S. Department of Defense asked a court not to end its lawsuit over President Donald Trump's move to end collective bargaining with its workers, saying it cannot manage its workforce "without facing substantial legal uncertainty."
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May 06, 2025
Unions representing schoolteachers on military bases have sued President Donald Trump, the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Office of Personnel Management over a March executive order aimed at stripping them of their bargaining rights, asking a Washington, D.C., federal judge to invalidate the directive.
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May 06, 2025
A New York federal judge Tuesday tossed an electrical technician's suit accusing an entertainment industry union local of employing admissions and job referral practices that discriminate against Black and Latino applicants seeking work at major production studios.
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May 06, 2025
A delivery driver and a Philadelphia Teamsters local will drop their dispute over whether the driver was wrongfully denied early retirement benefits, the parties announced Monday.
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May 06, 2025
Costco unlawfully maintained overly broad rules in an investigations form and barred a North Carolina worker from talking about the outcome of her internal sexual harassment complaint, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, finding a clause allowing employment terms discussions did not shield the company from violating federal labor law.
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May 06, 2025
The Fifth Circuit gave the National Labor Relations Board the go-ahead to ask the federal labor agency that oversees union negotiations in the air transportation industry whether SpaceX falls under its purview in a step that could spell the end of the NLRB's cases against the rocket maker.
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May 05, 2025
The Fourth Circuit on Monday seemed poised for another split on letting the government share citizens' personally identifiable information with Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, with a line of questioning that parroted their earlier division over pausing the trial court's injunction blocking DOGE from accessing that data.
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May 05, 2025
A North Carolina federal judge tossed a challenge to a Biden-era regulation that enhanced the organizing rights of seasonal farmworkers with H-2A visas, saying Monday that the U.S. Department of Labor didn't act arbitrarily and capriciously when it issued the regulation.
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May 05, 2025
The Service Employees International Union asked the D.C. Circuit to examine the National Labor Relations Board's 2020 joint employer rule, renewing its fight against the employer-friendly board regulation that limited the criteria for finding shared liability.
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May 05, 2025
Immigrants rights groups called on the D.C. Circuit to pause the Trump administration's interim final rule requiring all noncitizens to register with the federal government or face criminal prosecution, after a lower court declined to issue a preliminary injunction.
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May 05, 2025
An Illinois chemical company is fighting to preserve allegations that a Teamsters local violated federal labor law through aggressive behavior during a strike the company claims was illegal, telling an Illinois federal judge that its amended complaint is strong enough to beat the union's dismissal motion.
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May 05, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied review of a shuttered New Jersey nursing home's challenge to the Third Circuit's enforcement of a National Labor Relations Board decision that found the employer unlawfully slashed or ended COVID-19 bonuses for unionized workers.