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June 24, 2025
The final approval of a landmark $2.78 billion class action settlement allowing NCAA colleges and universities to share revenues with athletes could blunt unionization efforts that have already stalled amid uncertainty at the National Labor Relations Board, experts said.
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June 24, 2025
Cornell University and the American Arbitration Association are working together to establish a nationwide service offering assistance with dispute resolution and mediation for labor contracts, with a former Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service officer leading as the executive manager.
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June 24, 2025
A pickle manufacturer in Brooklyn asked the National Labor Relations Board not to order the company to negotiate with a UFCW local, challenging an agency judge's conclusions that the business illegally refused to bargain about the effects of the sale of its retail business and layoffs.
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June 24, 2025
The widow of a former Cincinnati Reds pitcher is pushing to keep her lawsuit against Major League Baseball's pension plan alive, urging a Florida federal judge to preserve her legal fight for surviving spouse benefits in the face of the plan's motion to dismiss.
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June 23, 2025
The Trump administration is looking to scrap a union-brought challenge to the Department of Government Efficiency's ability to access Americans' Social Security information, telling a Maryland federal judge that the U.S. Supreme Court's recent pausing of an injunction won by the unions shows the administration's position is strong.
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June 23, 2025
A D.C. federal judge on Monday signaled doubt that the Trump administration was obeying his order to keep Voice of America up and running while a coalition of journalists, unions and a reporter advocacy group sue to keep the news agency intact.
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June 23, 2025
The full Fifth Circuit must review whether a Texas federal judge "effectively denied" Amazon's attempt to stop a National Labor Relations Board refusal-to-bargain case, the e-commerce giant argued, saying an appeals court panel's standard did not align with U.S. Supreme Court precedent.
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June 23, 2025
The U.S. Department of Labor has put a Biden-era regulation protecting union-related activities for agricultural workers on seasonal H-2A visas on ice while litigation over the rule continues and the agency considers new rulemaking.
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June 23, 2025
The Third Circuit on Monday backed the NLRB's findings that a lone fired worker's COVID-19 safety complaints were concerted activity under federal labor law, but remanded the case to the board in order to weigh evidence about whether the worker would have been fired regardless of whether he spoke up.
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June 23, 2025
A Toyota facility in Southern California has largely stopped doing business with a freight company whose Teamsters-represented workers are on strike, the company said in an $11 million federal court suit against the union, accusing it of illegally picketing that facility and several others.
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June 20, 2025
The Texas Supreme Court on Friday put wind beneath the wings of a Southwest Airline Pilots Association's suit aiming to hold Boeing responsible for its members' economic losses after regulators grounded the 737 Max aircraft, finding the Railway Labor Act does not preempt the union's claims.
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June 20, 2025
Lockheed Martin escaped retaliation and discrimination allegations from a fired mechanical inspector, a Texas federal judge ruled Friday, concluding the worker had not proved that race bias or whistleblowing led to his termination two years ago.
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June 20, 2025
In the coming week, a New York federal judge will consider a medical clinic's motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a former physician who claims he had his bonus withheld and was fired for complaining about conditions and practices at the clinic. Here, Law360 looks at this and other cases on the docket in New York.
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June 20, 2025
A few states are mulling measures that would empower their labor arbiters to step in for the National Labor Relations Board as its staff struggles and the president's firing of a board member and failure to nominate new ones keep the agency from functioning fully.
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June 20, 2025
Crew members working for HBO and a production company were paid several days late and were often required to work through their meal and rest breaks, a Private Attorneys General Act lawsuit filed in California state court said.
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June 20, 2025
A United Auto Workers affiliate can't add fellows to an existing bargaining unit at a California nonprofit focused on climate equity, a National Labor Relations Board regional director concluded, finding they are temporary workers who can't be in a unit with permanent employees.
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June 20, 2025
In this week's Taxation With Representation, Nippon Steel closes its purchase of U.S. Steel, Hunter Point Capital buys a minority stake in Equitix, Eaton acquires Ultra PCS Ltd. from the Cobham Ultra Group, and Eli Lilly and Co. acquires Verve Therapeutics.
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June 20, 2025
Stinson LLP is expanding its California labor and employment team, announcing that it has brought in a National Labor Relations Board attorney as of counsel in its 3-month-old Los Angeles office.
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June 18, 2025
New York's highest court lifted an injunction Wednesday that had blocked New York City from switching retired city employees' health insurance provider, ruling that the city never promised its retirees that it would keep them on a Medicare supplemental plan.
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June 18, 2025
The Ninth Circuit on Wednesday axed a National Labor Relations Board order barring a longshore union from going after maintenance work in the Port of Seattle that was awarded to the Machinists, with one judge inviting en banc review of appeals court precedent about work preservation defenses.
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June 18, 2025
A California federal judge Wednesday appeared open to temporarily blocking President Donald Trump's executive order reclassifying hundreds of thousands of federal workers to bar them from collective bargaining, calling the order "dramatic" and "unprecedented," and asking about the downsides of keeping the status quo until trial.
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June 18, 2025
A D.C. federal judge has ordered the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to restore at least some canceled public health grants to four local governments, ruling the Trump administration likely exceeded its constitutional power when it terminated the grants in March.
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June 18, 2025
United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain retaliated against the union's secretary-treasurer by taking away some of her responsibilities because she denied reimbursement expense requests, a court-appointed monitor detailed in a report, finding that the secretary-treasurer faced false financial misconduct claims.
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June 18, 2025
A novel plan to give New York's Public Employment Relations Board the power to step in for the disabled National Labor Relations Board is headed to the governor's desk after the Assembly passed the measure in its final session.
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June 18, 2025
Entertainment labor union SAG-AFTRA has applauded the passage of two bills by the New York State Legislature that would require the disclosure of advertisements' use of artificial intelligence-generated performers and for permission to be obtained to use digital renderings of deceased performers in expressive works.