A court order winding down a longstanding monitorship marks the end of an era for the Teamsters as it transitions to an entirely internal discipline system, though experts said the order's preservation of direct elections keeps intact a key factor that kept organized crime's influence out of the union.
DoorDash will pay $131.5 million to settle a New York City investigation that found it underpaid workers, paid some late and excluded certain trip and waiting time from minimum-pay calculations, with more than 200,000 workers set to receive payments, the city announced Tuesday.
The Second Circuit gave a cool reception Monday to a former United Airlines employee's attempt to force arbitration of a grievance over his firing after a Teamsters local declined to pursue it, with judges suggesting it was the union's right to advance the claim as it saw appropriate.