Organizing among graduate student workers boomed under President Joe Biden as students at more than two dozen private colleges and universities capitalized on a favorable policy climate. That wave has hit a wall under President Donald Trump, whose arrival has also sapped existing unions' leverage.
National Labor Relations Board Chairman Marvin Kaplan leaves behind a number of memorable dissents as his eight-year tenure ends on Aug. 27, though experts noted his departure leaves the agency with just a single member and likely further delays precedent-shifting decisions.
The National Labor Relations Board asked the Sixth Circuit to uphold a district court injunction requiring a Michigan hospital to recognize a Service Employees International Union affiliate, telling the appeals court that evidence shows the hospital's withdrawal of recognition led to a drop in union support.
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Organizing among graduate student workers boomed under President Joe Biden as students at more than two dozen private colleges and universities capitalized on a favorable policy climate. That wave has hit a wall under President Donald Trump, whose arrival has also sapped existing unions' leverage.
National Labor Relations Board Chairman Marvin Kaplan leaves behind a number of memorable dissents as his eight-year tenure ends on Aug. 27, though experts noted his departure leaves the agency with just a single member and likely further delays precedent-shifting decisions.
The National Labor Relations Board asked the Sixth Circuit to uphold a district court injunction requiring a Michigan hospital to recognize a Service Employees International Union affiliate, telling the appeals court that evidence shows the hospital's withdrawal of recognition led to a drop in union support.
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August 28, 2025
President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order that purports to remove collective bargaining rights from federal workers at several more agencies, including NASA, the National Weather Service and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, a move that one union slammed as "retaliation."
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August 28, 2025
Four local governments and a union asked a D.C. federal judge on Wednesday to declare that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services acted unlawfully when it canceled $11 billion in grants awarded to improve public health systems around the country.
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August 28, 2025
The Sixth Circuit on Wednesday backed a Michigan federal judge's determination that a pension fund's actuary must recalculate a paving company's withdrawal liability, citing recently clarified precedent and agreeing that an $11 million sum was erroneously calculated.
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August 28, 2025
Unions and advocacy groups asked a Washington, D.C., federal judge Thursday for a win before trial in their lawsuit claiming agencies unlawfully provided Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency access to sensitive data, saying the agencies departed from their usual data access procedures without explanation.
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August 28, 2025
A marine construction company may continue pursuing its constitutional challenge to the National Labor Relations Board's structure in Texas federal court, a Texas federal judge has ruled, rejecting the agency's bid to transfer the case to California federal court.
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August 28, 2025
A North Carolina hospital violated the National Labor Relations Act by firing a nurse who posted on her private Facebook page that she had a vendetta against an unnamed manager and was "coming for her," a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, saying the post's context rendered it NLRA-protected activity.
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August 28, 2025
A school district labor union has agreed to pay $110,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming it discriminated against a Black custodian by challenging his promotion, according to a filing Thursday in Illinois federal court.
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August 28, 2025
President Donald Trump on Thursday fired a Democratic member of the Surface Transportation Board who has opposed further consolidation in the rail industry, ousting Robert Primus just as the board prepares to consider the proposed megamerger between Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern.
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August 28, 2025
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. must formally reexamine whether union bakery drivers can collect $132 million from a federal pension rescue program, a New York federal judge said Thursday after lifting a stay on the order following the Second Circuit's decision to reject the agency's rehearing bid.
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August 28, 2025
McGuireWoods LLP announced Wednesday that it has welcomed an alumnus back to its labor and employment team following his stint as an associate general counsel for packaged meat company Smithfield Foods Inc.
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August 27, 2025
Campbell's sought dismissal of a former employee's proposed collective action alleging the soup producer didn't compensate workers for time spent putting on personal protective equipment, telling a New Jersey federal judge the claims must first be assessed in the grievance process under a labor contract.
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August 27, 2025
An aluminum manufacturer must comply with an injunction ordering it to reinstate union-represented retirees' healthcare benefits while it argues in court that it was allowed to transition them to health reimbursement accounts in 2021, the Seventh Circuit held, rejecting the company's request for the court to pause the injunction.
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August 27, 2025
A National Labor Relations Board official denied an Office and Professional Employees International Union local an election to confirm its representation of 50 workers at a California children's hospital amid its merger into the University of California system.
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August 27, 2025
A mariners union has escaped a deck officer's accusation of attempted medical assault, with a California federal judge tossing his claim that the union teamed up with his former employer, Matson Navigation Co., to pressure him to get a COVID-19 vaccination.
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August 26, 2025
Uber Eats has inked a $15 million settlement to end allegations that it flouted the city of Seattle's worker protection laws by failing to pay drivers what they were promised, including bonus earnings and minimum payments for canceled fares.
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August 26, 2025
A Washington federal judge has tossed a fired Service Employees International Union organizer's lawsuit against the union, saying the ex-organizer's "vague" complaint lacks facts to substantiate its claims that she was discriminated against, underpaid and wrongfully discharged.
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August 26, 2025
An Illinois federal judge can't block UPS from implementing a resignation incentive program until the Teamsters local that objects to it has finished challenging it through the grievance process, UPS argued, asking the judge to dissolve the temporary restraining order she issued and deny the union's injunction request.
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August 26, 2025
The Sixth Circuit lacks jurisdiction to consider a construction company's challenge to the National Labor Relations Board dismissing a worker's union ouster petitions, the board argued, saying the business can't refuse to negotiate to fight the toss of decertification petitions.
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August 26, 2025
A former X Corp. employee has settled its lawsuit alleging that he wasn't given a heads-up before the company conducted mass layoffs in 2022 following Elon Musk's takeover, prompting a California federal judge to conditionally dismiss the case on Monday, two weeks before trial had been set to begin.
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August 26, 2025
An attorney at Willig Williams & Davidson's Philadelphia office with more than 15 years of experience representing workers has been tapped to lead the city's branch of the Labor and Employment Relations Association through next spring.
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August 26, 2025
Littler Mendelson PC has brought on a former National Labor Relations Board attorney and corporate labor counsel as a shareholder in its Seattle office, the firm announced.
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August 25, 2025
A California federal judge should nix an arbitrator's finding that a labor agreement, rather than tribal law, governs unionization at a Native American casino, the Wilton Rancheria tribe argued in a new lawsuit.
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August 25, 2025
The American Federation of Government Employees and other unions defended a lower court injunction halting several federal agencies from enforcing an executive order focused on eliminating labor contracts covering agencies that have "national security" aims, arguing the president's directive was retaliatory.
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August 25, 2025
A Washington, D.C., federal judge flirted Monday with finding U.S. Agency for Global Media acting CEO Kari Lake in contempt of an order blocking what workers allege is the dismantling of broadcasting service Voice of America, but instead ordered her and other officials to sit for expedited depositions.
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August 25, 2025
Soup producer Campbell's told a New Jersey federal court Monday that a former filler operator failed to mention to the court that a collective bargaining agreement regulated her employment, including whether time spent donning and doffing personal protective equipment was paid.