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February 05, 2026
The Sixth Circuit backed a trial court's ruling that an arbitration agreement didn't apply to a Black ex-security officer's suit claiming Detroit's Renaissance Center failed to address concerns that white officers mistreated their Black co-workers, ruling a grammatical decision in the pact keeps his case in court.
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February 05, 2026
The Trump administration Thursday announced a final rule to create a new category of federal workers who would have fewer job protections and be easier to fire, implementing an executive order from early last year that could affect 50,000 employees at federal agencies.
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February 05, 2026
Medical department employees at an Iowa health center can vote on being represented by a Teamsters local, a National Labor Relations Board official has ruled, finding that the unit they're petitioning for doesn't need to include workers from the center's other departments or locations.
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February 05, 2026
The United Auto Workers and Volkswagen reached a tentative agreement on a labor contract covering more than 3,000 workers at a plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, which if ratified would become a landmark initial contract for Southern autoworkers.
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February 04, 2026
An American Federation of Teachers affiliate may move forward with a union representation election at a trio of South Jersey nursing homes, with a National Labor Relations Board official greenlighting the election Wednesday.
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February 04, 2026
A group of public sector unions asked an Oregon federal court Wednesday to toss a free market think tank's suit challenging a state law that allows unions to sue anyone who impersonates union representatives, arguing that the foundation's claims against the unions fail because the unions aren't state actors.
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February 04, 2026
Unsecured creditors of the owner of a Long Island nursing home have asked a New York bankruptcy judge to deny the debtor any more extra time during which it has the exclusive right to file a liquidation plan, saying its proposed plan is unconfirmable.
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February 04, 2026
Two Minnesota school districts and the state's major teachers union are challenging the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's decision to remove its policy barring federal agencies from carrying out immigration enforcement actions near public schools, according to a complaint filed in Minnesota federal court Wednesday.
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February 04, 2026
A former bread deliveryman asked the Sixth Circuit to revive his challenge to his firing and his union's refusal to fight it in arbitration, telling the court that an Ohio federal judge was wrong to wrap up the case at the summary judgment phase.
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February 03, 2026
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's employee union has urged the full D.C. Circuit to uphold a lower court order blocking sweeping cuts at the agency, arguing the Trump administration's legal theory for lifting the order would allow officials to dismantle an agency so long as they don't "put it in writing."
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February 03, 2026
The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service has settled into a new normal after a year of layoffs and court interventions, observers said, but questions persist about what the pared-down version of the agency will mean for the unions and employers that have used its services.
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February 03, 2026
A New York City businessman must turn over documents relevant to his companies' liability for years of back pay to a fired bus company tour guide after the Second Circuit on Tuesday upheld an order to comply with National Labor Relations Board subpoenas.
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February 03, 2026
A former member of the National Mediation Board has sued President Donald Trump and several government officials over her dismissal in October, alleging in a complaint filed in D.C. federal court that she was unlawfully ousted from her position.
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February 03, 2026
A Fifth Circuit panel has enforced a National Labor Relations Board order requiring a New York City janitorial contractor to rehire a longtime cleaner, saying the board reasonably linked the cleaner's 2020 firing to a series of complaints she'd recently lodged about work conditions.
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February 02, 2026
What happened to a GOP donor's $250,000 Swiss watch? Can cigarette warnings show jarring medical images? Will a circuit split of "far-reaching importance" for arbitration get even wider? That's a taste of the oral argument menu we'll help you digest in this preview of February's top appellate action.
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February 02, 2026
A Fifth Circuit panel pressed the National Labor Relations Board to explain why Starbucks lacks the ability to fire a union organizer who used excessively colorful language in private messages to co-workers, saying Monday the language used would "make any of us blush."
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February 02, 2026
School custodians urged the New Jersey Supreme Court on Monday to reinstate an award of extra money for their in-person work during the pandemic, arguing an arbitrator had a reasonably plausible interpretation of a state statute when he determined it didn't preempt the custodians' collective bargaining agreement.
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February 02, 2026
Construction industry unions have accused the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority of refusing to comply with a resolution requiring project labor agreements on construction projects worth $35 million or more, according to a complaint filed in Virginia federal court.
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February 02, 2026
Kraft Heinz shouldn't be allowed to scuttle a benefits fight by arguing that it should have been routed through the company healthcare plan's dispute resolution process, a Teamsters local told a Delaware federal judge, saying the dispute can be resolved through the grievance and arbitration process.
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February 02, 2026
A Massachusetts hospital violated federal labor law by unilaterally changing a policy regarding when a nurse's union could access the facility and banning union representatives from the hospital, a National Labor Relations Board judge has ruled.
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January 30, 2026
The National Labor Relations Board's new general counsel, Crystal Carey, has broken tradition set by her predecessors through her recent announcement that she will not issue a widely expected memo establishing her policy priorities, but experts do not expect the memo's absence to noticeably affect prosecutions at the board.
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January 30, 2026
Starbucks can't challenge a new restriction on employer speech that the National Labor Relations Board set out in a decision knocking the company's response to a Seattle union drive because the board only applied its rule going forward, the agency argued in a Ninth Circuit brief.
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January 30, 2026
A cargo handling contractor urged the National Labor Relations Board to reverse an official's decision to certify the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers as the bargaining representative for employees at the Fresno, California, airport, arguing the decision falls under the jurisdiction of the Railway Labor Act.
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January 30, 2026
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for Ninth Circuit oral arguments regarding whether the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act prevents Netflix from seeking to send sexual harassment claims to arbitration. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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January 30, 2026
The publisher of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette says it is complying with a court order to put its newsroom employees back on a union-sponsored healthcare plan, so a request from the National Labor Relations Board to hold it in contempt is moot.