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October 31, 2025
The Fifth Circuit in a published opinion Friday rejected the National Labor Relations Board's new remedial framework, saying the agency overstepped by ordering a restaurant owner to compensate workers for the foreseeable losses they suffered after their illegal firings.
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October 31, 2025
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's employee union warned that the agency is on the verge of running out of money and called for its acting Director Russell Vought to immediately request additional funds from the Federal Reserve.
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October 31, 2025
A former International Brotherhood of Boilermakers president who was ousted during an embezzlement scandal has asked a Missouri federal judge to toss the union's attempt to recoup $470,000, saying the union sued under the wrong law.
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October 31, 2025
The United Steelworkers union is backing U.S. Wind's injunction motion to halt the federal government's reversal of approval of its wind farm off the coast of Maryland, telling a federal judge that the about-face jeopardizes over 500 permanent jobs and $1 billion in labor income over the next 20 years.
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October 31, 2025
The Third Circuit will hear a union's appeal in a withdrawal liability battle, a union health plan defends its partial win in a coverage fight at the Ninth Circuit, and pharmacy benefit managers will take a challenge to the Federal Trade Commission's authority to the full Eighth Circuit. Here are three arguments to keep an eye on in November.
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October 31, 2025
President Donald Trump wasn't allowed to revoke the union status of electricians, linemen and plant operators at the Departments of Energy and the Interior, a group of union locals told a D.C. federal court, saying federal labor law enshrines their right to remain union-represented.
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October 31, 2025
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for California Supreme Court oral arguments dealing with whether an employer's "illegible" arbitration agreement is enforceable. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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October 30, 2025
Three upstate New York farms have asked a federal judge to block the state from imposing union contracts on them, saying New York's enforcement of a 2019 law that gave farmworkers union organizing rights violates the farms' right to due process of law.
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October 30, 2025
A recent Ninth Circuit ruling reaffirmed that the National Labor Relations Board's expanded remedial scheme generally fits within the agency's mandate to protect worker organizing but provides little guidance as to whether specific remedies will pass the court's muster.
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October 30, 2025
The U.S. Department of Labor's leadership team now consists of at least two officials who previously represented challengers to Democratic-era wage and hour rules, signaling the Trump administration's potential approach to the same regulatory issues.
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October 30, 2025
Casino operator RunItOneTime and the buyer of four card rooms urged a Texas bankruptcy judge not to reconsider his approval of a Chapter 11 sale, saying a union failed to object ahead of a hearing to the $28 million deal.
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October 30, 2025
A Teamsters division must resolve its work assignment dispute with BNSF Railway in arbitration, an Illinois federal judge ruled, agreeing with the railway that the fight is a "minor dispute" under the Railway Labor Act.
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October 30, 2025
The Seventh Circuit appeared open Thursday to unraveling trial court orders that required metals giant Alcoa to provide lifetime healthcare benefits to union retirees, with judges picking apart different aspects of the lower court's judicial estoppel analysis.
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October 29, 2025
Workers at Volkswagen's Tennessee plant have authorized negotiators to call a strike as they push to settle their first contract, the United Auto Workers announced Wednesday.
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October 29, 2025
Washington state appellate judges on Wednesday pushed shareholders suing Starbucks Corp. leaders to identify exactly where in their lawsuit they claimed the coffee retailer intentionally turned a blind eye to alleged union-busting efforts by store managers.
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October 29, 2025
A California federal judge should enforce an arbitrator's finding that a Bay Area Toyota dealership failed to comply with the state's sick leave law, a Teamsters local said, asking the judge to grant its cross-petition to enforce the award and toss the dealership's petition to vacate the award.
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October 29, 2025
The United Auto Workers local representing Columbia University's graduate and undergraduate student workers has filed a grievance against the university for issuing warning letters to at least 20 union members for participating in a practice picket earlier this month, the union announced Wednesday.
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October 29, 2025
A nuclear power plant operator told a Third Circuit panel Wednesday that a healthcare plan dispute with union workers should not be considered arbitrable because it stemmed from an old agreement that fell outside the collective bargaining agreement's arbitration provision.
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October 29, 2025
A General Motors employee is seeking two bites at the apple by accusing the company of failing to promote her because of her sex, the automaker argued, telling a Tennessee federal judge that those allegations were already put to bed in a suit that wrapped early last year.
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October 28, 2025
The Ninth Circuit on Tuesday backed the National Labor Relations Board's order finding that a Phoenix apartment complex manager illegally terminated an employee for discussing his wages with colleagues, which qualifies as protected activity, rejecting the manager's argument the employee was fired because of the quality of his work.
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October 28, 2025
The groups that unsuccessfully challenged Illinois' ban on mandatory anti-union meetings have appealed their loss to the Seventh Circuit, asking the court to revive their fight to bring back what are colloquially known as captive-audience meetings to the Prairie State.
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October 28, 2025
United Auto Workers members at Volkswagen's Tennessee plant are on the verge of a strike two years after a wave of work stoppages won Detroit factory workers key gains, though whether the union can replicate these banner deals under very different circumstances is unclear.
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October 28, 2025
A California federal judge on Tuesday granted a preliminary injunction to eight unions for federal workers who lost their jobs during the government shutdown, saying they were likely to succeed on their claims that the Trump administration's actions were "political retribution" and unlawful.
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October 28, 2025
Cannabis giant Curaleaf's ability to operate in New Jersey could be in jeopardy by the end of the week, it told a federal judge Tuesday when seeking an expedited hearing on its motion to block the state's cannabis regulator from requiring the company to adopt labor peace agreements with unions.
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October 27, 2025
Teva Pharmaceuticals will pay $35 million to resolve claims from a coalition of union healthcare funds that say the company schemed to delay generic competition for its QVAR asthma inhalers, according to a motion for preliminary injunction filed in Massachusetts federal court.