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March 03, 2026
Changes that National Labor Relations Board general counsel Crystal Carey laid out to case handling processes last week could ease the path to settlement and rein in the investigation of alleged rules violations, attorneys said, the latest move from the agency's new top prosecutor turning away from Biden-era practices.
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March 03, 2026
The National Labor Relations Board is taking steps to clear through its more than 16,000 pending cases, including bolstering its staff and spreading the pile across its operation, the official who oversees the agency's regional offices told an American Bar Association conference Tuesday.
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March 03, 2026
A California federal judge overseeing a lawsuit by federal worker unions, local governments and nonprofits challenging Trump administration layoffs expressed deep frustration Tuesday after a U.S. Department of Justice attorney contradicted a senior Federal Emergency Management Agency official's sworn declaration in the case.
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March 03, 2026
The Second Circuit should enforce the National Labor Relations Board's finding that a New York City car service company retaliated against its workers for joining a wage suit, board attorneys argued, urging the court to reject the company's contention that the drivers are independent contractors exempt from NLRB oversight.
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March 03, 2026
The National Labor Relations Board has urged the D.C. Circuit to reject the Service Employees International Union's challenge to the board's 2020 rule limiting the criteria for determining whether a business is a joint employer, arguing that the rule was adopted to help encourage stability and "meaningful collective bargaining."
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March 03, 2026
The NFL Players Association delayed and then dropped an injury grievance against the Baltimore Ravens without the permission of the player filing the grievance, according to a lawsuit against the union in Texas state court.
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March 03, 2026
The Fourth Circuit refused Tuesday to reopen a dispute over lifetime retirement health and life insurance benefits from a proposed class of retired coal miners, keeping in place a West Virginia federal court's judgment that broadly favored the company following a seven-day bench trial.
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March 03, 2026
A split Third Circuit panel said Tuesday it won't revive allegations that two companies owe about $800,000 to a union pension fund, ruling that a New Jersey federal judge properly tossed the claim because the fund waited eight years to tell the companies they owed the money.
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March 03, 2026
A union pension fund has dropped its lawsuit alleging that the Boston Globe failed to pay monthly contributions and provide records of the hours its employees worked, according to a filing in D.C. federal court.
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March 02, 2026
Members of the labor bar shared fears about the expected loss of the National Labor Relations Board's job protections Monday at an American Bar Association conference but struggled to offer viable solutions to the looming crisis.
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March 02, 2026
A Fifth Circuit panel wanted to know why investors should get another shot at a direct class action alleging that McDermott International Inc. made misrepresentations about a $6 billion merger, asking Monday if the case before the court was "analogous" to a case alleging the company overpaid for the merger.
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March 02, 2026
A D.C. federal judge has paused a challenge to the Trump administration's mass layoff of federal employees, telling a group of unions that he'll resume processing their lawsuit once rulings come down that clarify whether the case belongs before the Federal Labor Relations Authority.
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March 02, 2026
A Fifth Circuit judge said on Monday that the timing of Starbucks' firing of a California barista was "pretty extreme" and that management's words about benefits "do matter" as the court weighed the coffee giant's bid to overturn two unfavorable rulings by the National Labor Relations Board.
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March 02, 2026
A concrete company has urged the National Labor Relations Board to reopen the record on a labor dispute stemming from a 2017 strike organized by a Teamsters local, arguing that the union didn't fully comply with a subpoena related to its planning and preparation for the strike.
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March 02, 2026
National Labor Relations Board prosecutors in the Trump era won't pursue a Biden-era mission to get workers compensated after their employer refuses to work with their union, a prosecutor told the board, saying new NLRB general counsel Crystal Carey isn't planning to attack the board's Ex-Cell-O precedent.
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March 02, 2026
A warehouse, logistics and transportation company violated federal labor law by failing to timely respond to five employee grievances filed by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, the National Labor Relations Board has ruled.
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March 02, 2026
A Teamsters local urged an Alaska federal court to order a construction company to arbitrate grievances alleging it bypassed the union's hiring hall on infrastructure projects, arguing the contractor is breaching its collective bargaining agreement by refusing to arbitrate.
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March 02, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court refused to review baseball's long-standing exemption from federal antitrust law on Monday, in a case accusing a league in Puerto Rico of forcing out a team's owners.
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February 27, 2026
An Illinois federal judge won't block a new state law requiring charter schools to include a "union neutrality clause" in their charter agreements that instructs them to remain neutral on the unionization of their employees, ruling that the law is not unconstitutional.
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February 27, 2026
National Labor Relations Board general counsel Crystal Carey on Friday told regions to more selectively pursue cases accusing an employer of maintaining unlawful workplace rules, as part of a broader review of board case handling practices that she said will make the agency more efficient.
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February 27, 2026
A U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs field examiner was still a prevailing party entitled to recover attorney fees and costs after the department reinstated her with back pay following her removal, the Federal Circuit ruled on Friday.
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February 27, 2026
The National Labor Relations Board has revived accusations that Starbucks violated federal labor law during a union drive in Oklahoma City, vacating an order that had settled the case to Starbucks' satisfaction but drew protests from the union and board prosecutors.
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February 27, 2026
A group of former public officials and legal scholars have urged the First Circuit to revive a union-led challenge to the Trump administration's resignation program for federal employees, saying a lower court improperly expanded a doctrine for evaluating when disputes must go through administrative channels rather than court.
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February 27, 2026
In the next week, attorneys should watch for a preliminary settlement hearing in a long-running Grubhub driver classification suit that went to the Ninth Circuit. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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February 27, 2026
Amazon has urged a New York federal court to permanently bar a new law allowing the state to act on behalf of the National Labor Relations Board, arguing that the court has already issued a preliminary injunction determining that it is likely to succeed in its challenge to the law.