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June 17, 2025
A New York federal judge on Tuesday extended a temporary restraining order prohibiting the U.S. Department of Labor from "suspending" most of the Job Corps program, which contractors and others say is tantamount to shuttering the youth education and vocational training program and will likely result in student homelessness.
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June 17, 2025
A D.C. federal judge on Tuesday chose not to pause an injunction order blocking the U.S. State Department from carrying out President Donald Trump's executive order gutting collective bargaining rights for federal workers, finding the government failed to prove it would face a high level of harm.
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June 17, 2025
The Fifth Circuit on Tuesday refused to revive a suit over a 2022 memo the National Labor Relations Board's general counsel issued arguing so-called captive audience meetings violate federal labor law, ruling the staffing companies challenging the memo don't have standing to bring their suit.
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June 17, 2025
A recent decision from the Fourth Circuit might signal that workers and unions challenging the Trump administration's efforts to trim the federal workforce will have an easier time proceeding in federal court rather than before administrative bodies, experts said.
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June 17, 2025
The National Labor Relations Board improperly ignored a Starbucks employee's impression of her manager's comments during a union campaign when concluding the comments were unlawful, a split Eighth Circuit panel ruled Tuesday, resolving a case that challenged the board's standard for determining when an employer's anti-union rhetoric violates labor law.
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June 17, 2025
Amazon violated federal labor law at a San Francisco warehouse in response to organizing with the Teamsters, National Labor Relations Board prosecutors alleged, claiming the e-commerce giant upped management's presence, threatened employees and fired workers to quell unionization efforts.
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June 17, 2025
General Motors urged an Indiana federal judge Tuesday to toss a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming it discriminated against older workers by reducing disability benefits if they also received Social Security, arguing the policy says nothing about age, allowing it to stand under high court precedent.
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June 17, 2025
The Ninth Circuit refused to disband a class of third-party payors who claim Takeda Pharmaceutical and Eli Lilly & Co. hid their anti-diabetes drug's bladder cancer risks, finding no issue with a lower court's analysis of expert evidence showing prescriptions fell after the risks were disclosed.
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June 17, 2025
A Teamsters local has urged an Ohio federal judge to toss a lawsuit filed by a former driver for a Midwest regional bakery, saying the worker can't back up his claim that the union failed to fight hard enough for his reinstatement.
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June 17, 2025
Federal labor law is not a "get-out-of-jail-free card" for union activists who violate an employer's policies, Starbucks argued to the Fifth Circuit, saying the National Labor Relations Board lacked evidence of anti-union bias when concluding the coffee chain illegally fired a barista in California.
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June 16, 2025
Petroleum company Sieveking Inc. was hit Monday with a $21 million withdrawal liability suit in Illinois federal court by a pension fund that says the company should be paying off its balance while it asks an arbitrator to weigh in.
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June 16, 2025
The Washington Post lawfully fired a reporter who spoke up about a co-worker's retweet that she found sexist, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled Monday, finding the journalist's remarks on social media disparaged the newspaper and did not link to a labor dispute.
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June 16, 2025
A New York federal judge on Monday dismissed two unions' challenge to the Trump administration's decision ending $400 million in funding to Columbia University, saying the unions cannot sue over funding that was never theirs.
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June 16, 2025
A group of security guards can't unionize at a bar and live music venue in Nashville, Tennessee, a National Labor Relations Board regional director concluded, finding some workers in the proposed bargaining unit are statutory supervisors.
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June 16, 2025
A group of unions and the AFL-CIO urged a New York federal judge to find the Trump administration's staffing cuts and shuttering of field offices at the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service are unlawful, arguing the government did not have an explanation for slashing the agency's services.
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June 13, 2025
A California federal judge said Friday that planned staff reductions at the State Department would violate her injunction blocking President Donald Trump's executive order directing layoffs at federal agencies, saying she's not persuaded by the government's assertion that the department's reorganization was underway before the order.
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June 13, 2025
The D.C. Circuit on Friday rejected the National Labor Relations Board's conclusions that a quarry operator unlawfully threatened to stop contributions to a pension fund for unionized workers, finding the board's "legal analysis is irrational" about whether the parties were at an impasse.
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June 13, 2025
A Washington, D.C., federal judge on Friday rejected the Trump administration's request to pause an order requiring the Democratic chair of the Federal Labor Relations Authority's reinstatement, finding the government's request is belated and that a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling doesn't necessarily support the stay.
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June 13, 2025
The Fourth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a Maryland mechanical contractor's lawsuit against a Sheet Metal Air Rail & Transportation Workers local on Friday, ruling that the union's alleged smear campaign against the company didn't rise to the level of an unfair labor practice under the National Labor Relations Act.
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June 13, 2025
This week, the Second Circuit will consider a former FedEx employee's attempt to revive his lawsuit claiming he was fired in retaliation for complaining about rampant harassment that management at the company did nothing to address. Here, Law360 looks at this and other cases on the docket in New York.
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June 13, 2025
Vox Media and the Writers Guild of America East notched a tentative three-year labor contract covering around 250 workers, the union announced Friday, coming to an agreement after a majority of the bargaining unit voted to authorize a strike.
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June 13, 2025
Trade groups urged the Eighth Circuit to overturn an order declining to block a Minnesota law from taking effect that slaps steep fines on companies that misclassify construction workers as independent contractors, saying they have standing to sue because their members will be harmed by the statute.
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June 13, 2025
The employees of a Lee's Summit, Missouri, office that helps U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services process benefit applications can vote on union representation, a National Labor Relations Board official said, rejecting the employer's argument that the union should also include employees of its Overland Park, Kansas, office.
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June 13, 2025
The Trump administration clarified that federal agencies should still use project labor agreements on large federal construction projects, weeks after a court vacated two agencies' directives that purported to eliminate this requirement.
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June 13, 2025
Oregon officials will appeal a federal judge's order barring enforcement of a voter-approved law that required licensed cannabis businesses to enter into labor peace pacts with their workers.