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June 26, 2025
A Nashville, Tennessee, medical college's suit challenging the National Labor Relations Board's constitutionality should stay in play, the school told a federal judge, arguing it could face broad remedies in an administrative case that infringe on its right to a jury trial.
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June 26, 2025
A former pro football player who claimed he was incorrectly sent to a Texas drug treatment center that abused him and physically blocked him from leaving has dropped his suit against the National Football League Players Association, as a Texas federal judge granted his unopposed motion to dismiss.
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June 25, 2025
A New York federal judge Wednesday issued a nationwide preliminary injunction prohibiting the U.S. Department of Labor from "suspending" most of the Job Corps program, ruling that Congress created the program and funded it, and the "DOL is not free to do as it pleases."
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June 25, 2025
Several Native American tribes are looking to intervene in a challenge to a Montana law that they allege harms the state's rural Indigenous communities by eliminating eight hours of voter registration on Election Day, arguing that it violates equal protection laws and due process ensured by the state's constitution.
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June 25, 2025
Staffers at the National Labor Relations Board's Chicago office didn't taint the results of a union representation election at a Chicagoland painting company by failing to store all the ballots in the same location, the company has argued, calling the issue a "minor irregularity" that didn't affect the outcome.
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June 25, 2025
An International Union of Operating Engineers local sued a landfill operator in Indiana federal court Wednesday seeking to vacate an arbitration award upholding a member's firing, saying the arbitrator made up the grievance prerequisite he knocked the union for botching.
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June 25, 2025
The U.S. Department of Labor defended its 2022 H-2A prevailing wage regulations against claims from a farmworker union in Washington federal court, arguing the agency's rules are lawful and must be upheld.
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June 25, 2025
The Fifth Circuit should uphold the National Labor Relations Board's finding that Starbucks sent overbroad subpoenas to two union-represented California workers who were testifying against the company, board attorneys argued, saying substantial evidence supports the board's finding that the subpoenas were designed to intimidate the workers.
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June 25, 2025
Several federal agencies must stop enforcing a part of President Donald Trump's executive order that would ax labor contracts covering agencies that have "national security" aims, a California federal judge ruled, finding unions showed they would suffer irreparable harm by losing collective bargaining rights.
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June 24, 2025
The Arkansas Insurance Department is looking to sink a challenge to a state insurance regulation filed by a Teamsters healthcare plan, telling an Illinois federal judge that the regulation isn't preempted by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act and, besides, the plan can't sue the department.
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June 24, 2025
The final approval of a landmark $2.78 billion class action settlement allowing NCAA colleges and universities to share revenues with athletes could blunt unionization efforts that have already stalled amid uncertainty at the National Labor Relations Board, experts said.
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June 24, 2025
Cornell University and the American Arbitration Association are working together to establish a nationwide service offering assistance with dispute resolution and mediation for labor contracts, with a former Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service officer leading as the executive manager.
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June 24, 2025
A pickle manufacturer in Brooklyn asked the National Labor Relations Board not to order the company to negotiate with a UFCW local, challenging an agency judge's conclusions that the business illegally refused to bargain about the effects of the sale of its retail business and layoffs.
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June 24, 2025
The widow of a former Cincinnati Reds pitcher is pushing to keep her lawsuit against Major League Baseball's pension plan alive, urging a Florida federal judge to preserve her legal fight for surviving spouse benefits in the face of the plan's motion to dismiss.
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June 23, 2025
The Trump administration is looking to scrap a union-brought challenge to the Department of Government Efficiency's ability to access Americans' Social Security information, telling a Maryland federal judge that the U.S. Supreme Court's recent pausing of an injunction won by the unions shows the administration's position is strong.
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June 23, 2025
A D.C. federal judge on Monday signaled doubt that the Trump administration was obeying his order to keep Voice of America up and running while a coalition of journalists, unions and a reporter advocacy group sue to keep the news agency intact.
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June 23, 2025
The full Fifth Circuit must review whether a Texas federal judge "effectively denied" Amazon's attempt to stop a National Labor Relations Board refusal-to-bargain case, the e-commerce giant argued, saying an appeals court panel's standard did not align with U.S. Supreme Court precedent.
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June 23, 2025
The U.S. Department of Labor has put a Biden-era regulation protecting union-related activities for agricultural workers on seasonal H-2A visas on ice while litigation over the rule continues and the agency considers new rulemaking.
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June 23, 2025
The Third Circuit on Monday backed the NLRB's findings that a lone fired worker's COVID-19 safety complaints were concerted activity under federal labor law, but remanded the case to the board in order to weigh evidence about whether the worker would have been fired regardless of whether he spoke up.
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June 23, 2025
A Toyota facility in Southern California has largely stopped doing business with a freight company whose Teamsters-represented workers are on strike, the company said in an $11 million federal court suit against the union, accusing it of illegally picketing that facility and several others.
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June 20, 2025
The Texas Supreme Court on Friday put wind beneath the wings of a Southwest Airline Pilots Association's suit aiming to hold Boeing responsible for its members' economic losses after regulators grounded the 737 Max aircraft, finding the Railway Labor Act does not preempt the union's claims.
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June 20, 2025
Lockheed Martin escaped retaliation and discrimination allegations from a fired mechanical inspector, a Texas federal judge ruled Friday, concluding the worker had not proved that race bias or whistleblowing led to his termination two years ago.
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June 20, 2025
In the coming week, a New York federal judge will consider a medical clinic's motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a former physician who claims he had his bonus withheld and was fired for complaining about conditions and practices at the clinic. Here, Law360 looks at this and other cases on the docket in New York.
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June 20, 2025
A few states are mulling measures that would empower their labor arbiters to step in for the National Labor Relations Board as its staff struggles and the president's firing of a board member and failure to nominate new ones keep the agency from functioning fully.
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June 20, 2025
Crew members working for HBO and a production company were paid several days late and were often required to work through their meal and rest breaks, a Private Attorneys General Act lawsuit filed in California state court said.