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August 06, 2025
The Sixth Circuit on Wednesday said a pension fund's actuary must redo his estimate of a Michigan-based paving company's withdrawal liability, likening the actuary to an oddsmaker giving a bad estimate of how many points a college basketball team will give up in a game because he is "just rude."
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August 06, 2025
A Colorado federal judge threw out a suit by a Kroger-owned grocery chain against a United Food and Commercial Workers local on Wednesday, finding the company didn't plausibly allege the union committed coercion when it called a strike.
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August 06, 2025
A New York City hotel must fork over $60,000 in back pay to its food and beverage attendants after its bartenders decreased the attendants' share of tips nearly 15 years ago, a federal judge ruled, confirming a series of arbitration awards over the hotel's protests.
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August 06, 2025
A bulk transportation hauler and a logistics provider accused a Teamsters local of unlawfully pushing other employers to stop doing business with the companies, according to an Illinois federal court complaint, alleging the union's actions were aimed at making the companies sign a collective bargaining agreement.
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August 06, 2025
A construction equipment company in Illinois lawfully terminated a probationary employee, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, determining the timing of the worker's firing was not suspicious despite a supervisor questioning him about his union affiliation.
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August 06, 2025
A hospice center in Washington state violated federal labor law by switching its workers from full-time to part-time status without adequately negotiating with their union, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled while also docking the facility for eight unlawful discharges.
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August 06, 2025
The city of Flint has reached a $225,000 settlement with a former fire chief who has alleged he was fired for refusing to claw back his public recommendation to terminate firefighters for their alleged racist misconduct at a house fire, and the city council is poised to review the agreement at its August meeting.
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August 05, 2025
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Tuesday threw out age bias and retaliation claims from a longtime Teamsters member who alleged his union and two production companies conspired not to hire him for a Tom Hanks film, finding the worker failed to show he experienced an adverse employment action.
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August 05, 2025
The Ninth Circuit held a California car dealership in contempt for not complying with a panel's decision enforcing an NLRB order finding the company unlawfully refused to bargain with a machinists union, saying the company waived its argument that the order was invalid because the board is unconstitutionally structured.
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August 05, 2025
A union representing thousands of foreign service workers called on a D.C. federal judge to determine that President Donald Trump went too far with an executive order gutting collective bargaining rights for federal workers, alleging the directive violates the First Amendment.
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August 05, 2025
A United Airlines technician who believes the company shorted him and his co-workers on raises filed a proposed class action against the airline and the Teamsters in California federal court, accusing the airline of violating its union contract's raise policy and the Teamsters of inadequately pressing the issue.
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August 05, 2025
A cattle hide processor in Minnesota did not violate federal labor law by demoting an employee who filed a grievance seeking extra compensation, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, finding the company lawfully reassigned the worker after he did not complete a task.
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August 04, 2025
A pension fund for former Yellow Corp. employees who were members of a Teamsters local has requested permission to directly appeal to the Third Circuit a dispute in Delaware bankruptcy court over the insolvent trucking firm's fund withdrawal liabilities.
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August 04, 2025
Holtec International asked the Sixth Circuit on Monday to reverse a lower court's decision declining to vacate a union arbitration award the company argued should have named a subsidiary instead, saying the court used a doctrine meant to correct naming errors to upend the statute of limitations for modifying arbitration awards.
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August 04, 2025
The Eleventh Circuit backed a pension fund's calculations that a wholesale bakery company may have to pay as much as $15.6 million after exiting the benefits plan, ruling it properly applied a credit outlined in the Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendments Act.
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August 04, 2025
Some nursing staff at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's women's hospital will decide whether they want to be represented by a Service Employees International Union affiliate, a National Labor Relations Board regional director found, determining certain charge nurses are not supervisors under federal labor law.
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August 04, 2025
The United Food and Commercial Workers and Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union have agreed to a structure for bargaining at unionized REI stores, with the outdoor equipment retailer promising to provide raises and bonuses for the past two years and the unions dropping unfair labor practice cases.
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August 04, 2025
Chris Braham of McDermott Will & Emery LLP helped Circle K defeat a Fair Credit Reporting Act case that went to a California appellate court and helped Darden Restaurants survive an advocacy organization's discrimination suit, earning him a spot among the employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 04, 2025
The U.S. Postal Service violated federal labor law by not allowing a union to interview supervisors about another management official accused of harassing employees, a National Labor Relations judge ruled, concluding the union did not seek to question the supervisors in bad faith.
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August 04, 2025
The Fifth Circuit should reconsider its June panel decision to toss a challenge to a 2022 memo by the National Labor Relations Board general counsel on standing grounds, a group of staffing companies argued, saying the court imposed too high a bar for proving standing.
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August 04, 2025
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP is continuing to grow on the West Coast, announcing Monday that it has added seven lawyers from K&L Gates LLP to its newly launched Seattle office and one to its Los Angeles location.
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August 01, 2025
The Ninth Circuit on Aug. 1 granted the Trump administration's bid to halt an injunction blocking enforcement of President Donald Trump's executive order axing labor contracts covering agencies with "national security" aims, saying in a published opinion that the government was likely to succeed against six unions' First Amendment retaliation claim.
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August 01, 2025
An Oregon distillery has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to revive its challenge of a National Labor Relations Board decision that dinged the liquor maker for unfair labor practices, saying clarity was needed for a legal standard that the distillery says has allowed NLRB decisions to escape judicial review.
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August 01, 2025
A North Jersey contractor can't use the fact it hasn't employed union workers in years to duck its obligations under an automatically renewing contract with a Sheet Metal Workers local, a split Third Circuit ruled Friday, upholding a New Jersey federal judge's decision.
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August 01, 2025
A Michigan furniture manufacturer and its shipping partner cannot get interest and attorney fees in a dispute with a Teamsters-affiliated pension fund, an Illinois federal judge ruled, finding the fund's bid to increase the amount of money the companies owed was not made in bad faith.