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May 14, 2026
Organized labor is making a public push to have a greater say in how employers implement artificial intelligence in the workplace, queuing up a strategy that relies on a mix of political advocacy and collective bargaining to address a technology that the labor movement is casting as a potential existential threat.
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May 14, 2026
A National Labor Relations Board suit accusing SpaceX of firing critics of boss Elon Musk is over after the Office of the General Counsel on Thursday denied workers' challenge to a finding that the company is outside the board's jurisdiction.
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May 14, 2026
The Machinists union's pension fund asked a D.C. federal court to approve an arbitrator's rejection of BAE Systems Inc.'s claims that the fund improperly calculated its roughly $16.2 million withdrawal liability.
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May 14, 2026
Callan LLC has reached a deal in a class action from a group of union carpenters who claimed the investment consulting firm and their pension funds' trustees lost them $250 million in assets by investing in Allianz index funds, according to a Washington federal court filing.
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May 14, 2026
Tennis players told a New York federal court their professional association is being denied access to the French Open and Wimbledon in retaliation for suing several tournament operators and the sports' governing bodies for allegedly acting like a cartel to control their wages and working conditions.
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May 14, 2026
A Seventh Circuit panel Thursday pressed counsel for a former Chicago Transit Authority bus driver on whether the record showed he was fired because he is transgender, rather than because he failed to follow procedures for taking leave, as he seeks to revive discrimination claims against the agency and union.
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May 14, 2026
Employers should be allowed to tell workers that unionizing could end their direct relationship with their managers, as well as hold mandatory meetings to discourage unionization, the National Labor Relations Board's general counsel said, asking the board to overturn a pair of Biden-era rulings that outlawed these tactics.
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May 14, 2026
The National Labor Relations Board cleared Apple of claims that it fired a worker for raising workplace concerns, affirming a judge's ruling that the worker raised only "personal gripes" in a series of disruptive mass emails.
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May 13, 2026
A Midwest paving and road construction company has urged the Sixth Circuit to rethink its recent decision finding that the company unlawfully locked out Michigan employees during a bargaining dispute with a union, arguing that the decision conflicts with a recent ruling made by the circuit court in a separate case.
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May 13, 2026
A divided Pennsylvania appeals panel on Wednesday held that administrators at a Pennsylvania university were allowed to remove a list of "infamous" strike-breaking union faculty members from a public bulletin board, even though the posting itself was legally protected.
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May 13, 2026
A Texas medical spa admitted to firing a worker because she'd discussed her pay with a co-worker, so it should be held liable for a National Labor Relations Act violation, agency prosecutors told a National Labor Relations Board administrative law judge after a hearing in a case against the spa.
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May 13, 2026
A proposed deal to settle a National Labor Relations Board case asserting that Amazon jointly employs its contract drivers — but without an admission that the retail giant is their joint employer — echoes the controversial end of an Obama-era case seeking to establish that McDonald's employs its franchisees' workers.
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May 13, 2026
A Colorado fire chief urged the Tenth Circuit Wednesday to find a lower court erred in denying him qualified immunity after terminating a union president, with the three-judge panel questioning the relationship between the union's collective bargaining agreement and the U.S. Constitution's requirements.
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May 13, 2026
The National Federation of Federal Employees and a group of federal workers are accusing the secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture of unlawfully imposing her religious views on a "captive audience" of agency employees through agency emails, according to a lawsuit filed in California federal court Wednesday.
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May 13, 2026
The Sixth Circuit should let the National Labor Relations Board keep using a 3-year-old legal test to decide when employers in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee must bargain with unions, the agency argued, asking the court to set aside a March decision to invalidate the test within its borders.
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May 13, 2026
The Tenth Circuit appeared skeptical Wednesday of an appeal from a Boilermaker-Blacksmith pension plan and its trustees in a dispute over early retirement benefits, with multiple judges seeming reluctant to overturn a Kansas judge's interpretation that the plan allowed non-boilermaker work after retirement, regardless of the employer's contribution status.
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May 13, 2026
Packaging company WestRock violated federal labor law by changing a health insurance plan for employees without bargaining to a good faith impasse with a Teamsters local, a National Labor Relations Board judge found.
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May 13, 2026
General Motors has urged a Tennessee federal court to dismiss a worker's disability discrimination and Family and Medical Leave Act suit, arguing the case is really a dispute over untimely leave paperwork rather than unlawful bias or retaliation.
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May 13, 2026
New York cannabis regulators are urging a federal court to throw out a dispensary's challenge to the requirement that cannabis operators sign labor peace agreements with unions, saying the courts can't help a company violate federal law.
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May 13, 2026
Air traffic controllers suing an aerospace company regarding overtime pay cannot be forced into arbitration because the company's collective bargaining agreement does not clearly waive workers' right to pursue Fair Labor Standards Act claims in federal court, an Oklahoma federal judge ruled.
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May 12, 2026
Seventh Circuit judges weighing the National Labor Relations Board's bid for an injunction requiring a truck seller to recognize a union it has twice rebuked seemed skeptical Tuesday that the company's employees face irreparable harm without it.
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May 12, 2026
Amazon engaged in "blatant forum shopping" by challenging its New York City warehouse workers' unionization in the Fifth Circuit instead of the Second Circuit, a Teamsters unit has argued, asking the Fifth Circuit to reject this "gamesmanship" and transfer the case to the region where the unionization took place.
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May 12, 2026
When Jennifer Henricks and Kevin Peters first learned what was happening to tenured professors at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston a few years ago, they knew that what was at stake involved more than just a dispute over the terms of a contract.
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May 12, 2026
The D.C. Circuit appeared skeptical Tuesday that the National Labor Relations Board unfairly refused to admit certain evidence in a picketing dispute as it probed a cleaning contractor's attempt to escape a redone ruling that it punished workers over a protected protest more than a decade ago.
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May 12, 2026
A Texas federal judge rejected another attempt by the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America to intervene in a suit challenging removal protections for National Labor Relations Board members and administrative law judges, ruling Tuesday that the union fell short of proving it has a right to intervene.