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December 10, 2024
An Illinois steel manufacturer must reinstate six employees who were fired after they walked off the job to protest their work conditions, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, saying the firings violated the National Labor Relations Act.
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December 10, 2024
A Connecticut federal judge has given the state's attorney general a chance to intervene in a nurses union's suit against a hospital over its practice of requiring nurses to work overtime, saying the constitutionality of a new state statute is at the heart of this dispute.
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December 10, 2024
A Washington, D.C., federal judge on Tuesday sided with a Massachusetts hospital in its challenge to National Labor Relations Board judges' job protections, saying the board's judges must be removable at will, but stopping short of holding that their protections are a basis for blocking cases they're currently hearing.
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December 09, 2024
The Third Circuit upheld on Monday a National Labor Relations Board decision finding a New Jersey nursing home illegally cut or stopped COVID-19 bonuses for unionized workers, supporting the board's assertion that the bonuses were hazard pay that the company was required to negotiate with the union.
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December 09, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board wasn't required to hold a hearing before finding an Illinois plumbing and fire suppression company violated its settlement with a plumbers local, the board told the Seventh Circuit, asking the court to reject the company's argument that its due process rights were violated.
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December 09, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor urged a Texas federal court to grant it a win in two trade associations' lawsuit over its final rule updating prevailing wage rates for federal construction projects, saying the groups can't show they are harmed by these Davis-Bacon Act changes.
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December 09, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court has dashed a Broadway producer's hopes that it would breathe new life into his claims accusing a stage workers union of breaking antitrust laws by discouraging members from working with him following complaints about unpaid wages.
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December 09, 2024
A chemical manufacturer's Seventh Amendment claim won't stop agency prosecutors' request for a remedy requiring the company to pay for lost bargaining opportunities, a divided National Labor Relations Board panel determined, saying the U.S. Supreme Court has blessed the lack of a jury trial in board cases.
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December 09, 2024
A United Airlines flight attendant withdrew the grievance she filed after getting fired over a 2021 passenger confrontation regarding mask compliance, and thus gave up her shot to sue her union, the union told a Colorado federal court, seeking to dismiss the worker's fair representation allegations.
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December 06, 2024
The AFL-CIO has backed the National Labor Relations Board in opposing a lighting company's attempt to block the agency from pursuing a case against it over what the company alleges are unconstitutional removal protections of its members, saying the company hasn't met its burden of showing the president wanted to fire board members.
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December 06, 2024
Teamsters leaders announced Friday that they've given Amazon until Dec. 15 to agree to bargaining dates for a first contract, saying the company will "face the consequences of its inaction" if it does not.
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December 06, 2024
The SAG-AFTRA Health Plan lacked adequate security to keep personal information safe from a September data breach, two members alleged in California federal court, saying a proposed class is at risk for a "full gamut of cyber-crimes," including identity theft and phishing scams.
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December 06, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump is considering the unprecedented move of firing the National Labor Relations Board's Democratic members, which could hamper the agency and kick off a legal battle with far-reaching consequences.
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December 06, 2024
A hospital urged a Connecticut federal court to throw out a nurses union's lawsuit that seeks to bar the hospital from forcing nurses to work overtime, saying the union's attempt to invoke a state law flies in the face of the terms set out in a collective bargaining agreement.
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December 06, 2024
A panel of International Brotherhood of Boilermakers vice presidents had the power to oust the union's president on corruption charges, the Tenth Circuit held, affirming a Kansas federal judge's ruling.
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December 06, 2024
Ballots challenged in a representation election at a cannabis product manufacturer in Washington state should be counted, a National Labor Relations Board judge concluded, tossing the company's claims that some voters are ineligible because they are agricultural laborers who aren't covered under federal labor law.
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December 06, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for a potential ruling on a motion for judgment or a new trial in a COVID-19 vaccination mandate case by San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District workers. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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December 06, 2024
This week, the Second Circuit will consider an attempt from workers to revive their suit accusing a fire suppression company of violating state and federal wage and hour law by not paying them prevailing wages on public projects. Here, Law360 looks at this and other cases on the docket in New York.
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December 05, 2024
An Ohio airport authority should be ordered to allow Scabby the Rat to protest a benefits agreement dispute near a future groundbreaking ceremony, a union argued to a federal judge Thursday, saying a bar on displaying the inflatable rodent violates its free speech rights.
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December 05, 2024
A Sony subsidiary violated federal labor law by attempting to restrict leafleting activity at a video game studio in Los Angeles, the Communications Workers of America alleged in an unfair labor practice charge obtained by Law360 on Thursday.
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December 05, 2024
A Colorado sheriff is suing the state to challenge application of a collective bargaining law to him, arguing in a complaint filed Wednesday in Denver District Court that applying the law to sheriffs interferes with their legal authority and independence.
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December 05, 2024
The D.C. Circuit appeared skeptical Thursday of a National Labor Relations Board decision finding a quarry violated federal labor law by threatening to withdraw from a pension plan without reaching an impasse in bargaining, with one judge suggesting the union and company had clearly deadlocked on the issue.
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December 05, 2024
UPS has reached a deal with a deaf package handler to shutter his suit filed in Wisconsin federal court claiming the delivery company wouldn't provide interpreters for important meetings and blocked him from securing promotions, according to a court filing Thursday.
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December 05, 2024
Workers at a Michigan ambulance services company may vote on whether they want a new union representing them, a National Labor Relations Board official concluded, finding the company's existing contract with an incumbent United Food and Commercial Workers local doesn't prevent the election from proceeding.
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December 05, 2024
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette should not have to cover its striking workers' healthcare costs as punishment for alleged bad-faith bargaining, the newspaper argued to a Pennsylvania federal judge, saying it already worked out its healthcare obligations with the workers' unions in 2020.