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May 09, 2024
Dancers in the Miami City Ballet can vote on representation by the American Guild of Musical Artists, a National Labor Relations Board official held, rejecting the ballet's claim that an existing labor contract forecloses the possibility of a union election.
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May 09, 2024
As protests over the Israel-Hamas war spill into the workplace, workers have accused their employers of suppressing their labor rights in a test of the National Labor Relations Act's nuanced protections for political advocacy.
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May 09, 2024
A New York federal judge hearing a dispute over a leadership election at the Amazon Labor Union on Thursday ordered Amazon to turn over an employee mailing list to a neutral monitor, saying the information is necessary to notify members of the coming vote.
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May 09, 2024
A Sixth Circuit panel questioned on Thursday a National Labor Relations Board decision finding a Michigan nursing home violated federal labor law with its handling of temporary hazard pay and staffing during the COVID-19 pandemic, with judges appearing skeptical the company had to bargain over the changes.
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May 09, 2024
A New Jersey concrete manufacturer illegally told striking employees they could return to work only if they resigned from their Teamsters local, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, rejecting the company's argument that it shouldn't face a labor law violation because it rescinded the statement.
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May 09, 2024
Starbucks committed "serious and widespread unfair labor practices" at two stores in Cleveland where union organizing campaigns were underway, a National Labor Relations Board judge concluded, finding the coffee chain must read a notice to workers about their rights.
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May 09, 2024
Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su on Thursday defended President Joe Biden's U.S. Department of Labor budget, telling a Senate panel that such funding is necessary to recover workers' stolen wages and fight unlawful child labor, among other priorities.
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May 08, 2024
A split National Labor Relations Board panel said Wednesday that George Washington University Hospital sabotaged union negotiations with unworkable proposals, reasserting precedent that employers bargain in bad faith by insisting on contract provisions that effectively nullify unions.
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May 08, 2024
Employers contesting National Labor Relations Board decisions are preparing arguments in anticipation of looming U.S. Supreme Court rulings that could overhaul the deference administrative agencies receive from federal courts under a landmark doctrine known as Chevron deference, though experts say it's unclear how courts will handle the current uncertainty.
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May 08, 2024
A Colorado county sheriff whose staff is unionizing has sued the state over the 2023 law that gave his workers the right to organize, seeking a declaration that the law does not apply to his office.
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May 08, 2024
Apple violated federal labor law by denying a Communications Workers of America supporter's requests for leave at a New Jersey store, according to an unfair labor practice charge obtained by Law360 on Wednesday, ahead of a union representation election set to begin at the end of this week.
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May 08, 2024
A Starbucks manager unlawfully threatened a worker while discussing a Workers United organizing campaign at a Wisconsin cafe, a divided National Labor Relations Board determined, with the board's lone Republican finding what the manager said didn't rise to the level of a threat or interrogation.
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May 08, 2024
A farmworkers union in Washington state is challenging rules the U.S. Department of Labor introduced in 2022 that the union said are depressing farmworkers' wages.
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May 08, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board found an agency judge wrongly denied Amazon's request for an in-person hearing over an unfair labor practice complaint alleging the company illegally disciplined a worker, saying there weren't "compelling circumstances" to warrant a remote proceeding.
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May 07, 2024
Almost three-quarters of U.S. employers share great concern over the impact the U.S. Department of Labor's and the National Labor Relations Board's enforcement actions will have on their businesses, according to a survey Littler Mendelson PC released Wednesday.
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May 07, 2024
The D.C. Circuit rejected on Tuesday a Puerto Rico hospital's request for an en banc rehearing over the appeals court's decision to affirm the National Labor Relations Board's conclusions that the hospital illegally withdrew a union's recognition after becoming a successor employer.
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May 07, 2024
A Michigan federal judge should wait on deciding whether to issue an injunction against Starbucks in a wrongful firing case out of Ann Arbor, the company argued, saying the U.S. Supreme Court must first decide a case concerning how injunctions are dispensed to National Labor Relations Board prosecutors.
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May 07, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board is fighting a Texas federal judge's decision striking down the board's 2023 joint employer rule, telling the court on Tuesday that the agency will appeal the ruling to the Fifth Circuit.
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May 07, 2024
A Washington state judge won't toss a shareholder suit accusing Starbucks' corporate leadership of diminishing stock values by allowing store managers to quash baristas' organizing efforts.
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May 07, 2024
Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC has added a labor and employment partner from Michigan firm Miller Canfield Paddock & Stone PLC to its Detroit office, the firm announced Tuesday.
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May 07, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court shouldn't overturn the Ninth Circuit's affirmation of a National Labor Relations Board decision ordering a hotel to rehire 100 union-represented workers, a UNITE HERE affiliate argued, because there isn't disagreement between circuit courts over the evidence required to show anti-union animus.
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May 07, 2024
Dump truck drivers for a Seattle-area construction company did not violate the no-strike provisions of a set of labor contracts by supporting a strike on a different company, the drivers' union told a Washington federal court, seeking dismissal of the breach-of-contract claim in the company's lawsuit against the union.
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May 07, 2024
Unions help women earn higher wages and narrow gender pay gaps, according to an analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data by the National Women’s Law Center. Here, Law360 speaks with the law center’s senior counsel Adrienne DerVartanian about the protections unions afford women and others.
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May 06, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board on Monday upheld a judge's ruling that Apple violated federal labor law when a manager asked a worker about his views on a union drive and his discussions with co-workers.
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May 06, 2024
The Amazon Labor Union and members of a reform caucus fought against Amazon's challenge in New York federal court to requests for workers' contact information ahead of an officers vote, with the union saying the e-commerce conglomerate isn't facing a burden.