A D.C. federal judge denied requests Thursday to block the president from carrying out three federal downsizing initiatives, rejecting unions' argument that their challenge is an exception to the rule that federal union disputes belong before the agency charged with adjudicating them.
National Labor Relations Board prosecutors requested a Cemex bargaining order against Starbucks related to its alleged federal labor law violations at a Missouri store, after asking for a filing extension to make sure its post-hearing brief "reflects the views" of the agency's new acting general counsel.
Acting National Labor Relations Board general counsel William Cowen took an expected first step toward altering the agency's trajectory when he moved to rescind some of his predecessor's highest-profile initiatives, but more lasting changes might require President Donald Trump to nominate a new general counsel and board members.
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A D.C. federal judge denied requests Thursday to block the president from carrying out three federal downsizing initiatives, rejecting unions' argument that their challenge is an exception to the rule that federal union disputes belong before the agency charged with adjudicating them.
National Labor Relations Board prosecutors requested a Cemex bargaining order against Starbucks related to its alleged federal labor law violations at a Missouri store, after asking for a filing extension to make sure its post-hearing brief "reflects the views" of the agency's new acting general counsel.
Acting National Labor Relations Board general counsel William Cowen took an expected first step toward altering the agency's trajectory when he moved to rescind some of his predecessor's highest-profile initiatives, but more lasting changes might require President Donald Trump to nominate a new general counsel and board members.
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February 21, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday ruled a group of Alabama unemployment applicants can pursue allegations that delays in the state's benefits review process violated their federal civil rights, holding a state law that requires litigants to exhaust administrative remedies before filing suit doesn't bar their procedural claims.
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February 20, 2025
The U.S. Office of Personnel Management lacked the authority to order federal agencies to lay off tens of thousands of probationary employees, a group of unions representing federal workers argued in a new lawsuit in California federal court, looking to nullify the office's Feb. 13 mass-layoff directive.
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February 20, 2025
A Texas federal judge on Thursday paused a constitutional challenge against the National Labor Relations Board from a Starbucks worker represented by the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, after the parties requested a stay in light of former board member Gwynne Wilcox's suit over her firing.
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February 20, 2025
Congressional Democrats, tax and economic policy groups and an IRS workers union warned Thursday that the termination of thousands of Internal Revenue Service employees that began the same day could threaten the agency's ability to enforce tax laws and hamper taxpayer services amid tax-filing season.
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February 20, 2025
Worker and consumer advocates asked a D.C. federal judge Thursday to make the Department of Government Efficiency detail its probes into three federal agencies, arguing the information is needed to resolve their claims that the new entity's audits violate the public's privacy rights.
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February 20, 2025
Portions of a New York agricultural labor law related to a card-check process for unionization and impasse arbitration can stand, the Second Circuit ruled, upholding a lower court's partial denial of an injunction bid from a farming group based on due process and other constitutional claims.
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February 20, 2025
Preschool teachers employed by a Jewish community center in and around Columbus, Ohio, can't unionize, a National Labor Relations Board official has ruled, saying the employer qualifies as a religious institution that the board lacks jurisdiction over.
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February 19, 2025
An '80s-themed diner in Houston asked the Fifth Circuit to invalidate the National Labor Relations Board's finding that it violated federal labor law by firing eight strikers, challenging the board's authority and arguing that half the workers were supervisors unprotected by the National Labor Relations Act.
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February 19, 2025
Trader Joe's objections to a 70-70 union representation vote at a Chicago store don't justify a rerun election, a National Labor Relations Board regional director concluded, finding a single challenged ballot from a transferred worker must be counted.
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February 19, 2025
A farmworker union called on a Washington federal court to stop the U.S. Department of Labor from approving H-2A job orders that do not pay prevailing wages, arguing the practice depresses domestic wages.
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February 19, 2025
An Illinois federal judge on Tuesday granted attorneys' fees in connection with work to file a sanctions motion against a union local in a federal benefits lawsuit against their multiemployer union health fund but reduced the total grant to about half of what was requested.
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February 19, 2025
A Louisiana landscaping company violated federal labor law when its managers fired, threatened, throttled and pulled a gun on a group of employees who confronted them about withheld pay, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled.
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February 19, 2025
President Donald Trump's nominee for U.S. Department of Labor secretary said during a Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday that although she previously backed pro-organizing legislation as a member of the U.S. House, she is "no longer" a lawmaker and would follow Trump's agenda.
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February 18, 2025
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday to limit the autonomy of independent agencies such as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Federal Communications Commission by requiring them to submit draft regulations for presidential review.
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February 18, 2025
A D.C. federal judge blocked President Donald Trump from removing the Democratic head of the Merit Systems Protection Board on Tuesday, dealing an initial blow to the administration's argument that limits on the president's power to remove agency officials are unconstitutional.
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February 18, 2025
A hospital affiliated with the University of Kentucky did not violate federal labor law by withdrawing a union's recognition and not giving probationary employees a ratification bonus, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled Tuesday, dismissing all allegations from an unfair labor practice complaint.
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February 18, 2025
A Washington, D.C., federal judge appeared concerned Tuesday with the havoc the president's downsizing initiatives may wreak on agencies and federal-sector unions but uncertain that those unions can ask the courts to step in.
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February 18, 2025
A Washington federal judge has rejected a farmworker union's claims that the U.S. Department of Labor violated a court injunction by greenlighting H-2A contracts that do not include 2020 prevailing wage rates for the upcoming cherry and apple harvests.
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February 18, 2025
President Donald Trump flouted U.S. Supreme Court precedent and the U.S. Constitution when removing former National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox, the Constitutional Accountability Center argued in an amicus brief in Washington, D.C., federal court, urging the judge to greenlight Wilcox's expedited summary judgment bid.
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February 18, 2025
Three California business groups have asked a federal judge to block the state's new ban on so-called captive audience meetings, arguing in a motion for preliminary injunction that the law is preempted by the National Labor Relations Act.
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February 18, 2025
A former Verizon employee urged a New York federal court to grant him a win in his lawsuit against his former employer and the Communications Workers of America, saying he was only fired for using the N-word because he's white and the union wished to avoid negative publicity.
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February 18, 2025
A federal judge should block the U.S. Treasury Department's reported provision of taxpayer data to the Department of Government Efficiency, halt DOGE's access and order its software uninstalled from Treasury systems, unions and advocacy organizations said in a complaint.
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February 18, 2025
The D.C. Circuit on Tuesday denied a building management services company's challenge to a union representation election based on the claim that a National Labor Relations Board official left a ballot box unattended, supporting the board's conclusion that the business illegally refused to bargain.
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February 18, 2025
A Boston-based UNITE HERE local defeated a fired casino doorman's claim that the union violated federal labor law by refusing to fight for his reinstatement, with a National Labor Relations Board judge ruling that the union had legitimate reasons for opting not to file a grievance about the discharge.
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February 17, 2025
A Washington, D.C. federal judge again declined to block Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency from accessing three federal agencies' data, saying worker and consumer advocates haven't shown that the department's agents don't belong.