Two Starbucks workers seeking to void National Labor Relations Board members' job protections urged the D.C. Circuit to keep a challenge to their suit's dismissal alive over the objections of the board, which argued its acceptance of the workers' argument moots the case.
National Labor Relations Board general counsel nominee Crystal Carey has taken some criticism for her employment with Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, a prominent management-side firm that represents big-name clients before the board. Here, Law360 explores federal officials' ethics obligations and what they may mean for Carey's potential role as the labor board's next top cop.
SpaceX and the National Labor Relations Board asked the Fifth Circuit to pause one of the rocket-maker's constitutional challenges to the board's structure, saying the board is investigating whether SpaceX is an air carrier whose labor-management relations are overseen by the National Mediation Board rather than the NLRB.
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Two Starbucks workers seeking to void National Labor Relations Board members' job protections urged the D.C. Circuit to keep a challenge to their suit's dismissal alive over the objections of the board, which argued its acceptance of the workers' argument moots the case.
National Labor Relations Board general counsel nominee Crystal Carey has taken some criticism for her employment with Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, a prominent management-side firm that represents big-name clients before the board. Here, Law360 explores federal officials' ethics obligations and what they may mean for Carey's potential role as the labor board's next top cop.
SpaceX and the National Labor Relations Board asked the Fifth Circuit to pause one of the rocket-maker's constitutional challenges to the board's structure, saying the board is investigating whether SpaceX is an air carrier whose labor-management relations are overseen by the National Mediation Board rather than the NLRB.
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April 28, 2025
Amazon didn't violate federal labor law by firing and disciplining workers while a union organizing effort was taking off at a facility near the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, the e-commerce giant argued, alleging National Labor Relations Board attorneys are seeking an unconstitutional nationwide notice-reading remedy.
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April 28, 2025
The Ninth Circuit on Monday refused to reopen a former bartender's lawsuit alleging a Las Vegas hotel forced her to take leave and eventually fired her for tremors caused by her cancer treatment, saying she hadn't provided enough evidence to back up her claims.
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April 28, 2025
A New York federal judge should block the U.S. Office of Personnel Management from disclosing information about federal employees to Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, three unions argued in an updated injunction request, saying their position is stronger now that the judge denied the government's dismissal bid.
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April 28, 2025
The U.S. government asked a D.C. federal court to throw out four organizations' bid to keep the White House's Department of Government Efficiency from accessing confidential taxpayer data, saying their suit fails to show injury to the groups' members.
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April 28, 2025
President Donald Trump disputed the American Foreign Service Association's injunction bid to block portions of his executive order that gutted collective bargaining rights for federal workers, telling a D.C. federal judge the union could still receive dues and represent employees in the grievance process.
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April 28, 2025
The United Parcel Service deducted hundreds of dollars from unionized workers' April 3 paychecks without their consent, a Teamsters unit and four employees told a New York federal court.
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April 28, 2025
A Pennsylvania federal judge properly concluded that a healthcare dispute between a power plant operator and an International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers local was arbitrable, the union said, asking the Third Circuit to uphold the judge's decision to send the fight to arbitration.
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April 25, 2025
A Washington, D.C., federal judge on Friday blocked President Donald Trump's order last month seeking to end collective bargaining for workers at more than a dozen federal agencies with national security roles, two days after suggesting during oral arguments that Trump's order was retaliatory.
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April 25, 2025
A group of unions lack standing to ask a New York federal judge to reverse staffing cuts and field office closures at the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, the federal government has argued, opposing the group's bid for an injunction undoing the shrinkage of the labor-management dispute resolution agency.
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April 25, 2025
Four local governments have joined with a government employees union to challenge the federal government's termination of $11 billion in grants stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, seeking an injunction restoring the funds and a declaration that the decision to mass-terminate the grants was unlawful.
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April 25, 2025
A Detroit water infrastructure company accused the National Labor Relations Board's acting general counsel of a "procedural ambush" when his office asked to pursue "direct or foreseeable" harms under the board's Thryv decision, saying the counsel's request to revise an exception filed by agency prosecutors came nearly three years late.
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April 25, 2025
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for arguments regarding conditional collective certification in a discrimination suit against Workday Inc. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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April 25, 2025
The federal government can't revoke funding from schools associated with the National Education Association and two other educator groups because of the institutions' diversity, equity and inclusion policies, a New Hampshire federal judge ruled, saying the organizations will likely succeed in their suit claiming government guidance was unlawfully vague.
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April 25, 2025
This week, the Second Circuit will consider whether to revive a lawsuit brought by a former New York City day care center worker who claims he was denied overtime pay under state and federal law.
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April 24, 2025
A worker rights group has filed an unfair labor practice charge against Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP with the National Labor Relations Board, claiming that the firm restricted access to email distribution lists to "suppress employee discussions" about Skadden's deal with the Trump administration.
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April 24, 2025
Three nurses who work in a Minnesota hospital's cardiovascular imaging department can vote on joining the union that represents the hospital's other 1,300 nurses, a National Labor Relations Board official has ruled, setting an election for later this month.
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April 24, 2025
A National Treasury Employees Union affiliate urged a Kentucky federal judge Thursday not to find the U.S. Department of the Treasury can lawfully terminate its labor contracts with the national union, arguing the district court does not have jurisdiction and the agency can't request an advisory opinion.
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April 24, 2025
William Emanuel, a former National Labor Relations Board member and veteran management-side labor attorney, has died, a friend and management bar colleague told Law360.
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April 24, 2025
The Seventh Circuit upheld Thursday a trial court's ruling that two employers aren't required to pay a higher rate calculating how much it would cost to jump ship from a failing pension plan, knocking down arguments from the pension fund that an exception to the rate limit applied.
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April 24, 2025
A construction company disputed the National Labor Relations Board's interpretation of a nearly 70-year-old board precedent when finding an International Union of Operating Engineers local timely withdrew from multiemployer bargaining, telling the Sixth Circuit the company lawfully locked out employees to push the union to negotiate.
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April 24, 2025
A janitorial company that serves two Veterans Administration hospitals in Puerto Rico violated federal labor law by failing to give its employees' union information about workers' schedules, pay and time off, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled.
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April 23, 2025
The Government Accountability Office has dismissed a Georgia-based construction contractor's request to reconsider its January decision rejecting its challenge to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' denial of its building repair contract proposal.
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April 23, 2025
The National Treasury Employees Union has hit back at a Trump administration bid to resume mass layoffs of nearly all the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's workforce, urging the D.C. Circuit to leave a federal judge's temporary restraining order in place.
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April 23, 2025
The United Auto Workers' campaign to organize automakers in the South appears to have hit a roadblock in the year since the union notched a landmark representation election victory at a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee, but experts said reaching a strong contract there could help jump-start the union's ambitions.
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April 23, 2025
A D.C. federal judge must not disturb President Donald Trump's executive order aimed at making it easier to fire career federal employees, the government argued in a motion to dismiss, saying two unions that brought the challenge lack standing and their allegations are unripe for the court.