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March 05, 2026
An agreement Pfizer required employees to sign committing them to keeping details about arbitration proceedings secret does not violate federal labor law, the National Labor Relations Board ruled, though the board's Democratic member said the agency should reconsider its precedent for upholding such confidentiality agreements.
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March 04, 2026
A National Labor Relations Board member suggested at an American Bar Association conference Wednesday that the new majority may depart from a practice of withholding precedent changes without three votes and the new top prosecutor rebuffed calls from union attorneys to set out her legal priorities.
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March 04, 2026
A judge in Colorado federal court granted Wednesday a motion from a union group seeking to intervene to defend a Colorado statute challenged by a county that claims the law, which expands county employees' right to unionize, is unconstitutional.
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March 04, 2026
Recent decisions from the U.S. Supreme Court and a Connecticut federal judge have left state-level bans on so-called captive audience meetings intact for now, leaving employers needing to change tactics despite uncertainty about the policy at the state and federal levels.
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March 04, 2026
A New Jersey state appeals panel has reinstated an arbitration award ordering the city of Paterson to pay the dental health insurance plan costs for members of a firefighters union, ruling that the city must cover the costs under the terms of its contract with the union.
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March 04, 2026
The Trump administration cannot strip tens of thousands of federal workers of their job protections without violating their right to due process and treading on Congress' territory, a coalition of labor groups argued Wednesday, filing their latest challenge to the administration's quest to make federal workers easier to fire.
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March 04, 2026
A North Carolina radiology company violated federal labor law by offering a former employee a severance agreement that contained overly broad nondisparagement and confidentiality clauses, a National Labor Relations Board judge has ruled.
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March 04, 2026
A Dutch court blocked filmmakers in the U.S. from claiming payment for broadcasts of their work in the Netherlands, ruling Wednesday that the writers and directors routinely assign their copyrights to film studios under U.S. law.
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March 04, 2026
An arbitrator should have acknowledged U.S. Customs and Border Protection's argument that a union's policy-change grievance was untimely before sustaining the grievance, the Federal Labor Relations Authority determined Tuesday, remanding the grievance to the arbitrator with instructions to respond to the argument.
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March 04, 2026
Vartabedian Katz Hester & Haynes LLP has continued to expand a labor and employment practice the firm launched last month with two former DLA Piper partners, adding another partner and two senior associates from DLA Piper.
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March 03, 2026
Changes that National Labor Relations Board general counsel Crystal Carey laid out to case handling processes last week could ease the path to settlement and rein in the investigation of alleged rules violations, attorneys said, the latest move from the agency's new top prosecutor turning away from Biden-era practices.
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March 03, 2026
The National Labor Relations Board is taking steps to clear through its more than 16,000 pending cases, including bolstering its staff and spreading the pile across its operation, the official who oversees the agency's regional offices told an American Bar Association conference Tuesday.
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March 03, 2026
A California federal judge overseeing a lawsuit by federal worker unions, local governments and nonprofits challenging Trump administration layoffs expressed deep frustration Tuesday after a U.S. Department of Justice attorney contradicted a senior Federal Emergency Management Agency official's sworn declaration in the case.
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March 03, 2026
The Second Circuit should enforce the National Labor Relations Board's finding that a New York City car service company retaliated against its workers for joining a wage suit, board attorneys argued, urging the court to reject the company's contention that the drivers are independent contractors exempt from NLRB oversight.
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March 03, 2026
The National Labor Relations Board has urged the D.C. Circuit to reject the Service Employees International Union's challenge to the board's 2020 rule limiting the criteria for determining whether a business is a joint employer, arguing that the rule was adopted to help encourage stability and "meaningful collective bargaining."
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March 03, 2026
The NFL Players Association delayed and then dropped an injury grievance against the Baltimore Ravens without the permission of the player filing the grievance, according to a lawsuit against the union in Texas state court.
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March 03, 2026
The Fourth Circuit refused Tuesday to reopen a dispute over lifetime retirement health and life insurance benefits from a proposed class of retired coal miners, keeping in place a West Virginia federal court's judgment that broadly favored the company following a seven-day bench trial.
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March 03, 2026
A split Third Circuit panel said Tuesday it won't revive allegations that two companies owe about $800,000 to a union pension fund, ruling that a New Jersey federal judge properly tossed the claim because the fund waited eight years to tell the companies they owed the money.
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March 03, 2026
A union pension fund has dropped its lawsuit alleging that the Boston Globe failed to pay monthly contributions and provide records of the hours its employees worked, according to a filing in D.C. federal court.
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March 02, 2026
Members of the labor bar shared fears about the expected loss of the National Labor Relations Board's job protections Monday at an American Bar Association conference but struggled to offer viable solutions to the looming crisis.
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March 02, 2026
A Fifth Circuit panel wanted to know why investors should get another shot at a direct class action alleging that McDermott International Inc. made misrepresentations about a $6 billion merger, asking Monday if the case before the court was "analogous" to a case alleging the company overpaid for the merger.
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March 02, 2026
A D.C. federal judge has paused a challenge to the Trump administration's mass layoff of federal employees, telling a group of unions that he'll resume processing their lawsuit once rulings come down that clarify whether the case belongs before the Federal Labor Relations Authority.
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March 02, 2026
A Fifth Circuit judge said on Monday that the timing of Starbucks' firing of a California barista was "pretty extreme" and that management's words about benefits "do matter" as the court weighed the coffee giant's bid to overturn two unfavorable rulings by the National Labor Relations Board.
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March 02, 2026
A concrete company has urged the National Labor Relations Board to reopen the record on a labor dispute stemming from a 2017 strike organized by a Teamsters local, arguing that the union didn't fully comply with a subpoena related to its planning and preparation for the strike.
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March 02, 2026
National Labor Relations Board prosecutors in the Trump era won't pursue a Biden-era mission to get workers compensated after their employer refuses to work with their union, a prosecutor told the board, saying new NLRB general counsel Crystal Carey isn't planning to attack the board's Ex-Cell-O precedent.