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May 01, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit on Friday affirmed the National Labor Relations Board's ruling that lieutenants who oversee guards at a Florida power plant are not union-ineligible supervisors, backing the board's finding that they don't use judgment when writing up lower-level workers.
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May 01, 2026
The National Labor Relations Board partially reversed an agency judge's decision finding that three Texas symphony orchestras unlawfully bypassed a union to negotiate with employees on wages, finding that the previous ruling was based on a violation that was not alleged or "fully or fairly litigated."
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May 01, 2026
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for a final approval hearing on a $50 million deal to resolve a race discrimination suit against Google. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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May 01, 2026
This week, the Second Circuit will consider whether to revive a proposed class action accusing a social worker accreditation nonprofit of violating federal civil rights law by designing a test that disproportionately failed Black and Hispanic applicants and concealed that fact after learning about the bias.
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April 30, 2026
A watchdog overseeing United Auto Workers' kickback-scandal reforms told a Michigan federal judge Thursday that union President Shawn Fain's misconduct accusations against Secretary-Treasurer Margaret Mock were false and retaliatory but that there was "significant dysfunction" regarding the management of the UAW's "strike trust" investments.
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April 30, 2026
A union-backed proposal to speed negotiations over first labor contracts that has drawn rare Republican support in Congress may soon come up for consideration in the House, leading business groups to mount opposition to a proposal they say would impose unrealistic timelines on contract negotiations.
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April 30, 2026
Maryland has become the 14th state to ban employers from holding mandatory anti-union meetings, joining Maine, Illinois, Minnesota and others in outlawing what labor activists call captive audience meetings.
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April 30, 2026
A D.C. federal court rejected scientists' bid to block NASA from shuttering its largest research library and suspending access to a related database for space mission documentation, finding they failed to show irreparable harm.
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April 30, 2026
The operators of a New York City hotel must pay a roughly $1.1 million arbitration award in a wage and benefit dispute with a hotel workers union, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
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April 30, 2026
A Washington hospital operator does not jointly employ doctors and other staff of a hospital services provider, the National Labor Relations Board said Thursday, reversing a regional official's ruling and calling into question a union's representation election win.
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April 30, 2026
A painting company that defeated litigation claiming it owed a union pension fund $427,000 can't make the fund cover its roughly $350,000 in legal fees, a New Jersey federal judge ruled, saying the company could only clinch fee coverage if the fund acted unreasonably, which it didn't.
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April 30, 2026
Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern on Thursday submitted a revised application to federal rail regulators for their proposed $85 billion mega-merger, touting the efficiencies and cost-savings of their combined coast-to-coast rail network, while also seeking to quell competition concerns.
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April 30, 2026
Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP announced Wednesday that an experienced attorney who formerly worked at the National Labor Relations Board has joined the firm's New York office as a partner from Paul Hastings LLP.
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April 30, 2026
Radiation therapists at a California medical center can't vote on representation by a Service Employees International Union local, a National Labor Relations Board official has ruled, finding the union fell short in showing the employees have enough in common with those in the union's existing bargaining unit.
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April 30, 2026
DirecTV pushed back against the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers' bid to dismiss its suit seeking to vacate an arbitration award over layoffs of union technicians, telling a Colorado federal court its claims are sufficiently detailed to proceed.
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April 29, 2026
A New York federal judge Wednesday refused to reconsider ordering Department of Government Efficiency agents to identify themselves in a lawsuit claiming DOGE unlawfully gained access to millions of federal employees' personal information, ruling that the government hasn't offered any new reason for her to rethink her opinion.
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April 29, 2026
The Trump administration tried to shield too many documents from public view in a lawsuit challenging its cuts to the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other agencies, a California federal judge ruled, siding with a labor-led coalition in a dispute over the administration's motion for a protective order.
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April 29, 2026
An Illinois paving and concrete contractor must arbitrate two grievances pursued by an International Union of Operating Engineers local, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, finding that the parties' collective bargaining contract requires the company to do so.
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April 29, 2026
An International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees local did not breach its duty of fair representation by removing a repeat offender from its hiring hall roster after he irked an employer during a "gratuitously obnoxious" clash with a manager, a National Labor Relations Board judge said.
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April 29, 2026
Two JetBlue Airways Corp. flight attendants said they are taking their proposed wage class action to the Second Circuit after a New York federal judge dismissed their suit.
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April 29, 2026
A baker at a military dining facility was suspended and fired after she asked for a union representative to be present during a confrontation with a supervisor over dirty ovens in the dining facility, National Labor Relations Board prosecutors argued in a posthearing brief.
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April 29, 2026
The U.S. Department of Labor received more than 16,000 comments on its proposed rule sorting out whether a worker is an employee or an independent contractor under federal law, with some, including a coalition of attorneys general, criticizing it and others lauding it.
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April 29, 2026
A prison guards union can continue fighting the Federal Bureau of Prisons' decision to shred its union contract in federal court, a Connecticut federal judge ruled, rejecting the agency's attempt to route the dispute to the Federal Labor Relations Authority.
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April 29, 2026
Labor protections must be at the forefront of any new federal laws that aim to rein in the explosion of artificial intelligence technology across the economy, according to a letter to Congress from the AFL-CIO and 39 other groups.
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April 28, 2026
Hartford HealthCare should be forced to produce 182 documents withheld under the attorney-client privilege from an antitrust lawsuit, say a Teamsters health plan and a transit district that claim the hospital group is exercising monopoly power over regional health services markets within Connecticut.