DOL Defends Dismissal of UAW Member's Election Gripes
The U.S. Department of Labor told a Michigan federal court that an erstwhile candidate for United Auto Workers leadership failed to establish that its dismissal of his allegations of union election misconduct ... (more story)
NLRB Upholds Official's Toss of Starbucks Decertification Bid
A National Labor Relations Board official was right to rule that an attempt to oust Workers United from a Manhattan Starbucks cannot progress while the store's managers stand accused of refusing to bargain wit... (more story)
9th Circ. Strikes Down Harbor Towing Co.'s Arbitration Appeal
The Ninth Circuit has upheld a lower court's decision denying a harbor towing company's bid to arbitrate a deck engineer's wage-and-hour suit, finding there to be no valid arbitration agreement covering the en... (more story)
Longshore Union Refused To Hire Critic, NLRB Judge Says
A longshore union local illegally punished a dissident member of another unit by repeatedly blocking him from getting work at its hiring hall after he alerted a higher-up to his concerns with its work assignme... (more story)
Trader Joe's Union Demands To Bargain Over Smiling Rule
A union representing Trader Joe's workers demanded that the company bargain at a scheduled negotiation on Tuesday over a policy that requires employees to always smile while on work premises, a practice the un... (more story)
Union Was Absent From Buffalo Starbucks, Barista Says
A Starbucks barista asked the National Labor Relations Board to decertify the union at her Buffalo, New York, store not because of the company's resistance to unionization, but because Workers United represent... (more story)
NLRB Judge Dings Ky. Public Defender For Failure To Bargain
A Kentucky public defender's office violated federal labor law by refusing to bargain with an International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers local over a move to outsource the legal representation of psychiat... (more story)