A Hollywood talent agency that has lost 1,300 clients accuses the Writers Guild of America of organizing an unlawful boycott that stifles competition for new talent in TV and film, while also threatening its own members if they do not fire their talent agents.
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The D.C. Circuit on Friday revived a legal battle over the 2014 Office of Personnel Management data breach, which exposed sensitive information about more than 21 million people.
Read moreThe United Auto Workers argued Tuesday before the Sixth Circuit for the implementation of minimum health care premium payments by Honeywell International to a group of over 4,700 retirees who claim they were promised lifetime benefits.
Read moreA New Jersey appeals court on Tuesday restored many of the powers that Newark gave its newly created civilian police review board, reversing a judge who had defanged the board.
Read moreThe president of the pilots’ union at American Airlines says Boeing’s zeal to minimize pilot-training costs for airlines that would buy its 737 Max jet contributed to errors that led to two deadly crashes and left a “crisis of trust” in aviation safety.
Read moreOf the workers eligible to vote, 1,609 cast secret paper ballots that asked whether or not they wanted the United Auto Workers to represent them, according to a statement by VW. The results came down to a difference of 57 votes: 776 Volkswagen employees approved of the union but 833 did not.
Read moreFrom today through Friday, the 1,700 hourly workers who build Volkswagen Atlas SUVs at Chattanooga’s auto plant will vote on whether to unionize — a move opposed by the state’s Republican governor.
Read moreThe California Democratic Convention held in downtown San Francisco over the weekend demonstrated the state’s fiercely held progressive values throughout, but no more so on Sunday as Bernie Sanders was showered with boisterous cheers, whereas little known Rep. John Delaney from Maryland was all but booed off the stage as he presented himself as a moderate.
Read moreIn the afternoon session of the California Democratic Convention in San Francisco on Saturday, which featured many of the second-tier candidates outside of the top three in the race for the Democratic nomination for president, Cory Booker and Jay Inslee distinguished themselves from the pack.
Read moreKeeping the lights on at an agency that has patrolled the ports against mobsters and crooked union officials for half a century, a federal judge blocked New Jersey from unilaterally shutting down the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor.
Read moreFleshing out his 2020 campaign platform, former Vice President Joe Biden revealed Tuesday that his education goals will include federal support for low-income schools and higher salaries for public educators.
Read moreStriking a blow against a law described as a remnant of Jim Crow discrimination, a New York appellate court on Thursday overwhelmingly upheld the right of the state’s farmworkers to prevent wage theft and labor abuses by forming a union.
Read moreAmerican Airlines claims in a federal lawsuit that mechanics’ unions are illegally slowing down work to gain the upper hand in talks over a new collective bargaining agreement.
Read moreThe Iowa Supreme Court on Friday dismissed four lawsuits by state and local employee unions that argued the Iowa legislature violated their constitutional rights in a 2017 bill that substantially reduced their collective bargaining rights.
Read moreA Texas judge on Wednesday declared unconstitutional a voter-approved measure to raise Houston firefighters’ pay, potentially heading off mass layoffs the mayor said were necessary to fund the mandate.
Read moreBacking a union’s suit against Deutsche Bank, the European Court of Justice ruled Tuesday that all employers must be required to have a system for tracking the working hours of staff.
Read moreCalifornia Attorney General Xavier Becerra sued the Trump administration Monday over a federal rule that blocks more than half a million in-home health care workers in the Golden State from directly deducting union dues from their paychecks.
Read moreA strike by Uber and Lyft drivers in cities across the United States this week caused barely a ripple to passengers looking to catch a ride, highlighting the challenges in launching a labor movement from scratch in an industry that is by nature decentralized.
Read moreIn a split decision, a Ninth Circuit panel sided with agricultural labor unions Wednesday in a case that pitted private property rights against workers’ rights.
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