In the aftermath of a landmark Supreme Court decision barring employee unions from extracting mandatory fees from workers who do not want to contribute, two government employees sued their union to get back the money they were forced to pay.
Read more(CN) – In a huge blow to organized labor, a divided Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that government-employee unions cannot force
Read moreHousekeepers, bartenders and other unionized workers at Las Vegas casino-resorts operated by Caesars Entertainment approved a new five-year contract, ending the possibility of a strike at those properties.
Read moreA national training program for the United Auto Workers filed a lawsuit against former Fiat Chrysler officials, seeking to recover more than $4 million that it says they stole.
Read moreLos Angeles Times managers have accused the newsroom’s union of not bargaining in “good faith” over contract negotiations and for withholding data used to compile a report revealing a pay gap at the newspaper for women and journalists of color.
Read moreThe largest federal employee union claims in court that President Donald Trump is unlawfully restricting the amount of time government workers can devote to union activity.
Read moreThe largest tree fruit grower in California won a legal victory Wednesday, when an appellate court ruled an agricultural labor board inappropriately set aside a crucial vote regarding union representation.
Read moreA former Service Employees International Union executive filed a $2 million defamation lawsuit claiming he was fired amid a widely reported harassment investigation even though his employee file shows that no female staffers ever accused him of misconduct.
Read moreInsisting that he has nothing to do with the $111-an-hour pay rate that New York City’s “sandhogs” earn for digging subway tunnels, Gary LaBarbera brought a defamation suit Wednesday against The Center for Union Facts.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit on Friday revived the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s challenge to Seattle’s ordinance allowing app-based drivers like Uber and Lyft to unionize, finding the law could violate federal antitrust rules.
Read moreThe California Public Employment Relations Board seeks an injunction against “essential employees” at five University of California hospitals who are threatening a three-day strike and two-day sympathy strike to support custodial workers, who rejected a 3 percent pay raise.
Read moreOrganizers of a statewide walkout told Arizona teachers to return to classrooms Thursday if the Legislature, as expected, passes a proposed budget that will grant teachers a 20 percent raise by 2020.
Read moreGerman labor union ver.di says its members will stage a strike Tuesday at Frankfurt airport, Germany’s biggest. The move prompted Lufthansa to cancel more than 800 flights.
Read moreAt a Tuesday hearing, the Seventh Circuit seemed unmoved by a conservative challenge to labor laws in Illinois, one of the last union-friendly states in the Rust Belt, in a lawsuit seeking to legalize local right-to-work ordinances.
Read moreAfter an upstate New York steel plant violated labor laws by discouraging unionization, federal authorities went too far in trying to remedy the violations with a bargaining order, the Second Circuit ruled Thursday.
Read moreNew York City’s largest police union filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking to block expanded sexual-misconduct oversight from the city’s independent civilian review board.
Read moreThe Colorado State Supreme Court overturned an appeal Monday, upholding state law that supports sending teachers on unpaid leave without a hearing.
Read moreThe West Virginia statewide teacher strike continued into its eighth day Monday at the state capitol. The crowd of teachers, mostly women, wore red bandannas in commemoration of the Battle of Blair Mountain and grew to such a large size that they had to shut the capitol down temporarily.
Read moreWest Virginia public schools remained closed for a seventh straight class day Friday as teachers continued to fight for pay raises.
Read moreHis deciding vote is expected to deal a blow to public unions, but Justice Neil Gorsuch remained silent Monday as familiar idealogical lines divided the Supreme Court at oral arguments over union nonmembers paying fees.
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