Handing a loss to the United Auto Workers, the Sixth Circuit on Friday upheld a Michigan judge’s decision that over 4,700 retired Honeywell International employees are not entitled to lifetime health benefits from the company.
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Alaska’s largest public-employee union sued the state Tuesday, claiming it is not doing enough to provide a safe workplace for employees or allowing for remote-work options in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Read moreThe Providence Kodiak Island Medical Center seeks a federal injunction to prevent Teamsters Local 959 dba Alaska Medical Employees Association from striking during the coronavirus epidemic.
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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire accused Amazon on Thursday of placing “unacceptable” pressure on employees after unions said the retailer will not pay staff who refuse to go in to work fearing coronavirus contagion.
Read moreA Pennsylvania appeals court ruled that a trial court improperly denied Philadelphia electrical union leader John J. “Johnny Doc” Dougherty’s motion to stay a civil action brought by an electric contractor who alleges Dougherty engaged in battery, intentional interference with contractual relations and civil conspiracy while attempting to persuade him to join the union.
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By a close vote, with some 500 union members not participating, NFL players approved a new labor agreement with the league. It features a 17-game regular season, higher salaries, increased roster sizes and larger pensions for current and former players.
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Striking St. Paul teachers are going back to work after union leaders reached a tentative agreement Friday with district administrators, citing the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak as a factor in the decision to settle their contract dispute.
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A federal judge in Detroit unsealed an indictment Thursday charging the former president of the powerful United Auto Workers union with fraudulently embezzling union money to pay for liquor, golf, cigars and private villas.
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The First Circuit appeared highly conflicted Wednesday as to whether private-sector unions can ever force members to subsidize lobbying.
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Days before California voters head to the polls on Super Tuesday, officials in Santa Clara County sued an employee union to block its members – 1,700 of which work at the county registrar of voters office – from going on strike.
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A Houston teachers union, making claims of racial discrimination, asked a federal judge Tuesday to block the Texas Education Agency from replacing their school district’s elected board of trustees with a handpicked board of managers.
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An investigation into legendary singer Plácido Domingo by the U.S. union representing opera performers found more than two dozen people who said they were sexually harassed or witnessed inappropriate behavior by the superstar when he held senior management positions at Washington National Opera and Los Angeles Opera, according to people familiar with the findings.
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Haitian police officers exchanged gunfire for hours Sunday with soldiers of the newly reconstituted army outside the national palace, in a dangerous escalation of protests over police pay and working conditions.
Read moreUnion Pacific Railroad and Chicago union workers sued each other on Friday over the implementation of a new attendance policy and the prospect of a strike.
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Dollar General failed to show an employee who it claims threatened fellow co-workers leading up to a union ratification vote was acting as an agent of the union, the Eighth Circuit ruled Thursday.
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A federal judge signaled Wednesday he will likely overturn a Trump administration rule that blocks states from directly deducting union dues from hundreds of thousands of in-home health care workers’ paychecks.
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The nation’s two largest teacher unions want schools to revise or eliminate active shooter drills, saying Tuesday that they can harm students’ mental health and that there are better ways to prepare for the possibility of a school shooting.
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A former senior official at the United Auto Workers pleaded guilty Friday to a broad corruption scheme, admitting that he conspired with others to conceal the use of union cash for vacation villas, golf, cigars and booze.
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A judge blocked a landmark California labor law Friday that bars mandatory arbitration agreements, delivering a win for the Chamber of Commerce which argued the bill outlawed a popular employment practice and violated federal law.
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American Airlines pilots’ union sued the airline Thursday, demanding a halt to all its flights to China amid fears of spreading the Wuhan coronavirus.
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