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🗞️ Trimming the Line: NLRB Rules Cannabis Post-Harvest Workers Can Unionize

The NLRB ruled that BeLeaf Medical's post-harvest cannabis workers are statutory employees, not exempt agricultural laborers, clearing the way for unionization under federal law.

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🗞️ Shell Game at the La Quinta: How a New Jersey Hotel Tried to Swap Out Its Union Obligations

The NLRB found a Fairfield, NJ hotel operator created a shell company to escape union contracts, ordering reinstatement of five fired workers and restoration of bargaining rights.

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🗞️ A Text Message About Layoffs Cost This Employee His Job. A Labor Board Judge Just Ruled That Was Illegal.

An NLRB judge ruled Solera Holdings illegally fired an employee for texting coworkers about possible layoffs and maintained seven unlawfully overbroad workplace policies that chilled workers' federal labor rights.

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🗞️ Safety Complaints Led to Firing, Labor Judge Rules in Washington State Case

An NLRB administrative law judge found that a Washington state electrical contractor unlawfully discharged a union electrician for raising repeated jobsite safety concerns, recommending reinstatement and full back pay.

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🗞️ Fired for Doing the Job Right: Pipeline Inspector Vindicated After Safety Whistleblower Retaliation

A New Mexico pipeline inspection firm fired a worker who halted a non-compliant Oklahoma gas pipeline job. OSHA ruled it illegal retaliation and ordered reinstatement and $35,000+ in back pay and damages.

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🗞️ Upstart Union Wins the Right to Challenge Steelworkers at Pennsylvania Water Utility

A newly formed independent union won the right to challenge the United Steelworkers for representation of Pittsburgh-area Pennsylvania American Water employees after an NLRB regional director ruled the upstart group qualifies as a lawful labor organization.

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🗞️ Tipped, Taxed, and Shortchanged: Oregon Restaurant Hit with $200K Wage Penalty

A McMinnville, OR restaurant owed 19 workers $200K in back wages after federal investigators found it misclassified employees to avoid overtime and illegally skimmed from tip pools.

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🗞️ Scare Tactics and Massage Chairs: How an LA Metro Contractor Botched Its Union Fight

An NLRB judge voided a 2023 union election at LA Metro contractor Strive Well-Being, finding managers illegally threatened job loss, promised perks, and forced employees to publicly reveal their union loyalties.

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🗞️ A Florida Stone Company Fired a Worker for Talking to a Union. A Federal Judge Says That Was Illegal.

A federal labor judge ruled that RJ Staab Stone Company illegally fired, shorted, and delayed wages for an employee who raised pay complaints and helped organize a union, ordering reinstatement and full back pay.

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🗞️ Who's the Boss? Labor Department Moves to Settle a Long-Running Question About Shared Workers

The DOL proposed a rule on April 22, 2026 to establish a single national standard for determining joint employer status under federal wage and hour laws, aiming to reduce legal inconsistency and compliance confusion.

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🗞️ Still Waiting to Be Paid: 200+ Puerto Rico Officers Are Owed Decade-Old Back Wages

The U.S. DOL is searching for 204 current or former Puerto Rico Police Department officers owed $128,704 in back wages stemming from a 2016 federal court order over FLSA overtime violations from 2010–2014.

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🗞️ You Can't Fire Someone for Talking About Their Tips: The John Wright Restaurant Case

An NLRB judge ruled a Pennsylvania restaurant illegally fired a server for discussing wages and tips, ordering reinstatement, backpay, and rescission of its no-wage-discussion policy. Decision issued April 21, 2026.