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🗞️ NLRB Clears Babson College Police Sergeants to Join Union Election
A federal labor official ruled Babson College failed to prove its campus police sergeants are supervisors, clearing the way for an Aug. 26 union election.
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🗞️ Labor Board Rejects Covenant House New York's 'Manager' Defense in Long-Running Union Standoff
The National Labor Relations Board ruled Aug. 5 that Covenant House New York broke federal labor law by refusing to bargain in good faith with 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, rejecting the nonprofit's argument that two staffers on the union's bargaining committee were exempt "managers."
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🗞️ NLRB Board Reverses Judge, Clears Starbucks in Barista Shift-Borrowing Case
A divided National Labor Relations Board dismissed a complaint that Starbucks illegally threatened a Seattle barista after her store unionized, overturning a 2023 judge's ruling that the manager's hedged comments amounted to a coercive threat.
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🗞️ NLRB Orders CVS Pharmacy to Bargain With Unionized Rhode Island Pharmacists
The National Labor Relations Board ruled Aug. 5 that Rhode Island CVS Pharmacy LLC unlawfully refused to bargain with pharmacists at three stores who unionized with the Pharmacy Guild, ordering the company to negotiate as contract talks elsewhere edge toward a strike.
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🗞️ NLRB Finds TV Producer Unlawfully Purged Union-Organizing Crew From 'Beyond Belief' Set
The National Labor Relations Board ruled that X Factor S2 LLC unlawfully fired four IATSE-affiliated grip and electrical crew members from a 2023 California shoot, a day after they moved to unionize the production.
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🗞️ Blank Contract Dates Reopen Bid to Decertify St. Louis Nurses Union
A divided NLRB ruled that unfilled effective and expiration dates in a newly ratified labor contract stripped it of its usual power to block elections, reviving a nurse's 2024 petition to decertify her union at SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital.
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🗞️ NLRB Orders Union Vote for Two More Job Classes at Sutter's Alameda Hospice
A federal labor board has ordered an election on whether two unrepresented job classifications at a Sutter Health hospice in Alameda, California, can join an existing union, part of a yearslong organizing drive at the health system.
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🗞️ Georgia Urgent Care Chain Ordered to Repay $113,000 After Shorting Workers on Overtime
The U.S. Department of Labor recovered $113,199 in back wages for workers at a Georgia urgent care operator after finding it shorted overtime pay for mandatory training and suspended an employee who asked about it.
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🗞️ San Antonio Bakery Chain Fined After Federal Investigators Find Child Labor and Wage Violations
Federal investigators found a San Antonio bakery chain employed a 13 year old and let a 15 year old work overnight, violating child labor law. The company paid $45,000 in penalties and back wages.
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🗞️ Washington Sends Florida $5.6 Million to Retrain Workers Left Behind by Spirit's Collapse
The Labor Department has awarded $5.6 million to Florida to retrain thousands of workers displaced by Spirit Airlines' abrupt May shutdown, as the carrier's bankruptcy liquidation continues to ripple through the state's aviation economy.
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🗞️ Board Rules Whole Foods Had the Right to Ban BLM Masks at Work
The NLRB ruled Whole Foods did not break federal labor law by barring employees from wearing Black Lives Matter messaging on the job, finding the display was not tied closely enough to workplace conditions to earn legal protection.
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🗞️ Labor Board Rules Against Shuttered Buffalo Area Nursing Home Operator After Missed Deadline
The NLRB entered default judgment against Menorah Campus, operator of the closed Weinberg Campus nursing home near Buffalo, after it missed contract obligations and failed to answer the labor complaint on time.