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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.

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🗞️ Know Before You Build: Labor Department Opens Free Prevailing Wage Training for Federal Contractors

The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division announced free virtual seminars on prevailing wage compliance for federal contractors, scheduled for May 20-21 and September 23-24, 2026.

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🗞️ Beto's Tab Came Due: Austin Restaurant Owes Workers $64K in Stolen Wages

The U.S. Dept. of Labor recovered nearly $64K for 8 Austin restaurant workers after Beto's Restaurant and Bar failed to pay overtime and illegally docked wages from tipped employees.

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🗞️ A Federal Judge Finds ASARCO Broke Labor Law, but Hands Unions a Partial Defeat

An NLRB administrative law judge ruled that ASARCO LLC committed multiple post-strike labor violations but found the 2019 walkout was an economic strike, not one caused by the company's misconduct, limiting the remedies available to hundreds of workers.