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An NLRB Region 5 decision dismissed a decertification petition targeting security officers at a Maryland federal facility after finding the named employer had not yet hired any employees in the unit.
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An NLRB regional director dismissed a union representation petition after finding the employer would cease operations within days, raising unresolved questions about employee rights under the incoming contractor.
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A DOL report to Congress documents a decade of employee ownership growth—ESOP participants up 8%, worker co-ops more than doubled—while noting that the agency's promotion initiative operates without congressional appropriations.
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An NLRB judge ruled Satellite Healthcare violated federal labor law by withholding 2024 merit raises from 11 unionized Bay Area clinics while paying them to non-union staff—and blaming the union for the freeze.
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An NLRB judge ruled that X Factor S2 LLC illegally fired four crew members who tried to "flip" their non-union TV production to IATSE representation, finding the executive producer's own texts and statements as evidence.
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An NLRB regional director rejected Touchstone Climbing's bid to force a company-wide ballot, ordering separate elections for its Bay Area maintenance and routesetting employees on February 25, 2026.
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A federal labor judge found Ascension Providence Rochester Hospital committed 10 violations of the National Labor Relations Act during a contract dispute with the union representing its nurses and radiology technologists.
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The U.S. Department of Labor announced a fraud investigation into California's UI program, citing rising improper payment rates, data quality deficiencies, and a $21 billion federal loan balance burdening state employers.
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Six months after a fatal explosion at a century-old Pennsylvania steel plant killed two workers and injured twelve, federal regulators have issued citations and fines totaling nearly $180,000 against U.S. Steel
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An NLRB administrative law judge ruled that B.N.F. Painting, LLC violated federal labor law by firing a painter for discussing wages and maintaining overbroad handbook rules that chilled employees' Section 7 rights.
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An Alabama contractor faces over $257,000 in federal fines after two workers died from sewage gas exposure inside a manhole in Mobile — a preventable tragedy investigators traced directly to the absence of required confined space safety programs.
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The U.S. Department of Labor is offering $65 million in grants to community colleges to build the short-term training infrastructure needed to qualify for — and take full advantage of — newly enacted Workforce Pell Grants.