In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court on June 1 decided that a union’s deliberate destruction of company property as a pressure tactic in a labor dispute is not protected by federal law. Labor activists have said that endangering and destroying company property during a dispute is fair game that has long been protected…

On Aug. 18, a federal district judge ordered Starbucks to reinstate seven workers who were fired for organizing a union drive at a store in Memphis, Tennessee. U.S. District Court Judge Sheryl H. Lipman ruled that the coffee company failed to prove that it consistently enforced similar company policies at other locations under similar circumstances….

The U.S. National Labor Relations Board said Wednesday that Amazon.com Inc. and a group of New York workers have agreed tentatively on terms for a union election, and an organizer said the vote would take place late next month. The agreement lays out the election’s timing and how to vote, the NLRB said, without providing…

When President Joe Biden fired then-National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Peter Robb within minutes of taking the oath of office on Jan. 20, career staffers cheered, according to internal emails obtained by the National Right to Work Foundation. Biden’s demand that Robb resign his post by the end of the official business day was…

National Right to Work Foundation (NRTWF) officials are demanding copies of all documents relating to President Joe Biden’s unprecedented firing of the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) two top lawyers. The lawyers were NLRB General Counsel Peter Robb and his deputy, Alice Stock, who briefly replaced her former boss. They were both subsequently replaced on…

National Right to Work Foundation (NRTWF) officials are demanding copies of all documents related to President Joe Biden’s unprecedented firing of the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) two top lawyers. The lawyers were NLRB General Counsel Peter Robb and his deputy, Alice Stock, who briefly replaced her former boss; they were both subsequently replaced on…

A federal appeals court rejected a healthcare union’s request that the judges reconsider their decision upholding the right of nurses to not be required to fund the labor group’s political lobbying. The United Nurses and Allied Professionals (UNAP) union had asked the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the First Circuit to reconsider its September…

Four House Republicans want to see all official documents from President Joe Biden’s White House and one of his cabinet-level transition teams on the firing of the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) two top lawyers. Biden fired NLRB General Counsel Peter Robb near the end of his first day in the Oval Office, then fired…

Four House Republicans want to see all official documents from President Joe Biden’s White House and one of his Cabinet-level transition teams related to the firing of the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) two top lawyers. Biden fired NLRB general counsel Peter Robb near the end of the president’s first day in the Oval Office,…

Washington Democrats and their traditional labor union allies are cheering President Joe Biden’s firing of the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) General Counsel even though Peter Robb’s four-year term had nine months left. House Education and Labor Committee Chairman Bobby Scott praised Biden, saying in a statement issued Wednesday shortly after Robb declined a request…