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MD bill aims to protect workers after Trump targeting of national labor board
Del. C.T. Wilson is sponsoring legislation to establish the Maryland Labor Relations Board should the national iteration become weakened or snuffed out.
Supreme Court seems likely to back Trump’s power to fire independent agency board members
The Trump administration's push to expand control over independent federal agencies comes before a sympathetic Supreme Court.
Supreme Court declines to reinstate independent agency board members fired by Trump
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority said President Donald Trump likely has the authority to fire independent agency board members.
Federal judge reinstates labor board member fired by Trump
A federal judge ruled that President Donald Trump acted illegally when he fired a member of an independent labor agency.
Disabled workers in Sinai Hospital program may unionize, 4th Circuit says
Participants in a program that provides employment for disabled janitors in Baltimore County may remain unionized and bargain collectively, a federal appeals court ruled.
College football players are employees, National Labor Relations Board memo asserts
College athletes who earn millions for their schools are employees, the National Labor Relations Board's top lawyer said in guidance released Wednesday.
Md. Legal Aid’s union files NLRB complaint over firings
Maryland Legal Aid’s employees’ union is urging the National Labor Relations Board to order four fired supervisory attorneys to be reinstated, saying they were illegally terminated for having raised concerns […]
Am Law 200 firm with NLRB practice hit with NLRB violations
Law firm Goldberg Segalla allegedly told its roughly 1,000 employees that they couldn’t share details of their salary with each other and had to settle claims with a federal agency, […]
Johns Hopkins nurses eye unionizing over staffing, benefits
Organizers say nurses at Johns Hopkins Hospital are overworked and underpaid compared with counterparts elsewhere and could form a union.
Frosh to Supreme Court: Arbitration does not trump workers’ right to collective action
Employers cannot compel employees to sign employment contracts binding them to arbitrate their disputes individually and waive their right to collective action, Maryland’s attorney general wrote in papers filed with […]
Union wins closely watched labor case over who’s the boss
More companies may be held responsible for labor-law violations committed by the contractors they hire under a decision by a politically split U.S. labor board in a closely watched case.
Northwestern football players cannot form union, NLRB rules
Northwestern University football players cannot form a union, the National Labor Relations Board ruled, overturning a March 2014 decision and ending the players’ bid to change the college sports landscape.
