According to U.S. News & World Report, in 1758 George Washington was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses after he plied voters with beer, whiskey, rum punch, and wine. He did so after a landslide loss three years...more
In Teamsters Local Union 987 of Alberta v Purolator Inc., 2024 CanLII 21937 (CA LA), an arbitrator dealt with a clash between the amount of leave days under a unionized employer’s collective agreements (CA) and the leave...more
In a classic man-bites-dog turnaround, a federal appeals court ordered a Teamsters pension fund to return approximately $2 million in withdrawal liability payments to an employer that had stopped contributing in 2005. The...more
As March Madness gets underway, a California federal judge has called a flagrant foul and ejected the trucking industry from its ongoing battle to challenge Assembly Bill No. 5 (“AB5”)....more
Please join Akerman's Cannabis and Traditional Labor Law Practices for a webinar titled "The Highs and Lows of Unions in Cannabis. Presented with the International Cannabis Bar Association (INCBA) and Cannabis Lab -...more
In Stericycle, Inc. vs. Teamsters Local 628 (August 2, 2023), the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) adopted a new and more stringent legal standard for determining whether a work rule is overly restrictive, finding that...more
The National Labor Relations Board has issued a groundbreaking decision that jettisons 50 years of established law to provide unions a more favorable framework to organize nonunion companies. On the heels of new rules...more
The answer to that question is “lots” and it is much more than the fact UPS agreed to put air conditioning into all their new brown trucks which will undoubtedly generate higher revenue for the manufacturer. Last week the...more
The Supreme Court came down hard on unions last month when it held that a company may bring state law tort claims against a union for property damage caused during a strike. The Court held that the federal law governing labor...more
Settlement Resolves Federal Agency’s Lawsuit Alleging Union’s Former Business Agent Sexually Harassed UPS Manager - BOULDER, Colo. – Teamsters Local Union # 455, a labor union with locations in Denver and Fort Morgan,...more
In honor of the 2023 MLB All-Star game, Seward and Kissel presents the first ever Howey All-Star Team. The lineup below imagines the seminal federal cases interpreting the meaning of the term “investment contract” in U.S....more
In Glacier Northwest v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local No. 174, the U.S. Supreme Court held—in a near-unanimous opinion earlier this month—that the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) did not preempt a company’s...more
New York statutes classify certain civil service positions as exempt where such positions are confidential in nature and require personal qualities that cannot practicably be tested by an examination. These positions are...more
Management-side attorneys and the businesses that they represent will be pleased with the Supreme Court’s holding in Glacier Northwest, Inc. v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters....more
On June 1, 2023, the United States Supreme Court held that a company could sue a union over intentional damage caused during a labor dispute. In Glacier Northwest v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters Loc. Union No. 174,...more
In a strikeout for organized labor, the United States Supreme Court recently held that an employer may pursue a lawsuit based on damage caused to its property by a strike. Glacier Northwest, Inc., a company which...more
In a recent 8-1 decision, the US Supreme Court held that the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA or the Act) does not preempt state claims against unions for intentional property damage during a strike. The decision reaffirms...more
On June 1, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered an 8-1 opinion that limits the protections available to unions for damages caused during a strike. In Glacier Northwest v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local Union...more
On June 1, 2023, in Glacier Northwest v. Teamsters, the United States Supreme Court ruled for the employer in a case with significant implications for the right of unions to strike and the right of employers to respond to...more
Can a union be sued by management for destroying company property during a strike? On June 1, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court answered the question in the affirmative....more
In Glacier Northwest, Inc. v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 174, No. 21-1449 (sl. op.), the U.S. Supreme Court revisited Garmon preemption. The Court reviewed the Washington state Supreme Court's dismissal of a...more
On June 1, 2023, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) does not preempt an employer’s state court tort claims alleging a union intentionally destroyed the employer’s...more
On January 10, 2023, justices for the Supreme Court of the United States questioned attorneys for a ready-mix concrete company and the union representing its truck drivers over whether claims to recover the value of the...more
Christmas came early this year for the beleaguered Teamsters Central States Pension Fund and its over 350,000 participants – but employers may soon realize they just received a lump of coal in their stockings. On December 8,...more
Early this morning the White House announced that $36 billion was being allocated from the American Rescue Plan (i.e., the 2021 Coronavirus relief package) to shore up the Teamster’s Central States Pension Plan....more