The city of Austin and the Austin Firefighters Association are violating the Texas Constitution by paying firefighters while they’re conducting union activities, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday by conservative groups in Travis County. The suit, filed by the Austin-based Texas Public Policy Foundation and the Phoenix-based Goldwater Institute on behalf of Austin residents Mark Pulliam and …
Oregon credit union sues Noodles & Company over breach The credit union argued that Noodles & Company failed to implement or maintain adequate data security measures. Oregon credit union SELCO Community Credit Union accused Noodles & Company of failing to implement or maintain adequate data security measures for customer information despite highly publicized breaches at large national retailers …
The Texas Public Policy Foundation in conjunction with the Goldwater Institute filed a lawsuit against the City of Austin Wednesday, claiming the city’s collective bargaining agreement with the Austin Firefighters Association violates the Texas Constitution “gift clause” provision. The lawsuit comes at …
The start of a program to equip 100 Boston police officers with body cameras has been delayed so a judge can consider a request from the city’s largest police union to temporarily halt the program. An agreement with Boston’s largest police union to have 100 officers wear body cameras was praised as a step toward greater accountability. But by Thursday’s scheduled rollout, not a single …
Millville plans to end all-year brush collection in 2017. Brush will be collected for periods of two months around spring and around fall. A lack of workers is the reason, City Commissioner David Ennis says.
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by a Cleveland State University law professor and the former assistant dean of the school, who claimed former Dean Craig Boise retaliated against them because the faculty formed a union. Professor Sheldon Gelman and his wife, former assistant dean Jean Lifter, contended in the lawsuit in U.S. District Court that they lost income and …
Six months after the lopsided defeat of a union campaign at Portland Specialty Baking, a group of workers there have filed a lawsuit accusing the company of violating Oregon wage and hour and sick leave laws. Working with the non-profit Northwest Workers’ Justice Project, attorneys Corinna Spencer-Scheurich, Michael Dale, and Phil Goldsmith filed the suit Aug. 8 in Multnomah County …
The class-action lawsuit filed against Wendy’s over a data breach at more than 1,000 restaurants has attracted a crowd. More than 20 credit unions across the country, from Alaska to Florida, and a handful of credit union associations, including the Credit Union National Association, have joined as parties to the suit filed in Federal Court earlier this year by First Choice Federal Credit Union …
After investigating the closing of Climax Packaging in Lowville, the state Labor Department is suing the company. That’s according to the United Steelworkers Union. “They agreed with us.
Five Lyft drivers and the Teamsters union will object to a proposed class action settlement, saying it would shortchange drivers by keeping them as independent contractors instead of employees, a union spokesman said on Tuesday. Lyft and larger rival Uber face separate lawsuits brought on behalf of drivers who contend they are employees and entitled to reimbursement for expenses including gas …