National Labor Relations Board

The Federal Trade Commission plans on getting involved in questions of independent contractor status.

A vote to be represented by the Teamsters at an STG facility in California has taken place but the ballots have been impounded.

A regional NLRB decision says an STG unit in California that had been owned by XPO treated workers like employees, and it has ordered a unionization vote for them.

The National Labor Relations Board and Department of Labor are working to change labor laws enacted under the Trump administration to be more favorable to employees.

David Weil would have a key role in determining the federal definition of an independent contractor.

An NLRB judge appears mostly critical of the trucking company’s behavior but ruled in its favor on the key legal question.

TForce Freight has rolled back the speed reductions for some trucks based in Houston after drivers complained about running out of hours.

“By investing more than $2 billion in port infrastructure in recent years, we have the capacity to handle the influx of imports we are seeing today,” says SCPA CEO Jim Newsome.

The Teamsters allege that TFI’s TForce Freight broke federal law when it reduced the speed limit of its trucks from 68 to 65 mph.

A National Labor Relations Board judge ruled the International Longshoremen’s Association cannot force the use of union labor at the Port of Charleston’s new Leatherman Terminal.