Labor-Management Relations

On June 9, 2026, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 230–193 to pass the Faster Labor Contracts Act (“FLCA”), a bipartisan bill that would fundamentally alter the process by which employers and newly certified unions negotiate first collective bargaining agreements (“CBAs”).

On May 28, 2026, the Supreme Court issued its latest ruling broadening the transportation worker exemption to the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA). In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court ruled that a transportation worker does not need to cross state lines, or interact with a vehicle that does, to be exempt from the FAA’s coverage. 

In its recent decision in Prime Communications, LP, the National Labor Relations Board (the “Board”) surprisingly reaffirmed a Biden-Board precedent.