McDonald’s Trump-era NLRB Settlement Faces D.C. Circuit Review

McDonald’s Corp. will try to convince a federal appeals court in Washington to reject a union’s bid to revive the massive unfair labor practice case against the fast-food giant that began during the Obama administration and settled in the Trump era.

Lawyers for both McDonald’s and the National Labor Relations Board will be on the same side as they defend the settlement against an attorney for the Service Employees International Union during oral arguments Friday at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The deal resolved claims that McDonald’s was jointly liable with its franchisees for ...