Ninth Circuit to Rehear Case on NLRB Ruling in Union Port Feud

The National Labor Relations Board will get a second shot at convincing a federal appeals court to enforce its ruling that blocked the International Longshore and Warehouse Union from pursuing maintenance and repair work at the Port of Seattle.

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit granted Tuesday the NLRB’s request to reconsider its 2023 decision on a jurisdictional dispute between ILWU and the International Association of Machinists.

Full Ninth Circuit review of the case gives it a chance to change its precedent on unions’ work-preservation defenses from its 2020 ruling in ILWU v. NLRB (Kinder Morgan). ...