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By:  Bryan Bienias

This week, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals joined the Sixth Circuit in deferring to the NLRB’s Specialty Healthcare standard for determining appropriate bargaining units in union representation cases. The decision is yet another victory for unions seeking to quickly organize relatively small units of employees.

The case, FedEx Freight v. NLRB…

By:  Kenneth R. Dolin, Esq.

The Board recently reversed a Regional Director and found that four disputed home-based delivery and install employees did not belong in the contractual unit at the employer’s Grand Rapids, Michigan facility.  It reasoned that the four disputed employees did not work at the Grand Rapids facility, were not covered…