By: Jeffrey A. Berman, Esq.
On December 19, 2014, the Board released Pacific Lutheran University, 361 NLRB No. 157 (2014) (Pacific Lutheran Board Decision), a decision that will have significant impact on two key issues: (i) when the Board can assert jurisdiction over religious schools; and (ii) the analysis to be applied…
By: Ronald J. Kramer, Esq.
It is black letter law that states can prohibit contracts from requiring bargaining unit members to pay money to unions, right? Maybe not, at least according to the Chief Judge of the Seventh Circuit. On September 2, 2014, the Seventh Circuit upheld Indiana’s Right to Work Act in a…
By: Ashley Kircher
On Tuesday, an NLRB administrative law judge ruled that two provisions in an employment agreement signed by all of Quicken Loans, Inc.’s mortgage bankers violated Section 8(a)(1) of the National Labor Relations Act. See Quicken Loans, Inc., Case No. 28-CA-75857. ALJ Joel Biblowitz found that the provisions, which were meant to…
California has enacted special labor laws that make it nearly impossible for employers to obtain injunctions against union trespass. This content-based favoritism for one form of speech raises constitutional questions, as federal courts have recognized. On December 27, 2012, however, in Ralphs Grocery Co. v. United Food & Commercial Workers Union …
Not to put it too indelicately, but has the NLRB made a fetish of the Section 7 right to engage in “concerted activities . . . for mutual aid or protection” — in the sense of rendering it excessive attention, even reverence? One can easily conclude from its recent decisions…
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday invited the Solicitor General to file an amicus brief expressing the government’s views on whether a state can compel personal care workers to pay fair share fees to a union for representing their interests before state agencies. The Seventh Circuit recently answered this question in…
By: Ronald J. Kramer
On June 21, 2012, in Knox et al. v. Service Employees International Union, Local 1000, the Supreme Court issued a landmark, 5-2-2 decision which held that a union that imposes a special fee or other dues increase mid-year to meet expenses that were not earlier disclosed when the regular dues rates…
Earlier today, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that the so-called “Ambush Election” rule promulgated by the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) is invalid. (For reference, see our prior blog post on the “Ambush Election” rule here for additional detail on the rule.)
The Chamber of…
