By Christian J. Rowley, Esq.

On May 7, 2013, in yet another significant legal setback for the National Labor Relations Board (“Board”), a unanimous panel of  the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (“D.C. Circuit”) invalidated the Board’s 2011 rule (“Rule”) mandating that all employers subject to the National

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