By: Anne D. Harris. Esq.
We recently blogged here about a group of Northwestern University football players who filed a petition for union representation.
On February 12, 2014, the Board held a hearing on the football players’ petition. Represented by the College Athletes Players Association (“CAPA”), the football players and Northwestern counsel each provided…
By: Ronald J. Kramer, Esq & Annette E. Kim
The kids may be waiting for Santa, and everyone is waiting for Noel Canning, but the wait is over, more or less, for indications as when the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and the Department of Labor (DOL) may move on proposed “ambush election”…
By: Ashley Kircher Laken, Esq.
On October 22, an NLRB administrative law judge found that an employer violated the National Labor Relations Act when it refused to bargain with a union that had been certified by the Board unless the union agreed that any deal would be voided if the U.S. Supreme Court upholds…
By: Ashley S. Kircher, Esq.
Recently, an Administrative Law Judge of the NLRB ruled that an employer’s failure to respond immediately to a racial slur by one employee toward another employee who had voiced union support at a pre-election meeting was not enough to overturn the results of the election in the employer’s favor. …
By: Anne D. Harris, Esq.
On July 2, 2013, a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit vacated an NLRB ruling and found that registered nurses employed by a nursing home were supervisors under the National Labor Relations Act.
The dispute arose in 2011 when the International Association of…
By: Bryan Bienias, Esq.
After seven long years of litigation, the D.C. Circuit last Tuesday unanimously held that auto part manufacturer Tenneco Automotive Inc. (“Tenneco”) lawfully ceased to recognize Local 660 of the United Auto Workers union (“Local 660” or “Union”) after the Union’s sixty-one years as the bargaining representative of employees at one…
By Bryan R. Bienias, Esq.
Several of the country’s largest business groups have joined forces to stop the proliferation of “micro-units” in the retail industry. Last week, the National Labor Relations Board granted the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers, the International Federation of Independent Businesses, and various other groups permission…
In NLRB v. Arkema, Inc., the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals recently dealt the Board a setback, finding that the employer (Arkema) did not violate the National Labor Relations Act when it disciplined a union-supporter for threatening another employee before an election and when it distributed an anti-harassment reminder to…
By Jack Toner
As we advised in an earlier posting on May 14, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that the NLRB’s so called “Ambush Election” rule was invalid because it was not adopted by a proper quorum of the NLRB Members –a quorum requires three Members. At the time…
By: Kenneth R. Dolin
The Employee Free Choice Act is dead and the “streamlined” election and posting rules that the NLRB attempted to enact are in limbo, but the current Board has “swung the legal pendulum” toward labor unions in the following areas:
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