By: Tiffany T. Tran, Esq. and Timothy M. Hoppe, Esq
Seyfarth Synopsis: On Friday, December 1, 2017, newly appointed NLRB General Counsel Peter Robb issued a memorandum containing a broad overview of his initial agenda as General Counsel. It previews many anticipated developments during the Trump Administration. Our blog is exploring a different…
Seyfarth Synopsis: On Friday, December 1, 2017, newly appointed NLRB General Counsel Peter Robb issued a memo containing a broad overview of his initial agenda as General Counsel. It previews many anticipated developments during the Trump Administration. Our blog is exploring a different aspect of the memo each day during…
By: Ronald J. Kramer, Esq.
Seyfarth Synopsis: In Weavexx, LLC the Board deferred to an arbitrator’s finding that the employer had the right to change its payday and pay cycle without first bargaining. The bigger question is how much longer will such charges be deferred pending arbitration, and the extent to which the Board…
Seyfarth Synopsis: The NLRB’s General Counsel seeks to impede an employer’s ability to extract a union that lacks the support of a majority of bargaining unit members by requiring in all cases a decertification election prior to withdrawal of recognition absent union agreement.
NLRB General Counsel Richard Griffin wants the…
By: Kenneth R. Dolin, Esq. & David L. Streck, Esq.
Here we go again. The National Labor Relations Board (“Board” or “NLRB”) has adopted its expedited election rules that have been previously proposed twice and approved in part once, only to be ruled invalid by the United States District Court for the District…
By: Marshall B. Babson, Esq.
In perhaps the most important constitutional case involving the NLRB since the constitutionality of the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA” or “Act”) was decided 76 years ago in Jones & Laughlin v. NLRB, the Supreme Court this morning heard argument in NLRB v. Noel Canning. On its…
By: Michele Haydel Gehrke, Esq.
On October 29, 2013, the Senate voted 55-44 to confirm Richard Griffin as General Counsel to the National Labor Relations Board. The Senate vote was mostly along party lines, with only Republican Lisa Murkowski (R- Alaska) voting with her Democratic colleagues for confirmation. Griffin replaces Acting General Counsel Lafe…
By: Michele Haydel Gehrke, Esq.
On August 29, 2013, well-respected NLRB Administrative Law Judge William Kocol issued a decision (here) blasting the NLRB and its General Counsel for lacking “intellectual integrity” in how they refused to properly defer and later dismiss a case under Collyer Insulated Wire, 192 NLRB 837 (1971). See…
By: Bryan Bienias, Esq.
After months of partisan political jujitsu, the U.S. Senate last week confirmed all five of President Obama’s nominations to the National Labor Relations Board. The three Democratic and two Republican members include Chairman Mark Gaston Pearce (D), Kent Hirozawa (D), Nancy Schiffer (D), Harry I. Johnson, III (R), and Philip…
In what may be the first of many judicial setbacks for the National Labor Relations Board, on March 2, 2012, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Judge Amy Berman Jackson, an Obama nominee, struck down a significant aspect of the Board’s 2011 rulemaking. It is no secret…
