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: Ron Kramer, Kristin Michaels, Mary Klimesh & Anne Harris
Earlier today the Regional Director (“RD”) for Region 13 of the NLRB found that Northwestern University’s scholarship football players are employees under the NLRA and thus have the right to unionize. As a result, the RD directed that an election be held to…
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: Bradford L. Livingston, Esq.
As I’ve commented on before in this blog, the hurdles unions face in organizing employees are demonstrated by decades of steadily-declining private sector unionization rates. Traditional union organizing campaigns – where organizers try to convince employees to sign enough authorization cards to obtain an National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)…
By David L. Streck.
In G4S Regulated Security Solution 358 NLRB 160 (September 29, 2012), the NLRB recently raised the bar that employers must meet in order to establish that individuals are supervisors under Section 2(11) of the NLRA. That case involved an employer guard service that provided security at a nuclear power…
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…
As union organizing is increasingly a top priority in big labor’s agenda, they are pushing to include in collective bargaining agreements provisions that make it easier for labor to organize newly opened businesses, affiliates, joint ventures and even suppliers. The language of such contractual provisions are often drafted in such a…
