Unions

Union 2025 Outlook
March 23, 2025
A more employer-friendly NLRB does not portend a decline in union organizing success, positive public perception or bargaining table leverage.
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The NLRB Overturns Decades-Old Precedent by Banning Captive-Audience Meetings
November 24, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board made the inevitable official when it recently held that employee attendance at employer-mandated meetings where employers express their views on potential unionization – violate the National Labor Relations Act.
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NLRB Finds Captive Audience Meetings Illegal
November 13, 2024
Relying on Babcock & Wilcox Co., 77 NLRB 577 (1948), employers have long been using so called “captive audience meetings” to express their view to employees regarding unionization.
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No, You Can’t Fire Employees for Threatening to Strike!
August 19, 2024
With less than three months until the 2024 presidential election, we are firmly entrenched in political silly season.
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Supreme Court Ruling in Starbucks v. McKinney: Implications for Employees and Unions
June 20, 2024
On June 13, 2024, the Supreme Court held that the National Labor Relations Board is subject to the same standard as any other litigant when it seeks a preliminary injunction in unfair labor practice cases.
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So, A Union’s Own Unionized Workers Go On Strike…
June 18, 2024
There was a bit of schadenfreude with the news that employees engaged in a strike due to unfair labor practices allegedly committed by their employer – who happens to be both a union and unionized!
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UAW Mercedes Loss - A "Bump in the Road?"
May 23, 2024
May 17th's, 2,045 union yes to 2,642 union no vote should slow down the UAW’s southern organizing engine, but the UAW is in this for the long haul.
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General Counsel Abruzzo’s Latest Memorandum Encourages a Further Expansion of Remedies for Employees
May 23, 2024
On April 8, NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo issued GC Memo 24-04, providing yet another memorandum broadening remedies for employees that have been wrongfully discharged for engaging in union or other protected concerted activity.
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UAW's Win at VW
April 22, 2024
The UAW’s $40 million “Southern Strategy” had its first success yesterday.
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OSHA Opens Your Doors to Union Reps
March 31, 2024
On Friday, March 29, OSHA issued its final revisions to its “walkaround rule” to allow non-employees to participate in OSHA inspections.
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Three Ways 2023 Was A Banner Year For Unions
March 26, 2024
Now that the dust has settled on 2023, it’s crystal clear that it was a banner year for unions. Let’s take a closer look.
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So, Dartmouth Won’t Play Ball with the Union…
March 20, 2024
A Regional Director for the National Labor Relations Board issued a game-changing decision that players on Dartmouth’s men’s basketball team are “employees” within the meaning of the National Labor Relations Act.
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