Their hypocrisy is championship caliber, as a chapter of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) in California – in fact, Local 2015, one of the largest local within SEIU – has been quite aggressive in trying to bust the union of its own staff members. About 95% of the union workers voted to authorize a…
Read More »Late yesterday, the NLRB announced that it had prevailed in federal district court and won an injunction against Starbucks ordering the company to rehire a number of workers it had terminated and further to cease all unlawful activities. The case involved a successful union election held at a Starbucks in Memphis where the company disciplined…
Read More »Whether the NLRB wants to admit it or not, employers do indeed have a right to speak on the question of whether or not their employees should unionize. In fact, the US Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, based in Philadelphia, last week rejected a request by the NLRB for an enforcement order…
Read More »Republicans have introduced a counter-measure to the joint employer expansion contained in the PRO Act, which as we’ve reported previously, has already passed the House. Senator Roger Marshall (R-KS) and Representative James Comer (R-KY) introduced the Save Local Business Act, which seeks to amend the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) and Fair Labor Standards Act…
Read More »By a straight party-line vote of 26-21, the US House Education and Labor Committee advanced the “Protecting the Right to Organize Act” (H.R.2474) out of committee and sent it to the full House for further deliberation. Filed by House Committee Chairman Bobby Scott (D-VA), the PRO Act would strengthen collective bargaining rights for workers in…
Read More »NLRB also gave another win to an employer last week in the Bexar County Performing Arts Center Foundation decision. In that case, the NLRB Board overruled an administrative law judge’s finding that the employer could not prohibit workers in the employ of a subcontractor of the employer from distributing protest leaflets to patrons attending the…
Read More »The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has struck down 2 provisions in an employer policy manuals as overly broad and in violation of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). The first dealt with Company information confidentiality, in that a company policy stated that “[T]here shall be no disclosure of any confidential information to anyone outside…
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Appeals Court protects employees’ right to wear buttons advocating higher wages While employers may require employees to wear a uniform at work, under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) employees have the right to wear union buttons and insignia while working. Those conflicting rights have created fights over what a company may require and what…
Read More »It’s beginning to look like it will be here forever, as the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) last week in a case brought by the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) and the Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC). The court found that the rule…
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