National Labor Relations Board Acting General Counsel Peter Sung Ohr two weeks ago issued a new Memorandum (GC 21-03) to the NLRB field offices significantly adjusting agency enforcement priorities under Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). GC 21-03 points to the increased workplace health and safety issues relating from the COVID-19 pandemic…
Read More »The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) this week proposed yet another change to the legal parameters governing union elections, continuing to refine that process. The major change published in the Federal Register this week would eliminate the requirement that employers provide available personal email addresses and telephone numbers of all eligible voters during a union…
Read More »The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) last week finalized changes to union representation election rules that will prevent unions from blocking decertification elections indefinitely as they have been able to do for the past 8 or so years. Under the Obama administration, the NLRB allowed unions to file unfair labor practice charges to create doubt…
Read More »The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) this week published a proposed rulemaking that will revamp the agency rules regarding union representation elections. The first proposed rulemaking in an expected series of changes will reshape the current “blocking charge” which allows unions to stop decertification votes by alleging election interference. Under the NLRB proposal, decertification votes…
Read More »The Portland Oregon-based burger chain, Little Big Burger deserves much credit for getting ahead of and defeating a unionizing effort by the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) in 12 of the company’s 20 stores. The company first drew the union wrath a number of weeks ago after it terminated (for valid cause) an employee…
Read More »Earlier this week, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Chairman John Ring made it clear that the agency will clarify its position on the joint employer issue sometime this summer. There has been discussion about how and when the agency would undo the Obama rule that dramatically expanded the definition of joint employer and cast a…
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