The National Labor Relations Board, now with all seats appointed if not yet filled and confirmed by the Senate, pretty much continues to make business sick with some of its anti-business decisions. Fortunately however, the courts are there to correct and undo the excesses of the (rogue?) independent agency until the full complement of members…
Read More »An effort by the AFL-CIO to place a petition to repeal the Missouri Right to Work law was dealt a severe blow this week when the Cole County Circuit Court ruled the petition was unfair and insufficient and hence, would be misleading to the voters of the Show Me state. The judge questioned the validity…
Read More »Missouri may have officially become the 28th state in the union with a right to work law back in February when Governor Eric Greitens signed the right to work bill into law, but the issue is still very much in flux. Labor officials are pursuing their effort to collect enough signatures to put a ballot…
Read More »Speaking of labor and labor-centric issues, last week the DC Circuit Court of Appeals overturned an NLRB decision where the agency had ruled that workers could not revoke “dues checkoff” authorizations (which allows an employer to deduct union dues directly from the paychecks of union members) between the expiration of a union contract and the…
Read More »The national wave of states adopting right to work legislation hit a bump and stalled this past week when the Colorado House State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee voted to kill Senate Bill 55, which would have prohibited any Colorado company from requiring union membership as a condition of employment. The demise of SB 55…
Read More »For the past few months, we’ve reported regularly on the ups and downs of former Trump Labor Secretary nominee Andy Puzder and the ultimately successful effort to derail his appointment. Early indications are that the new nominee for the business-critical post, Alexander Acosta, (here is a story on his time on the National Labor Relations…
Read More »Notwithstanding the above, Kentucky effectively mooted the aforementioned Hardin County court case when Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin signed Kentucky right to work legislation into law last Saturday. The newly republican-controlled Kentucky Senate moved quickly to get the bill before the governor after the House (also boasting a republican majority) passed the bill last week. The…
Read More »Early this week, a federal court judge rejected a union challenge to the Wisconsin right-to-work laws citing a 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that upheld a similar law in Indiana. In his order, filed on Monday, U.S. District Court Judge J.P. Stadtmueller rejected requests for preliminary injunctions by the two plaintiffs, Locals 139 and…
Read More »Yes, you read that correctly, the National Labor Relations Board was found guilty of unfair labor practices last week in a case brought by its own union. An administrative law judge with the government’s Labor Relations Authority ruled the regulatory agency (charged with objectively arbitrating worker’s rights in private employment) violated their employees’ rights by…
Read More »New York Governor Andrew Cuomo continues his aggressive push to establish a $15/hour threshold across the state. Last week, he participated in a rally in New York City with Labor Secretary Thomas Perez, a gaggle of union leaders, elected officials, clergy and other advocates to announce that the minimum wage for state university workers would…
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