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The National Labor Relations Board 2024 Year-End Review

The hits just kept coming from the National Labor Relations Board in 2024. The final year of the Biden board produced a flurry of decisions that kept labor practitioners on their toes. It seemed that each month, there was a...more

Bodman

Mandatory “Captive Audience” Meetings Now Illegal

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Since the 1940’s, the National Labor Relations Board (“the Board”) has held the position that mandatory meetings with employees where the employer expresses its views on unions, typically referred to as “Captive Audience...more

Saul Ewing LLP

NLRB Forbids Captive-Audience Meetings

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On Wednesday, November 13, 2024, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled that an employer may no longer require employees to attend meetings in which the employer expresses its views on unionization. The 3-1 decision...more

Epstein Becker & Green

NLRB Finds Lawful Employer Statements to Employees Are Unlawful Going Forward

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Just hours after it became clear that Donald Trump would be returning to the White House, the majority Democratic National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) showed no signs of slowing down its efforts to implement the Biden...more

Baker Donelson

NLRB Places Further Restrictions on Employers: Captive Audience Meetings Restricted

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The National Labor Relations Board (the Board) voted 3-1 (along party lines, with Member Kaplan dissenting) on November 13, 2024, to prohibit so-called "captive audience" meetings.1 In doing so, the Board overturned...more

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The NLRB Overturns Another Longstanding Rule Involving Employers Expressing Views on Unionization to a “Captive Audience”

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On November 13, 2024, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) issued a sharply divided decision in Amazon.com Services LLC, overruling yet another decades-old rule and holding that captive-‍audience meetings violate...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

NLRB Issues Two Decisions Limiting Management's Ability to Contest Unionization

During union representation campaigns, it is common for employers to advise employees of the downsides posed by union recognition. The current National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has criticized these tactics, alleging that...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

Labor Law Insider - Collective Bargaining: Ins and Outs, Nuts and Bolts, Part II

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In part two of this thought-provoking podcast episode on the tricky business of collective bargaining, Husch Blackwell attorneys Jon Anderson and Adam Doerr share war stories and real-life advice with host Tom Godar. Their...more

Maynard Nexsen

Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast | Episode 11: Understanding Unions with Patrick Wilson, Maynard Nexsen Attorney...

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In this two part series, Maynard Nexsen labor & employment attorney Pat Wilson joins hosts Tina and Christy to discuss what employers should understand about unions and how they can address them. Pat dives into the influence...more

Venable LLP

NLRB Allows Unions to Represent Workers Without a Formal Vote

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On August 25, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or the Board) decided that employers must either recognize a new union or promptly file for an election when a union asks for recognition based on a majority of...more

Williams Mullen

Tales From the NLRB: More Remedies More Often

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On April 20, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (Board) committed itself to imposing more remedies more often when dealing with parties “who have shown a proclivity to violate the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) or...more

Sands Anderson PC

Virginia Public Employers Grapple with Still-New Collective Bargaining Authority

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While various public employer entities at all levels of government in most of the United States have had some history and experience with public sector collective bargaining, Virginia public employers have only been empowered...more

Proskauer - Labor Relations Update

General Counsel Abruzzo Looks to Overturn Board Precedent Again: This Time, Seeking to Broaden Union Access to Public Spaces

In an Advice Memorandum released on May 25, 2022, NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo laid out a blueprint for changes she’d like made to Board precedent concerning union representatives’ access to employer property. At...more

Proskauer - Labor Relations Update

Appellate Court Reverses NLRB, Holding Tweet About “Salt Mines” Not an Unfair Labor Practice

Last week, the Third Circuit reversed a National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) decision finding that FDRLST Media, publisher of online news magazine The Federalist, unlawfully threatened its employees when its Executive...more

Stinson LLP

Are Captive-Audience Meetings and Secret-Ballot Elections About to Vanish?

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Uncertainty looms as NLRB General Counsel seeks to upend a combined 127 years of settled labor law to help unions organize workplaces Labor law has long been somewhat prone to uncertainty and inconsistency. - Each new...more

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NLRB General Counsel Seeks to Facilitate Organizing

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The National Labor Relations Board’s current General Counsel, Jennifer Abbruzzo, is currently taking aggressive positions designed to help unions be more successful in organizing. The General Counsel is the agency’s top...more

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Latest Developments from the Connecticut General Assembly: The Labor and Public Employees Committee Has Spoken (Part One-Expansion...

Following its initial action, (Latest Developments from the Connecticut General Assembly: The Labor and Public Employees Committee Begins to Speak), the General Assembly’s Labor and Public Employees Committee likely finished...more

Proskauer - Labor Relations Update

BREAKING: NLRB General Counsel Seeks to Scrap 50 Years of Precedent and Require Card Check Recognition

With Congress failing to make the organizing process easier for unions, the NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo is now asking the Board to require employers to recognize unions without a secret ballot election. As...more

Burr & Forman

A Lurking Danger – Is Unionization Inevitable?

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Since March of 2020 American businesses have been challenged with unprecedented and unique obstacles. A fairly robust economic engine shut down overnight, shelves were bare and supply chains were interrupted at an alarming...more

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NLRB's Top Prosecutor Seeks to Muzzle Employers by Banning Employee Meetings

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Executive Summary: In an April 7, 2022 memo from the NLRB, General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo (“Abruzzo”) announced her intent to challenge employers’ long-standing practice of holding informational meetings regarding union...more

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NLRB General Counsel Aggressively Seeks to Expand Unions’ Right to Demand Recognition; Restrict Employer Speech

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National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or “the Board”) General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo continues to push the Board to take aggressive and unprecedented pro-labor stances, seeking to overturn decades of well-settled...more

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Following the Doctor’s Orders: NLRB Decision Prescribes Union Election for Physicians

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In Piedmont Health Services, Inc. and Piedmont Health Services Medical Providers United, Case No. 10-RC-286648, Region 10 of the National Labor Relations Board (Region) issued a Decision and Direction of Election (DDE) in...more

Akerman LLP - HR Defense

Unsuccessful Union Election? Employers Might Still Be Ordered to Engage in Collective Bargaining

Employers with a workforce seeking to unionize may soon be ordered to bargain even without a union election (or potentially, even if the employer won the election)—if the NLRB’s General Counsel succeeds in resurrecting a...more

Jenner & Block

Students or Employees?: The National College Players Association Files Charges Asserting Student Athletes are Employees under the...

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On February 8, 2022, the National College Players Association (NCPA), an advocacy group for college athletes, filed unfair labor practice charges before the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) against the National...more

Akerman LLP - HR Defense

Prepare Now for Anticipated Labor Law Changes in 2022

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General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo of the National Labor Relations Board continues to make waves as she shares with employers, unions, and workers alike, her views on hot button issues at the NLRB....more

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