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Employers Still Need to Follow Tighter Standard When Unions Request Recognition: A Review of 2 Years of Post-Cemex Decisions

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Next month marks the second anniversary of a controversial National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decision that overruled decades-old precedent and made it easier for unions to organize but harder for employers to counter...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

The Labor Law Insider: Forget the Election: Union Representation Without the Messy Election is the Next Labor Law Reality, Part II

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Husch Blackwell partners Tom O’Day and Tyler Paetkau join Labor Law Insider host Tom Godar in Part II of this discussion of the impact of new Cemex decision by the NLRB. Suddenly, minor violations of the National Labor...more

McDermott Will & Emery

NLRB Abandons Primacy of Secret Ballot Elections: Employers Should Reassess Labor Relations Risk and Develop New Action Plans

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In its recent Cemex Construction decision, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) abandoned two fundamental rules enshrined in Supreme Court case law. Both of those Supreme Court decisions prioritized secret ballot...more

Foley Hoag LLP

NLRB Upends 50 Years of Precedent, Narrows Employer Options for Secret Ballot Elections in Union Organizing Campaigns

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On August 25, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a decision that significantly narrows employers’ options in contesting union organizing efforts through secret ballot elections. The case, Cemex...more

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Employers Have New Obligations when the Union Demands Voluntary Recognition

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Under a typical election scenario, a union files an election petition with the Board’s Regional Office, along with a “showing of interest” demonstrating enough employee support (at least 30% of the unit described in the...more

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NLRB General Counsel Seeks to Limit Secret Ballot Elections in Favor of Union Recognition Based on Card Count

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Executive Summary: On April 11, 2022, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or the “Board”) General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo (“Abruzzo”) filed a brief in Cemex Construction Materials Pacific, petitioning the Board to...more

Proskauer - Labor Relations Update

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

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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

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