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Trump Names New Labor Board Nominees: The 5 Cases That Could Soon Reshape the Law

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After several months without a functioning quorum, President Trump nominated James Murphy and Scott Mayer to fill vacant seats on the National Labor Relations Board late last week, signaling the potential for a significant...more

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NLRB's New Framework for Union Organizing Puts Employers at a Severe Disadvantage

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The National Labor Relations Board has issued a groundbreaking decision that jettisons 50 years of established law to provide unions a more favorable framework to organize nonunion companies. On the heels of new rules...more

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NLRB Continues to Take Control From Employers Resisting Union Efforts

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The National Labor Relations Board, as currently constituted, continues its efforts to kneecap employers who dare to resist unionization efforts. We have already seen NLRB General Counsel, Jennifer Abruzzo’s, scorched-earth...more

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7 Things Employers Couldn’t Say About Unions if NLRB’s General Counsel Has Her Way

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When the National Labor Relations Board’s General Counsel stealthily released a series of older Advice Memoranda at the end of January, she sent a not-so-subtle hint to employers: the Board will soon be taking a tougher...more

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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

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Top NLRB Lawyer Aims to Impose Union Recognition Through ‘Card Check’ Process

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An employer can generally refuse a union’s demand for recognition and insist on a secret ballot vote, according to established federal labor law authority, but relying on this authority seems somewhat risky at the moment. For...more

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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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“Card Check 2.0” — NLRB General Counsel Seeks to Resurrect Long-Dead Joy Silk Doctrine to Help Unions Organize Employees

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On April 11, 2022, the National Labor Relations Board’s General Counsel, Jennifer Abruzzo, filed a brief in a case pending before the NLRB, Cemex Construction Materials Pacific, seeking a return to the NLRB’s long-abandoned...more

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NLRB GC Seeks to Curtail Employers’ Defenses to Union Organizing Amidst Huge Increase in Union Election Petitions

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On April 6, the National Labor Relations Board announced that union representation petitions filed with the agency during the first six (6) months of the fiscal year had increased 57% from the previous year....more

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Top 10 Workplace Law Predictions for 2022

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Workplace law has changed dramatically over the past two years of the pandemic. Unfortunately, 2022 (or is it “2020 too”?) is shaping up to be another year full of new rules and regulations within this volatile area of law....more

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NLRB General Counsel Makes it Easier to Attack Neutrality Agreements

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A “neutrality agreement” is generally one in which an employer agrees neither to assist nor oppose a union organizing campaign. In practice, though, some agreements require the employer’s active support. Not only that, but...more

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