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If you're a non-profit leader, chances are you wear many hats: fundraiser, mission champion, crisis responder, community builder. But if your workforce is unionized, there’s another important hat that you may need to wear:...more
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
While most employers in the U.S. must comply with the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), employers in the railroad and airline industries need to understand the Railway Labor Act (RLA) and how its unique requirements impact...more
Just days into the newest Congressional session, a key Republican Senator shocked many employers by pushing for a law that would significantly tilt the playing field to the benefit of unions and labor advocates. Senator Josh...more
Davis Wright Tremaine's Labor and Employment Services group is pleased to invite you to a client webinar designed to help values-driven organizations navigate union recognition and bargaining. This informative session will...more
As employers anticipate possible changes in labor policy stemming from the recent presidential election, they should also consider two recent National Labor Relations Board (Board) decisions and a General Counsel (GC)...more
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
On October 14th, The National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) announced that the number of union organizing petitions filed from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2024, more than doubled from the same period in 2021. Petitions...more
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
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
On November 8, 2024, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) issued a decision in Siren Retail Corp. d/b/a Starbucks, throwing out an almost 40-year-old rule that categorically allowed employers to tell their employees...more
On November 8, 2024, the National Labor Relations Board (the “Board”) handed down its decision in Siren Retail Corp. d/b/a Starbucks, 373 NLRB 135, turning 40-year-old precedent regarding what employers can and cannot...more
Last year, the United Auto Workers (“UAW”) championed what they considered to be a massive win derived from more than 50,000 of its 146,000 members striking at various Ford, Stellantis, and General Motors plants across twenty...more
It has been a particularly busy year on the labor and employment law front. To learn more about the major challenges employers face and developments your organization needs to address before year's end, we encourage you to...more
In a 9-0 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court recently sided with Starbucks Corp. over the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in a decision that would severely delay the process for the NLRB to obtain preliminary injunctions...more
In an eight-to-one decision this month, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Starbucks in Starbucks Corp. v. McKinney, involving a longstanding legal battle against the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The NLRB was...more
The Supreme Court of the United States recently unanimously ruled against the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) in Starbucks Corp. v. McKinney. The decision reversed the NLRB’s attempt to change the standard for...more
The US Supreme Court, in an 8-1 decision in Starbucks Corp. v. McKinney, ruled that federal district courts must apply a traditional four-factor test when evaluating requests for injunctive relief brought by the National...more
According to U.S. News & World Report, in 1758 George Washington was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses after he plied voters with beer, whiskey, rum punch, and wine. He did so after a landslide loss three years...more
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
In this episode of The Burr Broadcast, Bryance Metheny, leader of the firm's Labor & Employment practice group, discusses the process that private employers would follow if a union attempts to organize its workforce. He uses...more
The Fallout from the NLRB’s Cemex Decision - As we previously addressed, the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) August 25, 2023, decision in Cemex Construction Materials Pacific, LLC overturned long-established...more
Union organizing efforts are not limited to historical union strongholds such as manufacturing, construction, and the public sector. Even though unions currently represent only about 1.3% of the financial services industry,...more
Unions won 95 percent of the elections involving groups of 500 or more workers that occurred in the first half of 2023. Overall, unions won 662 elections during that same period – covering over 58,000 workers, the greatest...more
The National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) landmark decision in the Cemex Construction Materials Pacific, LLC case, issued on August 25, signifies an attempt by its current leadership to turn around long-declining union...more