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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
Following a landmark NLRB ruling last year, the answer is yes. For the last several decades, the process for union recognition of an employer’s workforce was largely unchanged....more
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
The NLRB has the authority to order an employer to reopen a business it finds was closed for discriminatorily anti-union reasons. In RAV Truck & Trailer Repairs, Inc., 369 NLRB No. 36 (Mar. 3, 2020), the NLRB did just that....more
Recent media reports have covered the relatively new phenomenon of minority labor unions. These are not traditional unions in the sense of formal organizing, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) certification, and exclusive...more
A Biden presidency will surely bring changes to federal labor law under the National Labor Relations Act, the primary law that governs employee collective activity, labor-management relations, collective bargaining, and union...more
The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) will be 85 years old on July 5, 2020. On July 5, 1935, the Wagner Act was signed into law by President Franklin Roosevelt. That law gave...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: The National Labor Relations Board issued a decision in Wynn Las Vegas, LLC, 369 N.L.R.B. No. 91 (May 29, 2020) that redefines “solicitation” to include any employee activity encouraging other employees to...more
A Trending News interview from Employment Law This Week®, featuring attorney Adam Abrahms of Epstein Becker Green: The General Counsel for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has signaled what could be a major shift in...more
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or the “Board”) has been steadily increasing employers’ rights to restrict union access to their facilities. Now the Board appears poised to codify the new rules of engagement in...more
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently issued another decision benefitting employers by holding that an employer does not violate the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) when it removes from the employer’s parking...more
The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) provides that employees have a right to organize, bargain collectively and engage in protected concerted activities. The NLRA makes it an unfair labor practice for an employer “to...more
On October 12, 2019, Governor Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1291 (“AB 1291”) into law, which requires companies to sign a so-called “labor peace” agreement with a union or risk losing their cannabis license; thereby,...more
On September 6, 2019, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board) issued its decision in Kroger Limited Partnership I Mid-Atlantic, 368 NLRB No. 64, and officially rejected the idea that employers that allow civic and...more
A nonemployee’s solicitation for charitable or civic causes on an employer’s property is not the equivalent of a nonemployee union representative’s engaging in a protest soliciting customers to boycott an employer or in union...more
Setting clear and reasonable standards for taking access to an employer’s private property is high on the National Labor Relations Board’s agenda. Not only is the Board talking about issuing formal rules in this area, but the...more
Labor Board Further Tightens Union Access To Employer Property - In yet another ruling that levels the labor relations playing field, the National Labor Relations Board ruled on Friday that employers could rightfully...more
The National Labor Relations Board (the “Board”) recently issued a decision in UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside that reverses longstanding Board precedent and holds that employers no longer have to allow nonemployee union...more
Citing judicial criticism, as well as the original Supreme Court decisions on the issue, the NLRB swept away years of precedent permitting union representatives to access public areas of an employer’s premises. In UPMC...more