Yesterday, a federal District Court in Texas granted the plaintiffs against the Department of Labor a temporary injunction. This action freezes in place the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act rules as they were before the DOL’s announcement of its new … Continued
As you have probably read, the Department of Labor has agreed to exempt from reporting any services and financial matters between labor consultants engaged in indirect “persuader” activities and their employer clients. The reporting requirements are onerous and intrusive on … Continued
If you think you have a union problem … you do, and it’s worse than you think! With nearly three quarters of a year of NLRB “Quickie Election” experience, some retrospective observations and prospective guidance may be helpful. The NLRB, … Continued
Somewhere along the way, the NLRB’s use of the Act’s policy of “encouraging the practice and procedure of collective bargaining” to responsibly develop labor law has transformed into a convenient rationalization for rewriting many of the foundational precedents and procedures embedded in the Act for … Continued
We are now over 90 days into the era of the Quickie Election. The number of petitions filed during the first three months indicates unions have been energized by the change in the NLRB’s representation case procedure. In the … Continued
In what may prove to be another game changer in the union organizing process, BuzzFeed News reports that the liberal think tank, The Century Foundation, has released an informational brief calling for the creation of an online tool that could assist … Continued
May 6, 2015 A new Pew Research Center survey describes widely varying opinions about unions and the right to organize. Some key findings: 52% of participants felt the decline in union membership was bad for the country. Nearly half (48%) … Continued
Yesterday, United States District Judge Robert L. Pitman rejected employer groups’ challenge to the National Labor Relations Board’s implementation of the so called Ambush (or Quickie) Election Rule. The rule imposes a greatly reduced timetable for elections where employees will … Continued
May 22, 2015 The results of the first month of the “NLRB’s Quickie Election Era” is displayed below. Clearly, the time from petition to election has shrunk considerably from before, but the much anticipated 13-day election is certainly not a … Continued
The NLRB’s new quickie election rule implemented this past week has many repercussions for employers. The biggest being that the “quickie elections” leave little to no time for strong, effective anti-union campaigns. This makes proceedings more difficult during an already … Continued