December 5, 2017 As anticipated, President Trump’s new General Counsel for the National Labor Relations Board has hit the ground running. Peter Robb, nominated and confirmed last month, issued a memo on December 1st in essence reversing all of … Continued
For the first time in 8½ years, reason may return to the national labor policy arena. The new Congress has proposed legislative actions to reverse some of the draconian and shamefully biased positions of the Obama administration. There are … Continued
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
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