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Minority Unions Belong in the G.C.’s Memo

Aug 27, 2021 Benjamin Sachs

Much has been written about what the new NLRB General Counsel included in her August 12th memorandum, which sets forth the priorities for her tenure at the Board. A good deal of attention has focused on GC Abruzzo’s decision to take a fresh look at the Joy Silk doctrine and the new regime of bargaining […]

Federal Judge Recognizes President’s Ability to Remove NLRB GC At Will

Jul 26, 2021 Fred Wang

Hours into his administration, President Biden fired the National Labor Relation Board’s (NLRB) Trump-era general counsel (GC), Peter Robb. Upon Robb’s termination, many Republicans clamored that Biden’s move was inappropriate, divisive, even illegal. Many observers—including myself—were skeptical of that latter argument. But over the past few months, corporations in pending litigation with the NLRB have […]

Is the NLRB About to Become Even More Politicized?

Apr 1, 2021 Maxwell Ulin

Hours after his inauguration, President Joe Biden delighted labor unions by dismissing the notoriously anti-union Peter Robb as General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or the “Board”). As Fred notes, Biden justified his unprecedented decision to remove Robb before the end of his term by citing the Supreme Court’s recent decision in […]

The Promise and Danger of the NLRB’s New Workplace Civility Doctrine

Mar 23, 2021 Fred Wang

On the eve of a union election, an event venue server, frustrated with what he perceives to be management’s continuing disrespect towards its employees, takes to Facebook and uses profane language to describe a supervisor while urging his co-workers to vote to unionize. During a work lockout at a manufacturing plant, a white employee at […]

NLRB Abandons Rulemaking that Would Have Stripped Graduate Students Workers of Right to Unionize

Mar 12, 2021 Jon Levitan

The NLRB announced today that it was ending its effort to overrule via rulemaking Columbia University, 364 NLRB No. 90 (2016), which held that graduate student workers at private universities were “employees” under the NLRA and able to unionize. Chairwoman Lauren McFerran, the lone Democrat on the board, tweeted that “student employees are workers deserving […]

Why the Legal Challenge to Robb’s Removal Is a Losing Argument

Feb 25, 2021 Fred Wang

At the early outset of his administration, President Biden—in keeping with his pledge to be “the most pro-union president you’ve ever seen”—fired the National Labor Relation Board’s general counsel, Peter Robb, after Robb—a pro-management Trump appointee and now the first NLRB general counsel to be dismissed in decades—refused the President’s request to resign ten months […]

An Update on Graduate Student Unions and the NLRB

Feb 23, 2021 Ash Tomaszewski

The employee status, and union bargaining rights, of graduate student workers has fluctuated over the last twenty years with the changing of Presidential administrations and the political make-up of the NLRB. But this year is likely to be particularly tumultuous as the agency becomes a center for a pro-labor President’s agenda. The current state of […]

The D.C. Circuit Reminds Us How Hard it Will be to Restore the Right to Organize

Oct 28, 2020 Andrew Strom

If Joe Biden wins the Presidential election and the Democrats win control of the Senate, then the Trump National Labor Relations Board will soon be just a bad memory. But, the D.C. Circuit’s recent decision in Davidson Hotel Co. v. NLRB is a reminder that changing the composition of the NLRB will not, by itself, […]

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Minority Unions Belong in the G.C.’s Memo

Federal Judge Recognizes President’s Ability to Remove NLRB GC At Will

Is the NLRB About to Become Even More Politicized?

The Promise and Danger of the NLRB’s New Workplace Civility Doctrine

NLRB Abandons Rulemaking that Would Have Stripped Graduate Students Workers of Right to Unionize

Why the Legal Challenge to Robb’s Removal Is a Losing Argument

An Update on Graduate Student Unions and the NLRB

The D.C. Circuit Reminds Us How Hard it Will be to Restore the Right to Organize