September 16th 2021
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Yesterday, the U.S. Senate voted 51-50 to confirm Jennifer Abruzzo as General Counsel for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), with Vice President Kamala Harris casting the deciding vote. Abruzzo’s confirmation, preceded Tuesday by an equally divided,...
Yesterday The New York Times spotlighted a post-Janus battle in Alaska over public sector union membership. While Alaska has traditionally been friendly union territory, Governor Mike Dunleavy, a conservative Republican who took office late last year, has shown...
On Friday, June 14, the NLRB overturned 38 years of precedent, holding in UPMC and SEIU, 368 NLRB No. 2 (June 14, 2019), that an employer has no duty to permit nonemployee union organizers to use public space on its property to solicit union support. The case...
The New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission voted this week to create a minimum pay standard for the approximately 80,000 drivers in the city working for transportation network companies like Uber, Lyft, Juno, and Via. The standard establishes a per-minute and...
The NLRB General Counsel has begun to implement parts of a 59-point plan announced in January to reorganize agency operations. In a memo to regional board directors sent on Monday, Associate to the General Counsel Beth Tursell detailed the immediate formation of a...
After long campaign by thousands of app-based drivers with the Independent Drivers Guild, New York City released a report today analyzing a proposal to establish a minimum pay rate for app-based for-hire vehicle drivers. The NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission,...