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Trump’s Labor Board to U.S. Workers: “Shut Up and Work”

Jul 14, 2020 Andrew Strom

I recently wrote about how the Trump National Labor Relations Board has allowed employers to fire workers for urging their co-workers to vote for unionization during working time. On the heels of that decision, the Trump appointees gave employers another tool to silence workers. Last month, in California Commerce Club, Inc.,the NLRB held that where […]

June 11, 2020
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

As Mackenzie and Zach discussed earlier this week, responses to recent protests by union leaders have reflected a growing divide within the movement. On Monday, the Writers Guild of America, East joined existing calls by the Flight Attendants and numerous labor-adjacent organizations to expel the International Union of Police Associations (IUPA) from the AFL-CIO. In […]

Dissent in Exile: Wynn Las Vegas, LLC, 369 NLRB No. 91 (May 29, 2020)

Jun 8, 2020 Andrew Strom

What’s the difference between talking about whether a union is good or bad, and encouraging a co-worker to vote for or against union representation? I don’t know either, but the National Labor Relations Board has just held that an employer may categorically prohibit the latter type of conversation during work time even though it must […]

May 14, 2020
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

The Department of Labor announced this morning that 2.9 million more Americans filed for unemployment in the past week, raising the nation’s record-shattering unemployment rate beyond 14.7%. Among the 36.5 million people now unemployed are some 600,000 clean energy workers, whose employment has been especially affected due to comparative economic fragility of many clean-energy start-ups […]

The Trump NLRB Needs to Be Removed

Apr 1, 2020 Lynn Rhinehart

That’s it. The Trump appointees to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) need to be removed for neglect of duty and malfeasance – now. The latest outrage? Yesterday, the Trump Board added to its long and growing list of anti-worker, anti-union actions, issuing new rules that undermine the longstanding practice of voluntary recognition, by which […]

February 27, 2020
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

Yesterday, the National Labor Relations Board formally published a final rule revising the established test of joint-employer liability for labor violations. As Jared explained on Tuesday, the new rule replaces an Obama-era decision that allowed the board to consider businesses’ indirect or reserved control over workers as an independent basis for liability—as opposed to […]

January 16, 2020
News & Commentary

Jared Odessky

Yesterday the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Babb v. Wilkie. The question before the Court was whether federal workers alleging age discrimination under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) must show that the adverse action would not have happened “but for” their age, or whether the government can be held liable if age […]

December 13, 2019
News & Commentary

Ryan Gorman

Yesterday, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) directed an Administrative Law Judge to approve a series of proposed settlement agreements proffered by McDonald’s in a long-running dispute over unfair labor practices committed by its franchisees—a dispute that centers on the degree to which the company can be held accountable for those violations as a “joint […]

November 12, 2019
News & Commentary

Ryan Gorman

Yesterday, workers at Hearst Magazines announced plans to form a union with the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE). Union organizers told The Daily Beast that they spent over a year building support across 24 Hearst-owned brands, among which include well-known publications like Esquire, Good Housekeeping, and Cosmopolitan. Organizers said that a “strong majority” of […]

Making Bad Law Worse: The Inequity of the Board’s Walmart Decision

Aug 20, 2019 Sharon Block

Section 13 of the National Labor Relations Act says that “[n]othing in this Act shall be construed so as to interfere with or impede or diminish in any way the right to strike.” The Supreme Court has instructed that this protection should be given a “generous interpretation.” For a long time, however, the law governing […]

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Trump’s Labor Board to U.S. Workers: “Shut Up and Work”

June 11, 2020

Dissent in Exile: Wynn Las Vegas, LLC, 369 NLRB No. 91 (May 29, 2020)

May 14, 2020

The Trump NLRB Needs to Be Removed

February 27, 2020

January 16, 2020

December 13, 2019

November 12, 2019

Making Bad Law Worse: The Inequity of the Board’s Walmart Decision