Management’s Workplace Blog – Information and Insights for Employers
The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit recently handed down a decision on union handbilling that employers should note (Roundy’s Inc. v. NLRB, Nos. 10-3921 & 11-1292).
The case involved a grocery store chain in Wisconin, Pick ‘N Save. The chain was using non-union contractors to remodel some of its locations. This…
Editors Note: This is the latest installment in the Labor & Employment Report’s regular feature “Specialty Healthcare Watch.” In Speciality Healthcare, the NLRB redefined the test for what constitutes an appropriate bargaining unit. The Labor & Employment Report is analyzing post-Speciality Healthcare cases to give employers insights on how to apply that holding. For more…
Editors Note: This is the latest installment in the Labor & Employment Report’s regular feature “Specialty Healthcare Watch.” In Speciality Healthcare, the NLRB redefined the test for what constitutes an appropriate bargaining unit. The Labor & Employment Report is analyzing post-Speciality Healthcare cases to give employers insights on how to apply that holding. For more…
The NLRB’s General Counsel’s office has aggressively taken on arbitration in the past year. But, in a little-noticed case, the full Board had the opportunity to adopt the GC’s position on post-arbitration deferral and declined to do so.
Some background — about a year ago, the GC’s office announced a change in how it viewed…
A few weeks ago, I posted about a New York Times op-ed arguing that the “right to join a labor union” should be a protected classification under Title VII.
The issue is starting to pick up steam in the union-friendly blogosphere. For instance, yesterday over at the Huffington Post, Dean Baker, a well-respected think tank…
So write our friends over at the Boston Herald. Major labor union leaders are meeting tomorrow in sunny Florida to review the state of labor and it appears that the Democratic Party might be left back in the chilly North. For sure, organized labor is poised to endorse President Obama again. But it looks…
We have taken the weekend to review and digest the DC District Court ruling from Friday on the NLRB poster. Here is the official Shawe Rosenthal take (also delivered to you today via an e-lert). We strongly urge employers to contact us if you have additional questions about the ruling and/or whether you should post…
BREAKING NEWS!
The United States District Court for the District of Columbia just handed down its decision in the case challenging the NLRB poster requirement. The good news for the NLRB: the Judge found that the NLRB acted lawfully in promulgating the poster. The bad news for the NLRB — and this is very bad…
The New York Times runs a very….peculiar op-ed today that actually marries labor and employment law. The authors of the piece argue that the “right to organize” a labor union should become a “protected class” under Title VII. Here is the crux of their argument:
Our proposal would make disciplining or firing an employee “on
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As we previously noted, the constitutionality of the NLRB is an open question these days. A few weeks ago, House Republicans jumped into the fray and convened a full-fledged hearing on the matter. That might have been interesting theatre, but, ultimately it did not mean much as far as figuring out if the current Board…
