Tom Luetkemeyer

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NLRB Reverses 50-Year Precedent and Lessens Standard for a Bargaining Order Without a Secret Ballot Election

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) reversed over fifty years of established precedent on August 25, 2023, when it decided to overrule its 1971 decision in Linden Lumber and reinstate a modified version of its 1949 Joy...more

8/28/2023 / Collective Bargaining , Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBA) , NLRA , NLRB , Secret Ballot , Unfair Labor Practices , Union Elections , Unions

General Counsel of NLRB Seeks to Revoke Right of Employers to Recognize a Union on a Voluntarily Basis and Insist on a Private...

Voluntary recognition of a union as the exclusive bargaining representative for employees within an identified bargaining unit of the employer can have potentially game-changing consequences for an employer. However, if the...more

6/13/2022 / Bargaining Units , Collective Bargaining , Employer Liability Issues , NLRA , NLRB , Secret Ballot , Union Elections , Unions

Why Employers Need to Pay Special Attention to the Protect the Right to Organize Act of 2021

With little fanfare or press coverage, the United States House of Representatives passed a sweeping bill on March 9, 2021, that would amend provisions of federal labor law that in some cases have been in place as long ago as...more

4/22/2021 / Browning-Ferris Industries of California Inc. , Collective Bargaining , Employer Liability Issues , Federal Labor Laws , Independent Contractors , Joint Employers , NLRA , NLRB , Unions

NLRB Proposes Rule that Would Deny Undergraduate and Graduate Students the Right to Unionize

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has proposed a new rule which would exclude undergraduate and graduate students from coverage under Section 2(3) of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). Specifically, students who...more

10/1/2019 / Collective Bargaining , Colleges , Graduate Students , NLRA , NLRB , Student Employees , Students , Unions , Universities

In a Win for Labor Unions, Illinois Governor Pritzker Signs Bill Prohibiting Municipalities from Establishing Right-to-Work Zones

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker recently signed into law the Collective Bargaining Freedom Act, formally ending an initiative of former Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner. Effective as of April 12, 2019, the new law limits the...more

4/17/2019 / Collective Bargaining , Municipalities , NLRA , Right to Work , Unions

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