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I have come to know and believe the adage that: the only thing constant is change. In less than 30 days, we will bid farewell to 2024. As we usher in 2025 with great expectations, we know that change is on the horizon. And in...more
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) made waves with its November 13, 2024 decision in Amazon.com Services LLC, 373 NLRB No. 136 (2024) overturning Babcock & Wilcox Co. and 75 years of precedent that had allowed...more
In a recent decision, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) reversed a 76-year-old precedent and held that employers violate the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) when they compel employees to attend meetings where the...more
On November 13, 2024, the National Labor Relations Board ruled that Amazon.com Services committed an unfair labor practice by requiring employees to attend a work time meeting to hear Amazon’s views on union representation....more
Going against decades of precedent, the National Labor Relations Board (“the Board”), in Amazon.com, 373 NLRB No. 136 (2024), held that employers violate federal labor law when they require employee attendance at meetings...more
The National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) issued a decision finding that an employer violates the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”) by requiring employees to attend meetings in which the employer expresses its views on...more
On November 13, 2024, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a decision in Amazon.com Services LLC, holding that "captive-audience meetings" are unlawful under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). This decision...more
On November 13, 2024, in a landmark decision, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled that “captive audience” meetings — where an employer requires workers to attend a meeting in which the employer expresses its...more
In an apparent effort to publish as many worker-friendly opinions as possible before the transition of power from President Joe Biden to President-elect Donald Trump, the National Labor Relations Board (the “Board”) issued...more
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has overturned a 1948 precedent and declared that an employer commits an unfair labor practice in violation of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) when it requires employees to...more
On November 13, 2024, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a landmark decision in the case of Amazon Services LLC, banning so-called “captive audience meetings,” a tool regularly used by employers in response to...more
On November 13, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a decision in Amazon.com Services LLC, 373 NLRB No. 136 (2024) ruling that an employer violates the National Labor Relations Act by requiring employees under...more
Throwing out 75 Years of precedent in a single decision, on November 13, 2024, in Amazon.com Services LLC, the National Labor Relations Board (the “Board”) the Board overruled the seminal case of Babcock & Wilcox Co., 77 NLRB...more
On October 23, 2024, Teamsters Amazon National Negotiating Committee (“Teamsters”) filed an unfair labor practice charge (“ULP”) with the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) alleging that, within the past six months,...more
As we previously discussed in June 2022, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or the “Board”) pursued a 10(j) injunction against a Starbucks in Buffalo, New York after it fired workers for allegedly engaging in union...more
Despite the always shifting pendulum of labor law, unionization rates in the private sector have decreased and remained low since the 1970’s. However, a recent surge of unionization efforts, coupled with unique economic...more
A great American songwriter and singer once wrote ”picket lines and picket signs, don't punish me with brutality, talk to me so you can see, what's going on...” –Marvin Gaye, 1971...more
Tom Godar, of counsel at Husch Blackwell, and host of the Labor Law Insider, explores the impact of the successful union election campaign at Amazon’s Staten Island distribution center. This is in contrast to the ongoing...more
On August 2, 2021, the high profile union campaign at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama took another interesting turn, as a hearing officer with the NLRB recommended that the Board throw out the earlier union election...more
On April 9, 2021, all eyes were on Bessemer, Alabama as votes were counted in the most highly publicized union vote in recent memory. President Biden, politicians, activists, nonprofits, and celebrities all weighed in, and...more
On Friday, April 9, 2021, workers for Amazon in Alabama voted by an overwhelming majority to remain union-free, thereby preventing Amazon's first union-organized facility in the United States. According to organized labor,...more
Against the backdrop of a new administration, an evolving workforce, and a changing economy brought about by the pandemic, the landscape for union organizing has radically changed in 2021. While the nation’s attention is...more
Amazon employees in Bessemer, Alabama, will soon decide if they want to remain union-free or to unionize. About 5,000 employees who work at an Amazon Distribution Center will be eligible to vote in an upcoming union...more
In This Issue: - Supreme Court Rejects Security Screening Time Pay - NLRB Finalizes Union Election Rule - NLRB Reverses Employers’ Ability To Ban Employee Nonwork Email Use - EEOC Challenges Employer...more