Contract Negotiations, Labor Relations

NLRB Requires Clear Waiver of Rights in CBA to Avoid Bargaining Obligation

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP on 12/13/2024

When a union and employer negotiate the terms of a collective bargaining agreement (CBA), it is virtually impossible for the parties to predict and account for every issue that may affect the working relationship between them...more

The Labor Law Insider - Collective Bargaining: Ins and Outs, Nuts and Bolts, Part I

Husch Blackwell LLP on 8/1/2024

Our Labor Law Insiders tackle the tricky business of collective bargaining in parts one and two of this Labor Law Insider. Host Tom Godar shares the microphone with Husch Blackwell attorneys Jon Anderson and Adam Doerr who...more

[Webinar] 2023 NLRB Year in Review - December 19th, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CST

Adams & Reese on 12/14/2023

Adams and Reese Partner Michael MacHarg will lead a one hour CLE webinar to discuss important updates from the National Labor Relations Board over the past year. Registration is free. The webinar will take place Tuesday,...more

Post-Labor Day Wrap Up: What NLRB’s 2023 Decisions Mean for Employers

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 9/22/2023

In the weeks surrounding Labor Day 2023, the National Labor Relations Board overturned precedent with decisions and rules significantly impacting both union and non-union employers. The result is labor laws encouraging both...more

NLRB Says Dues Must Be Collected Post CBA, Reverses Course Once Again

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 10/11/2022

In a decision dated September 30, 2022, the National Labor Relations Board ruled that employers must continue to collect voluntarily authorized union dues from the paychecks of employees after the expiration of the...more

Third Circuit Rules That Arbitration Agreements in CBAs Without Durational Clauses do not Survive the Expiration of the CBAs

FordHarrison on 4/15/2022

Executive Summary: It is quite rare when a three-judge panel on a court of appeals overrules prior precedent. Yet, that is exactly what happened on March 30, 2022, in Pittsburgh Mailers Union Local 22 v. PG Publishing Co....more

The Cons Of The PRO Act

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP on 3/16/2021

The Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2021 (also known as the “PRO Act”) is back with its laundry list of organized labor’s most-wanted government handouts. After decades of declining membership, unions see the PRO Act...more

NLRB Allows Employers to Stop Deducting Union Dues After Expiration of the Collective Bargaining Agreement

Littler on 12/24/2019

In Valley Hospital Medical Center, Inc. d/b/a Valley Hospital Medical Center, 368 NLRB No. 139 (2019), the National Labor Relations Board reversed yet another decision issued during the prior administration, and returned to...more

Union Dues Deductions Not Required After Contract Expiration

Ballard Spahr LLP on 12/18/2019

Continuing its shift toward more employer-friendly workplace decisions, the National Labor Relations Board (Board or NLRB) in Valley Hospital Medical Center held that employers may cease deducting union dues from employees’...more

Union Dues Collection May Terminate Once CBA Expires

Fisher Phillips on 12/17/2019

The National Labor Relations Board just decided that employers have the right to cease union dues collections once the relevant collective bargaining agreement expires, again restoring balance to the labor relations...more

NLRB Restores 50+ Year-Old Precedent: Employers (Once Again) May Unilaterally Stop Deducting Union Dues Upon Contract Expiration

Proskauer - Labor Relations Update on 12/17/2019

Mid-December is always a time where one can expect significant decisions to issue from the NLRB. In recent years, we saw the Board, among other decisions, abandon the much criticized “micro unit” standard and the equally...more

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