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The National Labor Relations Act is a United States federal statute enacted in 1935 to prevent labor strife by encouraging collective bargaining, protecting concerted activity and curtailing certain unfair labor... more +

Green Growth and Labor Harmony: Navigating Labor Peace Agreements in the Booming Cannabis Industry

Amundsen Davis LLC on 4/3/2024

As legalization of cannabis has spread, profits have grown in the 25 states that allow for the retail sale of cannabis for recreational use, and labor unions have found great opportunity for getting a lift from the cannabis...more

Political Activism, COVID-19, And Labor Law

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP on 9/18/2020

This information could come in handy for employers. The National Labor Relations Board has made public three Advice letters dealing with the two hottest topics of our times: Political activism, and COVID-19. In each case, a...more

UFCW is Organizing Cannabis Workers: Labor and Operators Each Have Aces Up Their Sleeve

Foley Hoag LLP - Cannabis and the Law on 2/28/2020

The Boston Globe has a well-reported story out this morning on the United Food and Commercial Workers’ unionization campaign at iAnthus-owned Mayflower Medicinals’ grow facility in Massachusetts. It’s no secret to operators...more

NLRB Confirms that Intermittent Strikes in Furtherance of an Unchanging Goal are Unprotected

Burr & Forman on 8/12/2019

In Walmart Stores, Inc., 368 NLRB No. 24 (July 25, 2019), a majority of the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or “Board”) reaffirmed that a union’s intermittent strike scheme is unprotected where the short duration...more

NLRB Permits Off-Duty Employees to Picket on Employer Property

Franczek P.C. on 10/7/2016

An employer’s ability to prohibit picketing on its property was dealt a serious blow when the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently ruled in Capital Medical Center that an acute care hospital violated Section 8(a)(1)...more

When Is The Medium (NOT) The Message? NLRB Prohibits Acute Care Hospital From Banning Picketing Unless Distressful To Patients

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 10/6/2016

In Capital Medical Center 364 NLRB No. 69 (August 12, 2016), a majority of the Board recently concluded that a hospital violated Section 8(a)(1) of the NLRA, by threatening to discipline and arrest picketers and by summoning...more

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