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Is Darth Vader Luring AI to the Dark Side of Labor Law? Why Latest Union Battle Means Employers Should Proceed with Caution

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A video game developer needs to hope that the Force is with it as it squares off with a union over the use of artificial intelligence in the workplace. SAG-AFTRA just filed an unfair labor practice (ULP) charge against Epic...more

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC

The National Labor Relations Board 2024 Year-End Review

The hits just kept coming from the National Labor Relations Board in 2024. The final year of the Biden board produced a flurry of decisions that kept labor practitioners on their toes. It seemed that each month, there was a...more

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NLRB Returns to “Clear and Unmistakable Waiver” Test for Assessing Employer Unilateral Changes

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In Endurance Environmental Solutions, the National Labor Relations Board returned to the “clear and unmistakable waiver” standard for determining whether an employer may make changes to terms and conditions of employment...more

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NLRB Weakens Ability of Employers to Rely on Management Rights Clauses in Collective Bargaining Agreements . . . For Now

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On December 10, 2024, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or “the Board”) took advantage of its Democratic majority in the waning days of the Biden administration to issue its decision in Endurance Environmental...more

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NLRB Waters Down Management Rights In Latest Union-Friendly Board Decision, But Potential Republican Board Majority In Early 2025...

Since 2019, employers have relied heavily on the management rights clauses in collective bargaining agreements to make unilateral workplace changes involving operational decisions.  They did so with the protection of the...more

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Uphill Battle for Employer Unilateral Changes as NLRB Returns to “Clear and Unmistakable Waiver” Standard

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The National Labor Relations Board returned to prior precedent, making it more difficult for employers to defend against unfair labor practice charges alleging a unilateral change in violation of the National Labor Relations...more

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Labor Board Makes it Harder for Employers to Make Unilateral Workplace Changes: 5 Steps for Employers

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In a significant move, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) just overruled a Trump-era ruling and made it more challenging for unionized employers to make workplace changes without bargaining over the change with the...more

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The Pendulum Swings Again: NLRB (Re)Adopts “Clear and Unmistakeable Waiver” Standard in Duty to Bargain Cases

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On December 10, 2024, the National Labor Relations Board issued a decision in Endurance Environmental Solutions, LLC, 373 NLRB No. 141 (2024), a case in which it reconsidered and reestablished the standard against which an...more

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NLRB Places Further Restrictions on Employers: Captive Audience Meetings Restricted

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The National Labor Relations Board (the Board) voted 3-1 (along party lines, with Member Kaplan dissenting) on November 13, 2024, to prohibit so-called "captive audience" meetings.1 In doing so, the Board overturned...more

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The NLRB Decision on Mandatory Employer Meetings Has Other, Less Obvious Implications for Employers

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The recent NLRB decision finding that mandatory employer meetings involving unionization discussions are unlawful includes other points that will affect employers....more

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NLRB Overturns Two Decades-Old Precedents Relating to What Employers Can Say to Employees Regarding Views on Unions

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With a new administration looming, the National Labor Relations Board (“Board”) recently issued two decisions that radically depart from established law about what an employer can say and how an employer can lawfully meet...more

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NLRB Issues Two Decisions Limiting Management's Ability to Contest Unionization

During union representation campaigns, it is common for employers to advise employees of the downsides posed by union recognition. The current National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has criticized these tactics, alleging that...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Not Your Grandparents’ Unions: NLRB Sees Large Rise in Organizing Petitions

The National Labor Relations Board and unions have been busy. The NLRB received 3,286 union election petitions during FY 2024, up 27% since FY 2023 (when the NLRB received 2,593 petitions) and more than double the number of...more

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Don’t Let Unions Sink Their Teeth into Your Property Rights

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July is the best month of the year. It’s warm everywhere, even in Chicago. I look forward to the al fresco dining, outdoor concerts, neighborhood block parties, cookouts with family, and the beach. And sharks. July seems to...more

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NLRB Rescinds 2020 “Election Protection Rule”

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As anticipated, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) rescinded its April 1, 2020 Election Protection Rule, replacing it with the so-called “Fair Choice-Employee Voice Final Rule” on July 26, 2024....more

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When Lawful Proposals Become Unlawful Bargaining Conduct: The Board Holds An Employer’s Adherence to Lawful Proposals Nonetheless...

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Seyfarth Synopsis: Reversing a Trump Board case, the Biden Board recently found that an employer engaged in bad-faith bargaining based on adhering to its bargaining proposals—despite (1) the employer engaging in no unlawful...more

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U.S. District Court Grants 10(j) Injunctive Relief and Requires Employer to Bargain With Union That Lost Secret Ballot Election

On May 14, 2024, the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts granted a petition for interim injunctive relief under Section 10(j) of the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”) that was filed by the...more

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Federal Court Invalidates NLRB’s Joint Employer Standard

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Update: As we indicate below, the NLRB’s final rule regarding the standard to determine joint-employer status under the NLRA was met with a challenge in the court system, and on March 8, 2024, just days before the applicable...more

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Federal Court Strikes Down NLRB’s Expansive “Joint Employment” Standard

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On the eve of its going into effect, a federal court struck down the expansive joint-employment standard announced by the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or “Board”) last fall. At issue is who may be considered a...more

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Dartmouth Basketball Players Cleared for Unionization Vote

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Although it is not yet March, colleges and universities may nevertheless find themselves in the midst of a new kind of “madness” as they face the reality that certain collegiate athletes now constitute employees who can...more

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The NLRB Changes the Rules: The CEMEX Decision

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CEMEX CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS PACIFIC, LLC - In August of this year, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) issued a seminal decision in Cemex Construction Materials Pacific, LLC, 372 NLRB No. 130 (2023), in which the...more

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NLRB General Counsel Offers Some Clarity on Responding to Union Organizing Demands for Bargaining

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The National Labor Relations Board’s general counsel recently published a memo, along with other resources, to clarify parts of the Board’s recent decision dealing with union organizing demands for bargaining orders.1 The...more

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NLRB Announces Broadened Standard for Determining Joint-Employer Status

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On October 27, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) published a final rule that establishes a new standard for determining whether two or more employers, as defined by the National Labor Relations Act, may be...more

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Judge Issues First Post-Cemex Bargaining Order Despite Employer Winning Union Election

As we previously reported and discussed here, the Cemex Construction Materials Pacific, LLC ruling has dramatically changed the threshold that will prompt the National Labor Relation Board (“NLRB”) to issue mandatory...more

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The Labor Law Insider - Decertification of Union Bargaining Unit: What’s Happening Today, Part II

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In this episode of the Labor Law Insider, attorneys Adam Doerr, Trecia Moore, and host Tom Godar continue their discussion of decertification petitions, focusing on some of the practical implications related to...more

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