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Over the past year, Fisher Phillips’ exclusive Union Organizing Activity Map continues to provide valuable insights into union trends across the country. This interactive tool aggregates data from the National Labor Relations...more
Davis Wright Tremaine's Labor and Employment Services group is pleased to invite you to a client webinar designed to help values-driven organizations navigate union recognition and bargaining. This informative session will...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
Following a landmark NLRB ruling last year, the answer is yes. For the last several decades, the process for union recognition of an employer’s workforce was largely unchanged....more
The new union representation process installed by the National Labor Relations Board unsurprisingly led to an astronomical increase in election petitions filed in the first half of FY 2024. The Labor Board also saw a...more
While you may think labor unions only impact large corporations or specific industries, FP’s new Union Organizing Activity Map actually shows that smaller businesses are more likely to confront an organizing drive. The map...more
Labor Law Insider veterans Adam Doerr and Rufino Gaytán join host Tom Godar to discuss the impact of the National Labor Relations Board’s 2023 decisions. How does the Cemex decision, encouraging union representation without...more
When faced with potential employee organizing activity, some employers react by trying to address worker grievances through alternatives to union representation. Sometimes these approaches involve establishing an internal...more
Husch Blackwell partners Tom O’Day and Tyler Paetkau join Labor Law Insider host Tom Godar in Part II of this discussion of the impact of new Cemex decision by the NLRB. Suddenly, minor violations of the National Labor...more
The NLRB just drastically changed how employers can respond to union recognition demands by creating a new framework that will determine when employers are required to bargain with unions without a representation election....more
Governor Newsom recently signed a bill into law clarifying that a single alternative to the traditional secret ballot method – an alternative known as the “card check” election – may be used for unions to organize at...more
When Apple’s Penn Square Mall retail store in Oklahoma City voted on Friday to unionize, it became the tech giant’s second location in the United States to do so. Is this a trend for other Oklahoma employers? Count on...more
The death of union representation was probably not exaggerated—that is, before the pandemic. Now, with employers desperate to recruit and retain employees in a robust labor market, wages seeing the highest percentage...more
An employer can generally refuse a union’s demand for recognition and insist on a secret ballot vote, according to established federal labor law authority, but relying on this authority seems somewhat risky at the moment. For...more
Union efforts to organize workers are on the rise. Most notably, several high-profile employers are at the forefront of recent union campaigns, including Amazon, Starbucks and now Apple. Employees at Amazon’s Staten Island,...more
The Biden administration is deploying a number of initiatives in its ongoing efforts “to be the most pro-union administration in American history” – but the current effort to resurrect the decades-old Joy Silk doctrine, which...more
The White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment recently issued a Report to the President that lays the groundwork for significant changes in the labor relations field over the next several years. When the...more
The Labor Law Insider takes on the recharged union optimism and activity in this podcast episode. Moderator Tom Godar is joined by members of Husch Blackwell’s Labor Law team, Terry Potter, Tom O’Day, and Rufino Gaytán, to...more
General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, Jennifer Abruzzo, is already on her way to accomplishing one of the objectives she laid out in her recent Advice-Memorandum 21-04. In the GC’s memo, she identified a...more
The NLRB has the authority to order an employer to reopen a business it finds was closed for discriminatorily anti-union reasons. In RAV Truck & Trailer Repairs, Inc., 369 NLRB No. 36 (Mar. 3, 2020), the NLRB did just that....more
Recent media reports have covered the relatively new phenomenon of minority labor unions. These are not traditional unions in the sense of formal organizing, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) certification, and exclusive...more
A Biden presidency will surely bring changes to federal labor law under the National Labor Relations Act, the primary law that governs employee collective activity, labor-management relations, collective bargaining, and union...more
The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) will be 85 years old on July 5, 2020. On July 5, 1935, the Wagner Act was signed into law by President Franklin Roosevelt. That law gave...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: The National Labor Relations Board issued a decision in Wynn Las Vegas, LLC, 369 N.L.R.B. No. 91 (May 29, 2020) that redefines “solicitation” to include any employee activity encouraging other employees to...more
Happy #WorkforceWednesday to all employers. Here’s the week’s top workforce management and employment law news: One Giant Leap for Tech? (Video above) Kickstarter employees voted to unionize last week. This is the first big...more