Wage and Hour, Contract Terms, Unions

Strike Averted: Longshoremen, USMX Reach Tentative Agreement on All Terms

Husch Blackwell LLP on 1/10/2025

The International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) and the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX) announced a tentative agreement on a new six-year contract. Both parties described the deal as a “win-win,” addressing the...more

WHIPLASH! A Stunningly Fast Reversal Of Labor Policies

Fox Rothschild LLP on 2/26/2021

It was predictable – even inevitable – that the Biden administration would reverse much of Trump’s labor oeuvre. But no one could have predicted how quickly! In a little more than a month, the administration has:...more

In Adopting “Contract Coverage” Standard, NLRB Gives Employers Greater Flexibility to Act Unilaterally on Subjects Encompassed by...

Epstein Becker & Green on 10/9/2019

As summer turned to fall, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or the “Board”) issued a steady stream of decisions with significant and favorable implications for employers. In the flurry of recent decisions, the Board...more

It’s OK to Be Different- NLRB Rules That Union Represented Employees Are Not Entitled to Midterm Bargaining Over Same Paid Holiday...

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 6/6/2019

Does an employer automatically engage in unlawful discrimination when it grants an improved benefit to its non-union employees but withholds the improvement from its union employees who are covered by a collective bargaining...more

Unlikely Ally: Employer Makes A Meal Out Of CBA Waiver

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 8/22/2018

Seyfarth Synopsis: A collective bargaining agreement, to permissibly waive a negotiable statutory right, must do so in a clear and unmistakable manner, by mentioning either the statutory protection being waived or the statute...more

CBAs Must Specifically State Intent to Arbitrate Statutory Rights

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 2/13/2017

Seyfarth Synopsis: The Court of Appeal has held that unless a collective bargaining agreement includes an explicitly stated, clear and unmistakable, intent to waive the right to a judicial forum for statutory causes of...more