Witness Statements, Unions, American Baptist

Circuit Court Rejects Attack On NLRB’s New Witness Rule

Proskauer - Labor Relations Update on 6/8/2017

During the last several years, the NLRB has overturned a great deal of existing precedent. Among other changes, the Board has required bargaining over discipline in newly organized units, found graduate students to be...more

Disclosure Danger: Employers Still Stuck With NLRB’s Witness Statement Disclosure Standard

Fisher Phillips on 6/8/2017

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia rejected the chance yesterday to revive long-held precedent which for many years had protected employer witness statements from disclosure to unions before an arbitration...more

NLRB Gives Employers a Hangover: Longstanding Anheuser-Busch decision overruled

Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP on 7/9/2015

More than 35 years after its decision in Anheuser-Busch, Inc., 237 NLRB 982 (1978), the NLRB has reversed course and held that employers may no longer summarily reject union requests for witness statements obtained in...more

NLRB Overrules Longstanding Precedent—Withholding Witness Statements is No Longer a Bright Line Exception

Blank Rome LLP on 7/8/2015

Action Item: The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently held in American Baptist Homes of the West d/b/a Piedmont Gardens that there is no longer a blanket exemption for witness statements from an employer’s Section...more

NLRB Overrules Precedent; Allows Unions Easy Access to Employee Witness Statements

Franczek P.C. on 7/7/2015

For nearly 40 years, the National Labor Relations Board has followed a bright-line rule pursuant to which an employer is privileged to withhold witness statements from unions. In its 1978 Anheuser-Busch Inc. decision, the...more

NLRB Overrules Anheuser-Busch: Witness Statements Now Subject to Disclosure

Cozen O'Connor on 1/8/2013

Last year, we notified you here that the National Labor Relations Board will now consider a general employer rule requiring confidentiality during an internal investigation into an employee complaint to be an unfair labor...more