October 9, 2024
Preventing and Responding to Union Organizing in the Nonprofit World: Strategies, Challenges, and Best Practices (ELA Webinar – October 30, 2024)
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As unions across the U.S. are increasingly targeting nonprofits, management must understand why this is happening and what can be done to prevent and effectively respond to these challenges. In…

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Category: Union Access,
November 2, 2023
NLRB Issues New Joint Employer Rule
Monte Grix,Keith Grossman,Aram V. Karagueuzian,

On October 26, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or the Board) issued a new rule addressing how the Board will assess joint employer status under the National Labor…

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Category: Independent contractors, NLRB, Union Access,
April 9, 2021
Amazon Union Strikes Out; Is Your Company On Deck?
Stephen J. Hirschfeld,

The NLRB announced today that the unionization effort at Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama warehouse was resoundingly defeated. Seventy percent of the votes counted opposed SEIU’s effort to represent this fulfillment center’s…

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Category: Contracts, Union Access,
June 11, 2020
NLRB Declines Jurisdiction Over Religious Schools
Daniel H. Handman,Netta Rotstein,

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decided yesterday in Bethany College that it does not have jurisdiction over faculty at religious schools and colleges, overruling a 2014 decision which held…

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Category: Age Discrimination, Class Actions, Disability Discrimination, Employment Discrimination, Higher Education, NLRB, Religious Accommodation, U.S. Supreme Court, Union Access,
December 15, 2017
The Boeing Company: In a Win for Employers, NLRB Dumps the “Reasonably Construe” Standard for Determining Whether Employee Handbooks’ Violate NLRA Rights
Stefanie M. Renaud,

On December 14, 2017, the National Labor Relations Board (“Board”) – the entity responsible for enforcing the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”) – overturned a handbook standard that has been…

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Category: NLRB, Union Access,
November 28, 2016
Texas Federal Court Permanently Enjoins DOL “Persuader Rule”
Monte Grix,

It has been a busy month for the federal courts in Texas, and a long one for the United States Department of Labor (the “DOL”). As we blogged here last…

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Category: Union Access,
July 11, 2016
Employers Get a Break on Disclosure of Union Organizing Efforts and Advice: Texas Court Blocks Implementation of the DOL’s “Persuader Rule”
Monte Grix,

In this blog, we have previously covered the United States’ Department of Labor’s controversial efforts to effect a significant change to the so-called “Persuader Rule,” a regulation first proposed by…

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Category: Union Access,
May 25, 2016
California Teachers Seek Rehearing Before Full U.S. Supreme Court Regarding Constitutionality of “Agency Shop” Fees for Non-Union Employees
Jayne Benz Chipman,

 Attorneys for the Plaintiff California public sector teachers in the case of Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association have taken the extraordinarily rare step of petitioning the Supreme Court for a…

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Category: Union Access,
California Teachers Seek Rehearing Before Full U.S. Supreme Court Regarding Constitutionality of "Agency Shop" Fees for Non-Union Employees

 Attorneys for the Plaintiff California public sector teachers in the case of Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association have taken the extraordinarily rare step of petitioning the Supreme Court for a…

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Category: Union Access,
May 7, 2013
OSHA Opens The Door To Union Agents
Daniel H. Handman,

If you asked 100 non-union employers  whether they thought they would be required to admit union representatives to inspections of their facilities, probably 99 of them would say no.  It…

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Category: Union Access,