On December 15, 2014, in a split decision along party lines, the National Labor Relations Board (“the Board”) in Babcock & Wilcox Construction Co., Inc., overruled 30 year-old precedent that
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NLRB Finalizes "Quickie Election" Rules
We’ve been expressing concern about the National Labor Relations Board’s efforts to implement “quickie election” rules for over a
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Union Agenda Behind Minimum Wage Increase for Los Angeles Hotels
The Los Angeles City Council voted last week to raise the minimum wage for Los Angeles area hotels to $15.37 per hour. The minimum wage will increase for hotels with
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NLRB Increases Employers' Burdens in Responding to Frivolous Information Requests
If you have unionized workers, you know that a union gets to request information that may be relevant to it its functions. This includes information potentially relevant in deciding to
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Plaintiffs, Unions and the NLRB Stretch to Find Joint Employers
In the quest to expand liability for real and imagined violations of employment laws, and to find more and deeper pockets, the latest target for plaintiffs’ lawyers and unions
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9 Key NLRB Decisions Invalidated by the Supreme Court's Noel Canning Decision
When the Supreme Court decided National Labor Relations Board v. Noel Canning on June 26, 2014, it invalidated the cases that the NLRB decided between January 4, 2012 and August
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In Praise of England's 1842 Mines Act
I spend a lot of time on this blog railing against heavy-handed government enforcement and laws intended to benefit employees that actually drive jobs away. So I want to
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Why Would College Athletes Want To Be Union Anyway?
What’s missing from the rash of news reports and blog posts about the NLRB’s ruling allowing scholarship football players at Northwestern to vote on whether to join a union is
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Legal Updates for 2014 and What to Expect When Your Employee is Expecting (Come Hear Me Speak)
February is going to be a busy month for presentations on new legal developments and you have plenty of opportunities to hear me speak.
If you work in the hospitality
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Stifling Employer Free Speech to Aid Union Organizing
Here’s another post from guest blogger Chip Zuver.
The NLRB is again trying to trample employer free speech in order to aid union organizing. They’re attempting to justify changing
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