When Cooper Tire & Rubber Company brought in replacement workers during a lockout, picketing strikers shouted a range of obscenities. The NLRB’s tolerance of obscenities in this context is well
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NLRB Continues Protecting the Rights of Pottymouths
Warning: This post contains words that you used to not be able to say on TV.
The NLRB believes that vulgarity in connection with organizing campaigns is A-OK. As reported
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NLRB Says Employer Email Can Be Used for Organizing
In keeping with its clear pro-union agenda, late last year, the NLRB overruled its past precedent and held that employers who grant employees access to their email systems must now
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Top 10 Things for California Employers to Do in 2015
Every employer in California needs legal help at some point. The laws are too complex and the penalties too severe for employers
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NLRB Alters Post-Arbitral Deferral Standards
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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