As its ranks decline, unions have turned to alternative approaches to organizing. One of their new tactics is the Worker Center...
Employee use of social media, like Facebook or Twitter, is a hot topic for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The NLRB has found numerous employers' restrictions on employees’ use of social media to discuss their workplace to be overly broad and has...
After the failure of the Employee Free Choice Act, aka Card Check, unions shifted to regulation rather than legislation to achieve their objectives. However, unions have once again been discussing legislation, in this case a push to make collective bargaining a new “civil...
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In Specialty Healthcare, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) threw out decades of precedent regarding what is an “appropriate” bargaining unit. Abandoning the long-established preference for units representing all workers in a class or craft,...
The NLRB’s expedited election rule was struck down by D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals on technical grounds, but the Board may simply republish the rule once it has a legally valid quorum, which will again threaten the ability of workers to get complete information about a...
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is considering a rule establishing off-site, electronic voting for union certification elections. This proposal would take workers out of the privacy of the voting booth, creating the same potential for coercion as the...