More than 50 businesses and trade groups are asking Congress to pass legislation to repeal the National Labor Board’s new joint employer standard. As a reminder, in August 2015, the NLRB ruled that “indirect” and “potential” control over workers’ terms and conditions makes a company a joint employer. This rule change exposed a broad range…

A Tesla factory worker says he wants to form a union. Tesla says he’s a salt who is being paid by the UAW to organize the company from within. According to the worker, the company “doesn’t function as well as it could” He claims employees work long hours, face excessive mandatory overtime, and are prone…

After eight years of a very pro-union president and the most pro-labor National Labor Relations Board since the Roosevelt Administration, union membership in the United States is at an all-time low. To make matters worse for unions, in 2016, 43% of union households voted for Donald Trump despite labor leaders funneling tens of millions of…

The National Labor Relations Board held that an employer did not violate a union worker’s rights during a police investigation of the worker’s gun violence threat by not providing the worker with a union representative because the investigation was conducted by the police, not the company. Here’s the back story: An EMT learned that the…

About 60% of adults have a favorable view of labor unions and businesses according to a Pew Research Center survey. This is a 10% increase since March 2015, and favorable opinions of each are at their highest levels in nearly a decade. In the “not really news” category: Democrats and Democrat-leaning independents are much more…

Many union leaders, like Stuart Appelbaum, the head of the most powerful retail workers union (Retail Wholesale, and Department Store Union (RWDSU)) are optimistic about the future. While membership at many unions has shrunk, Appelbaum’s RWDSU has had recent notable victories in the generally hard-to-organize retail world by unionizing employees at H&M, Zara, Duane Reade,…