The owner of Ohio nursing homes sold two homes to another company. The new company took over the homes on July 1st. Under the takeover agreement, all employees were fired on June 30th right before midnight, including nurses’ aides, housekeepers, cooks, and others represented by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). Employees were told of…

Over the past 8 years, Obama’s NLRB has overturned 4,500 years of precedent. The Board has overturned 91 precedents, averaging more than 45 years per decision. The Ambush Election rules alone overturned a combined 454 years of protocol according to a study by the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace and Workplace Policy Institute. Some of…

Kent State University Part-Time faculty members voted unanimously to join the Kent Part Time Faculty Alliance (KPTFA), an affiliate of the United Steelworkers union. Representing over half of all faculty, the 1349 part-time faculty teach at Kent’s main and seven regional campuses. Unlike tenured, full-time faculty, the part-time faculty members had not received a raise…

On November 30th the Mixed Martial Arts Athletes Association was formed exclusively to “fight for the rights of MMA fighters and force UFC’s ownership to dramatically alter the company’s decade plus outrageous treatment of its athletes.” Past champion and proponent of unionizing Georges St. Pierre said “This same thing has happened before in every other…

In an effort to have one cohesive labor law that governs the country, the National Labor Relations Act generally preempts labor regulation on the state and local level. There are exceptions, however, including the ability for states to adopt “right to work” laws. Surprisingly (and thankfully) the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals just ruled that…

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals reviewed the two-step analysis of Specialty Healthcare for determining whether employees share a “community of interest.” Under step one, the NLRB Regional Director performs a community of interest analysis to determine if the proposed unit is appropriate. If appropriate, the party opposing the proposed bargaining unit must demonstrate that…