The NLRB recently addressed a common practice among unions called secondary boycotting. A secondary boycott is a union tactic where the union pressures innocent parties to stop doing business with a targeted employer. The Culinary Union in Las Vegas has aggressively implemented secondary boycotts against non-union casinos, hotels, and restaurants. For example, the Union has…

The United Automobile Workers membership has grown to 400,000 people. This is the largest the union has been since 2008. UAW’s members include more than just auto workers. The union has successfully recruited members from higher education institutions, such as teaching assistants and graduate students at a number of universities, casino workers, and other non-traditional…

McDonald’s workers recently filed complaints with the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in 19 cities alleging burns from popping grease, lack of protective equipment, and other workplace hazards. The complaints are a tool to exert public pressure on McDonald’s as fast food workers campaign for $15 an hour wages and unionization. The Service…

The collective bargaining agreement between the company and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) union prohibited “picketing of any of the Company’s premises” during the term of the contract. The union had a long-standing practice of commencing informational picketing before the expiration of each previous contract. Recently, the union passed out picket signs to…

Wisconsin recently became the 25th state to go right-to-work. Now exactly half of the states in the country allow employees to opt-out of paying union dues even though the union has an obligation to represent everyone in their workplace. As you can imagine, unionization rates in right-to-work states are far below rates in compulsory unionism…

An employer found a bag of marijuana beneath empty chairs where an employee and co-worker had recently sat. The employer investigated the situation, individually interviewing the employee and co-worker. During the investigation, the employee invoked her Weingarten rights and requested a union representative. The Company obliged. After the interview, the employee went to lunch and…