A company held employee meetings every Friday. No big deal. However, at the meeting held six days before a union election, the company, for the first time, gave the employees pizza, large bonus checks and/or gift cards. The company won the election causing the union to file objections alleging improper interference by the company. The…

Local minimum wage ordinances containing exemptions for workers covered by a collective bargaining agreement are popping up across the United States. These laws pressure employers into recognizing unions and boost union organizing, since unions will become the “low cost” way of doing business. Local wage ordinances frequently state that they “do not apply to employees…

Scranton, Pennsylvania, home of Vice President Joe Biden, is bracing for bankruptcy because of overly generous union pension plans. According to Stephen Moore of Investor’s Business Daily Online: The city also increased various fees, such as for garbage collection, by two-thirds. It’s becoming a tax hell. These taxpayer costs are skyrocketing, because the city’s auditors…

The Service Employees Union International (SEIU) has led the way over the past few years in organizing adjunct university professors. Though many other unions have followed in its footsteps, the SEIU has aggressively organized adjunct, part-time, non-tenured, and contingent university faculty members. In response, universities have argued that professors are managerial employees are excluded from…

As the title says, below is newly released guidance from the NLRB. It is not newly created. In fact, the Advice Memorandum was actually created in 2012 but just recently released to the public. Though tardy, it still provides quality insight into the Board’s decision-making process when determining whether social media policies are lawful. Requiring…

Nurses were eligible for two types of wage increments: an across-the-board annual raise and a periodic longevity-based wage increase as individual nurses progressed from one experience level to the next. Both raises were paid in January each year. In January 2014, nine months after the contract expired but while negotiations for a successor agreement were…