General Motors Company’s Chief Executive Mary Barra said in meetings with Ohio lawmakers that the future of the Lordstown, Ohio factor, slated for closure, can turn on the outcome of labor talks. Four factories in the U.S. and one in Canada could be shuttered by the end of 2019 if the automaker and its unions do not come up with…

A former United Auto Workers administrative aide was sentenced to prison for her part in an embezzlement scheme where millions of dollars were diverted from a training center to union and automotive executives. This is a story we’ve covered multiple times on this blog, e.g. here and here. The UAW-Fiat Chrysler National Training Center was used…

Students at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa are asking the National Labor Relations Board to end their petition to expand a union of dining workers to the entire student workforce. The union would have been the country’s first campus-wide student union at a private college. The students filed their withdrawal on December 13 “in recognition of…

Unions targeting Tesla have migrated from California to New York. The campaign to organize about 300 production and maintenance employees at the Western New York facility is a partnership between the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the United Steel Workers. the USW organizer said “They want a fair wage that’s reflective of the state investment that…

In late 2017, Congress reduced the corporate tax rate. In January 2018, an Employer informed its non-union employees that “the new corporate tax rate will produce a financial benefit . . . and the Company wants to extend that benefit to our employees via a one-time bonus and an increase in the 401K match.”  The Employer’s announcement stated…

The National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Peter Robb issued General Counsel Memorandum 19-02, reducing case processing time. This will affect virtually every charge handled by the NLRB. The primary change is the end of agency wide case processing deadlines. Previously, the NLRB’s Division of Operations Management in Washington, D.C. required the Regions to submit reports…