Five years ago, when 200 New York City fast food workers first walked off the job for $15 an our and union rights, nobody gave us a shot. Since then, we’ve spread this movement to every corner of the country and beyond fast food,” said Steven Suffridge, a Fight for $15 organizer. Target recently announced…

Peter Robb, President Trump’s pick as the next general counsel for the National Labor Relations Board, told a Senate panel that he would uphold the “core values” of federal labor law. He said that would include the right to “refrain” from union activity. Robb’s statement indicates he would make it a priority for the Board…

Cargill has a “no cell phone” policy in its employee guide. The policy provides that all employees must be attentive and alert to their jobs, and are not allowed to read books, magazines, newspapers, or other materials while on the clock.  From 2014 to 2016, the grievant was cited multiple times for his cell phone…

Workers represented by the Laborers’ International union of North America had been getting job assignments involving forklifts through the Construction Employers Association. But, Operating Engineers Local 18 sought to get that work. The National Labor Relations Board twice said the Laborers should get the work and ultimately ordered the Operating Engineers – which had been…

A Coca-Cola bottler unlawfully fired a union steward who used profanity in front of company executives and dozens of employees. The ALJ said the National Labor Relations Act gives employees “some leeway for impulsive behavior,” and the decision illustrates that profanity in the workplace isn’t likely to take an employee outside the protection of federal…

File this under “Unions can Make Life Difficult”. A company’s attendance policy tallies points for an absence that an employee accrues, regardless of the reason for the absence. Any employee who accumulates 10 points under the absenteeism system in a rolling 12 month period is terminated. An employee telephones his supervisor and informed him that…