Like Backyard Football when We were Kids, NLRB Allows a “Do-Over”
By Management Labor Lawyer | | NLRB
A union election was underway. One group of employees alleged co-worker Williams threatened to hang any employee who did not vote for the union “like they did…back in the 60s”. The company fired Williams. Williams filed an unfair labor practice charge over his termination. At hearing, the two employees maintained they heard the threat while…
Read More Unions Won’t Like Having to Tell Objectors All this Detail about Where Union Dues Go
By Management Labor Lawyer | | NLRB
In March 2017 the National Labor Relations Board found that a Teamsters local violated the National Labor Relations Act by failing to provide sufficient information about the financial expenditures of the local and its affiliates to workers who exercised their rights to object to paying union dues and fees. Specifically, the Board ruled that the…
Read More NLRB Enforces Subpoena about Alleged Joint Employer Relationship with Nothing More than Mere Allegation of Joint Employer Status.
By Management Labor Lawyer | | NLRB
The National Labor Relations Board has denied petitions to revoke subpoenas that were issued by an NLRB Regional Director to two companies seeking information about a possible joint employer relationship between the two employers. You read that right. The two pro-labor NLRB Board Members enforced the subpoenas despite the union’s failure to articulate any facts…
Read More President Trump’s Proposed Budget Eliminates Union-Funding Harwood Grant
By Management Labor Lawyer | | NLRB, Uncategorized
President Trump’s budget slashed the Department of Labor’s funding from $12.2 billion this year to $9.6 billion next year. This equals a 21% cut. On the chopping block is the DOL’s Susan Harwood Training Grant Program. You don’t know what the Susan Harwood Grant is? I didn’t either. The Susan Harwood grant gives out grants…
Read More Another Day Another NLRB Decision Invalidating Arbitration Agreements
By Management Labor Lawyer | | NLRB
An NLRB Administrative Law Judge issued a decision against a Domino’s franchisee for violating the National Labor Relations Act. The franchisee required employees, as a condition of employment, to agree to pursue legal disputes with the restaurant owners in binding arbitration on an individual basis. Thus, the employees waived their rights to pursue class and…
Read More Will New NLRB Stop Protecting Unlawful Employee Conduct?
By Management Labor Lawyer | | NLRB, Uncategorized
Something is wrong when the EEOC can find an employer liable for tolerating racist or sexist remarks by employees, and the NLRB can find an employer liable for not tolerating racist or sexist remarks by employees. But that is the quandary employers are left with after eight years of watching the Obama NLRB change laws…
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