I’ve said this before, if you’re an employer counting on the new NLRB to rubber-stamp your election objections, this one’s a wake-up call. The Board refused to review DaVita’s challenge to an SEIU win at its Vallejo, California dialysis clinic. The company had a legitimate argument: it claimed the union illegally videotaped workers at an…

Enright Seeding just walked away from a years-long unfair labor practice fight — not because it won on the facts, but because the union sued under the wrong clock. Back in 2022, the NLRB found the Iowa construction firm had a traditional 9(a) relationship with an Operating Engineers local — and ruled it broke the…

Atlassian is a non-union tech company. It just got hammered under the federal National Labor Relations Act, anyway. A software engineer spent years griping on internal message boards — about job titles, a new stack-ranking review system, and layoffs. Her last post was a sarcastic jab at the co-CEO in a Slack channel literally named…

Sometimes the most important ruling in a case isn’t about the merits — it’s about the map. The Fifth Circuit quietly granted the NLRB’s request to ship Anheuser-Busch’s challenge over to the Eleventh Circuit. No opinion, no explanation — just an unpublished order handed down by a bipartisan panel of Judges Smith, Southwick, and Douglas.…

If you run a hospital system, this one’s worth watching. On July 15, the Board agreed to review Essentia Health — a case that asks a deceptively simple question: when a union petitions for a unit that mixes acute-care hospitals with non-acute clinics, does the Health Care Rule govern who has to be in the…

For twenty years, tech was the industry unions couldn’t crack. Big comp, unlimited PTO, free lunch, flat hierarchy, engineers who felt like principals rather than employees. The union pitch never landed because the premise never held. Then came AI-driven layoffs, productivity monitoring, and the specific indignity of being replaced by the thing you built. Look…