I’m sure you remember last year’s coverage of the UAW’s attempt at organizing all workers at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga, Tennessee, facility. Had VW workers voted to unionize, it would have been the first union in a southern automaker and perhaps open the door for the UAW to organize the foreign manufacturers in the South the way…

A company that sells and services air conditioning systems has a collective bargaining agreement that contains provisions governing workers’ use of company vehicles. The company wanted to change its vehicle policy to mirror that of its parent company. The company informed the union that it intended to implement this revised policy, and the union responded…

Changes to union election rules took effect on April 14, 2015. Now, a company must give the regional director and the union the contact information for eligible voters, including “available personal e-mail addresses, and available home and personal cellular (cell) telephone numbers of all eligible voters.” This poses a challenge for employers that do not…

In 2007, the UAW created a trust fund that provides healthcare benefits for retired UAW members of the “Big Three” automakers. The fund is intended to help control healthcare costs for former workers and their families. This trust was supposed to be the answer to rising healthcare costs for retirees and the shrinking pool of…

The Rio Hotel & Casino had a handbook policy that stated, “Cameras, any type of audio visual recording equipment and/or recording devices may not be used unless specifically authorized for business purposes (e.g. events).” The policy applied to the Rio’s 3,000 employees, about half of whom are represented by a union. The National Labor Relations…

A provider of paratransit services began to question whether its drivers were submitting all of their daily fares. The company conducted an audit, which revealed that some drivers had not remitted all of their fares to the company. The company required those drivers to repay the amounts it had identified as discrepancies. Two drivers refused…