Unite Here Local 25 asked a Manhattan court to help identify the person who allegedly slashed its inflatable protest rat “Scabby” outside the grand re-opening of Greenwich Village restaurant Babbo. The union wants video footage from inside and outside Babbo, communications about Scabby from Babbo’s owners, credit card receipts and reservation records that could identify…

The NLRB won enforcement of its Cemex bargaining order at the Ninth Circuit in April — then immediately filed a petition asking the court to vacate part of its own judgment. The piece at issue: the Thryv remedy requiring make-whole relief for direct and foreseeable pecuniary harms beyond traditional backpay. After the Ninth Circuit enforced…

A West Virginia electrical contractor just got hit with an 8(a)(3) violation for laying off two union electricians nine days before asking the union to refer ten more. Here’s what happened. Michael Bishop got sent home from a construction project because a supervisor thought the cough drop in his mouth meant he was sick. The…

The NLRB just ordered Kuraray America to bargain with a unit of lab analysts it refused to recognize. The case is a textbook run of the “technical refusal to bargain” playbook. Last October, lab analysts at Kuraray’s La Porte, Texas plant voted in a self-determination election to join an existing production and maintenance unit represented…

Sectoral Bargaining Could Double U.S. Worker Coverage — and Most Employers Have No Plan for It The Center for American Progress just modeled what would happen if the United States adopted sectoral bargaining — a system that sets minimum standards across an industry while still allowing workplace-level negotiations to build on those standards. The conclusion:…

Cannabis Labor Peace Mandates Survive (For Now) A federal judge in the Southern District of New York just kept alive a constitutional and preemption challenge to New York’s requirement that cannabis companies maintain labor peace agreements (LPAs) with unions. Hybrid NYC, a dispensary company, sued the state cannabis board arguing the LPA requirement is unconstitutional…