A divided Board just gave employers breathing room at the bargaining table — and then showed exactly where it ends. The case is Inland Waters Pollution Control, Inc., Case 07-CA-277239, decided July 29, 2026. Inland is a Michigan pollution control company. During contract negotiations, the company made statements about an employee filing “bullshit” grievances. In…

And it got called a union buster for asking employees to vote in private. Wiki Workers United, affiliated with the Communications Workers of America, asked the Wikimedia Foundation for voluntary recognition based on authorization cards. On July 27, 2026, the Foundation said no. Its public statement called an NLRB secret ballot election the “appropriate path…

Workers United is asking The North Face and USA Climbing to cut ties with Movement Gyms. That is mostly lawful. Workers United, an SEIU affiliate, represents more than 500 workers at 10 unionized locations of Movement Gyms. Movement is the largest climbing gym operator in the country, runs 30-plus locations, is headquartered in Colorado, and…

The Sharpest Attack on the Faster Labor Contracts Act Came From a Union Electrician Forty years in the trade, and he doesn’t want Washington writing his contract either. Steve Sydow, a union electrician in Ironton, Ohio published a guest column in The Ironton Tribune on July 16 opposing the Faster Labor Contracts Act. He’s asking…

Private-sector union density is 5.9%. Capital strategy is how unions punch well above that number. Jarrett Skorup of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy made the argument: as membership shrinks, unions increasingly work through pension fund ESG investing to move corporate behavior. He contends the tactic buys influence far out of proportion to actual membership,…

That one sentence is where most decertification efforts fall apart. Michael VanDervort wrote a decertification primer for SHRM — “When Employees Want Out: A Union Decertification Primer.” If you have a represented workforce, read the whole thing. Here’s what stuck with me. His first move is to separate three things employers constantly blur together. An…