Regardless upon which side of the argument you sit, the statistics of the first 150 days post-ambush elections will help your argument. Management lawyers argue that the dire warnings were well founded. Pro-labor law reformists say the warnings were much ado about nothing. You should make up your own mind after learning the stats. Union…

Union representation elections are usually done in person at the workplace. When the workforce is scattered or works odd shifts the union and the National Labor Relations Board likes to use mail-in ballots as a way to ensure all voting employees have an equal chance to vote. Oddly, an NLRB Regional Director declined to count…

I am often asked these days whether I think Ohio will become Right to Work. My answer is unequivocally the same each time. No. While I am a supporter of employees having the right to decide whether they want to be in a union, early results from Indiana’s recent foray into being right to work…

Two thousand workers at a manufacturing plant in Northern Wisconsin have been walking the picket line since mid-November. Such a strike would have been commonplace a decade ago. Nowadays, it’s a rarity. While labor has become adept at hit-and-run publicity strikes like the “Fight for $15” one-day stunts, major strikes of over 1,000 workers are…

The National Labor Relations Board has the power to seek injunctive relief against employers. Injunctive relief, like a temporary restraining order, is a remedy that makes the company immediately stop doing something while the parties determine if the company is allowed to do that something in the first place. Here, the company declared impasse during…

After decades of declining membership, unionization rates are increasing thanks in large part to the unionization of non-traditional workforces. In the past, unions found success organizing workers in manufacturing, hospitality, and construction trades. Today, its success is found through technology workers, adjunct professors, digital media, and if unions have their way, Uber drivers. Huffington Post…