The paragraph below is taken verbatim from the August 25th newsletter published by NLRB Region 13 (Chicago). From a management lawyer’s perspective, this appears to be a thinly veiled threat of intimidation by the Board for companies to forego some of their rights and blindly yield to the Board’s allegations. Nonetheless, it does a good…

When Padma Lakshmi, host of Top Chef, left the show’s usual set in Los Angeles to film on location in Boston, she and her staff were harassed, threatened, and had their property damaged by Boston Teamsters Local 25 because the show hired non-union local production assistants to drive the cast and crew instead of using…

Tiffany and Co. jewelry company had handbook policies that violated the National Labor Relations Act. One of Tiffany’s policies (the wages policy) prohibited employees from disclosing “information concerning the wages, benefits, or other terms of employment paid by the Company to employees in general, with respect to specific positions, or specific individuals.” Another policy (the…

The International Association of Machinists union recently sued Spirit Aerosystems, accusing the company of violating the collective bargaining agreement through its plan to sell off part of its operations and outsource union-represented jobs at its Wichita facilities. According to the Union, Spirit is seeking to sell a key fabrication operation and use outside contractors to…

Kellogg Co. legally locked out over 200 union employees for nine months because a bona fide impasse had been reached after the union refused to negotiate proposals over mandatory subjects of bargaining. Specifically, Kellogg declared impasse, timely notified the Union of its demands so that the Union could evaluate whether to accept them and prevent…

Although many controversial cases were decided by the radical pro-union NLRB between the end of 2011 and mid-2013, what follows are some of the more notable decisions that are likely no longer the law – until, at least, the current Board has the opportunity to make them law again. In Re Piedmont Gardens held that…