NLRB Widens Weingarten Rights

When an employer held a pre-disciplinary investigative interview of an employee for possible fraudulent Medicaid billing and timekeeping practices, a coworker who served as the union steward attended the interview as the employee’s Weingarten representative. During the interview, the union steward repeatedly asked the employer to explain the purpose of the questioning, and the union steward…
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Complaint Issues Against UFCW for Unlawful Coercion of Walmart Employees

Region 7 of the NLRB in Detroit, Michigan issued a complaint, alleging that the United Food and Commercial Workers union (UFCW) violated Section the NLRA by restraining and coercing Walmart employees during a 2012 Black Friday protest at a store in Dearborn, Michigan. According to the complaint, an organizing director for UFCW Local 876 and…
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NLRB Seeks to Limit Ability of Unionized Business to Relocate

Richard Griffin, the new general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, wants to give unions veto power over a company’s decision to relocate. Griffin recently ordered NLRB Regional Directors to seek guidance from his office before acting on relocation cases. Currently, unionized employers may relocate some or all of their facilities and eliminate bargaining…
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LA Times Publishes Bogus SEIU-Led “Poll” About the Restaurant Industry

The Los Angeles Times recently reported on a “poll” by Hart Research purporting to show widespread labor law violations in the restaurant industry – an industry currently under intense unionization efforts from many major labor unions. The “poll” was commissioned by SEIU worker center “Low Pay is Not OK” – the group orchestrating strikes at…
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Unions Successfully Strike Non-Union Companies to Represent Workers

Companies that think only union employees can go on strike are sorely mistaken. Non-union employees can and do strike – oftentimes as part of a broader union organizing strategy. An auto parts supplier in Toledo, Ohio recently learned this the hard way. Workers at Piston Automotive, an important parts supplier to Jeep, walked off the…
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Worker Center ROC Admits It’s a Modern Union

Jose Oliva, a director for the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, a prominent worker center, recently explained how worker centers are nonprofit groups that are an alternate form of labor organizing. Most major unions have established and funded their own worker centers to further their own causes. According to Oliva, a union can collect dues from…
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