Employees Kingsmore and Alexander worked for Gestamp in South Carolina and tried to organize their co-workers into joining the United Steelworkers union. Their union organizing activity was known by their supervisors, but not by the human resource department. Kingsmore and Alexander were terminated for falsifying their application and time sheet, respectively. The termination was solely…

The United Auto Workers union lost a very public election campaign at the Chattanooga Volkswagen plan several months ago. Down, but not out, the union has vowed to organize auto manufacturers in the south, including those in Tennessee, which is a right to work state. Employees in right to work states have the option to…

The law of whether successor employers violate the National Labor Relations Act when they do not hire a majority of the predecessor’s employees and do not recognize and bargain with the predecessor’s union has taken a turn for the worse. The law used to allow successor companies to forgo bargaining with the predecessor’s union if…

A labor union picketed and caused a ruckus outside an Urban Outfitters store located inside a shopping mall because Urban Outfitter hired a non-union construction company to make renovations at the store. Specifically, dozens of union members “started a disruptive protest by marching in a circle, yelling, chanting loudly in unison, blowing whistles, hitting and…

The Board recently shot down a confidentiality policy maintained by a California elementary school founded by Hollywood director James Cameron and his wife as being overly broad. The policy prohibited employees from disclosing any information about the school or its owners, students, or employees. It also said that former employees were precluded from making any…

Employee Simmons claimed his supervisor Rodzach opened a meeting by asking whether he had been rude. Invoking his Weingarten rights, Simmons said he would not discuss the matter without his shop steward being present. Rodzach did not respond to the request, so Simmons ended the meeting and left the room. Unfortunately for Simmons, Weingarten was…