A Texas blood bank just lost an NLRB case, and there’s not a union anywhere in the story. Employers keep forgetting that the National Labor Relations Act applies to non-union companies, too. An employee at Carter BloodCare posted on Facebook urging coworkers to wear black scrubs on Sundays to protest Sunday assignments. Hashtags: hashtag#Solidarity, hashtag#TogetherWeCan.…

A March 2026 Center for Economic and Policy Research report and a companion WPR analysis paint a stark picture: between 1985 and 2025, total U.S. union membership fell from 18% to 10% nationally — but the state-level variation is dramatic: 1. Private sector union membership rates declined in every state except Vermont (where it rose…

Starbucks just beat Workers United on every count. The administrative law judge dismissed the complaint in its entirety. This one came out of the union fight at Starbucks’ downtown Seattle stores. The General Counsel threw the usual stack of charges: unlawfully soliciting grievances at “collaboration” sessions, interrogating an employee in a job interview, and —…

The NLRB has issued a complaint against UFCW Local 7, alleging the union illegally threatened workers with fines for not participating in 2025 strike orders against King Soopers and Safeway stores in Colorado. The legal foundation is straightforward. The NLRA forbids unions from imposing internal union discipline on workers who are not members. The charges…

A nonprofit just got hit with a Gissel bargaining order — the nuclear option in labor law — and the decision reads like a checklist of what not to do. Civic Influencers, a get-out-the-vote nonprofit, fired seven employees and rescinded one promotion after staff criticized the CEO and started organizing with the United Professional Organizers.…

An NLRB administrative law judge just handed Amazon a mostly favorable decision in the Teamsters’ San Francisco organizing fight (DCK6 delivery station). The General Counsel threw the kitchen sink at Amazon — a “myriad” of 8(a)(1) and (3) allegations. Surveillance. Threats. Promising perks to ditch the union vests. Stricter rules. The judge dismissed almost all…