A New Jersey trucking company wanted to know whether its employees still wanted their union. So it ran a secret-ballot poll to ask them. NLRB held the poll broke the law. In Layla Transportation (JD-36-26), ALJ Jeffrey Gardner found the employer violated Section 8(a)(1) by polling its Teamsters-represented employees about whether they wanted the union…

A nursing home in Davenport, Iowa just learned the answer can be no — and it cost them their best defense. UFCW Local 431 petitioned to represent about 19 RNs and LPNs at Davenport Lutheran Home. The employer’s defense was the classic: nurses can’t unionize, because they’re statutory supervisors who direct the CNAs and CMAs.…

On May 26, the D.C. Circuit upheld the Board’s finding that Vermont Information Processing (VIP) illegally fired the engineer who started a company-wide salary spreadsheet. But it vacated the findings as to three coworkers and sent those cases back. Here’s what happened. In February 2022, engineer Christopher Bendel left a bad meeting about a restructuring,…

Chris Smalls won the first union election at an Amazon warehouse in April 2022. JFK8 on Staten Island. It made headlines everywhere. Here’s the part that didn’t: more than three years later, it’s still the only unionized Amazon warehouse in the country. And it still doesn’t have a contract. Two new pieces on Smalls landed…

MUJI’s Portland store tried two ways to shrink a union election. The NLRB rejected both. Per the Region 19 Decision and Direction of Election, MUJI Workers United (affiliated with the Industrial Workers of the World — yes, the Wobblies) petitioned to represent a wall-to-wall unit of about 33 employees at the SW 5th Avenue store.…

The UAW isn’t waiting for the next Big Three master agreement. It’s going plant by plant through the supply chain — and Ohio is in the blast radius. This past month: UAW Local 2093 at American Axle’s Three Rivers plant, a critical GM supplier, set a May 31 strike deadline after a 98% strike-authorization vote.…