Hiding Union Finances: The U.S. Department of Labor rescinded a 2020 regulation that subjected union apprenticeship programs and strike funds to stricter reporting requirements just as the first disclosure deadline approached. That regulation required the disclosure of receipt of the funds and a trail to where the money went. Proponents of the regulation said it increased…

President Biden’s appointed NLRB General Counsel is quickly making several changes to established laws and procedures. The NLRB GC is responsible for setting the agenda of the Board and highlighting how she would like Board Members to rule on certain cases if is the opportunity to do so arises. Just weeks into her new role…

President Trump is imposing a 25% tariff on imported steel and a 10% tariff on imported aluminum. Canada and Mexico are exempt from the taxes. The tariffs will likely impact Northeast Ohio, home to several steel facilities, including ArcelorMittal in Cleveland, Republic Steel in Lorain and Canton, TimkenSteel in Canton and U.S. Steel in Lorain,…

A discharged Cummins, Inc. plant worker who wasn’t a union member may be entitled to have the Machinists union pay his lost wages after the union refused to arbitrate his complaint contesting the firing. Machinists Talbot Lodge No. 61 represents all of the production and maintenance employees at a Tennessee Cummins plant, but a union…

The Teamsters gathered in Detroit, Michigan to discuss how to educate workers about the value of their union membership. Detroit is home of the United Autoworkers union. Michigan is a Right to Work state. This was not a joint meeting or phony public relations stunt, either, which made choosing Detroit even more odd. No other…

In the past three years, union shave organized 5,000 people who work on the campuses of household named companies in Silicon Valley. For example, shuttle drivers for Apple, Tesla, Twitter, LinkedIn, EBay, Yahoo!, Cisco, and Facebook are now union. Likewise, security guards for Adobe, IBM, Cisco, and Facebook, along with cafeteria works at Cisco, Intel,…