A small hospital, with 15 in-patient beds, operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with a nursing staff that includes 6 PCC (who are registered nurses) and their subordinates: 8-9 registered nurses, 3 licensed practical nurses, and 1 certified nurse assistant. The PCC position was created specifically to have someone accountable for the…

Businesses can breathe a little easier knowing that the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) doesn’t plan on engaging in much organizing activity over the next few years. This decision may be as much the result of its failed Fight for $15 campaign as it is fearing Donald Trump. Over the last three-and-one-half years, the SEIU…

Employers often assume that when their employees decertify a union, that every obligation an employer had under the collective bargaining agreement disappears. They are wrong. In 2013, employees in three separate bargaining units (all with the International Union of Operating Engineers) of one Company voted to decertify. At that time, the Union and Company were…

Maybe a profoundly anti-worker Trump administration is just what American labor needs – a galvanizing force, and a defined target – is the thought process coming from many in the labor movement today. They then start to list the many areas of labor law that changed under President Obama and that are ripe for changing…

Common fodder for labor relations seminars is whether employers must bargain with a union over the employer’s discontinuance of providing workers with a Christmas ham (or my personal favorite, whether bargaining is required before changing the chips in a vending machine). Here, the issue was whether the employer’s change in a Christmas gift policy violated…

A union representing employees of Rite Aid’s New York and New Jersey stores filed a complaint alleging that the company illegally insisted, as a condition of reaching a contract, that the union agree to remove newly hired interns and pharmacists working in New York stores from the bargaining unit. Rite Aid contended that is proposal…