Employees who service San Francisco’s Ford GoBike system voted to join a growing list of unionized bike-share workers when 60% of the workers chose to affiliate with the Transportation Workers Union. Workers at bike-sharing programs in seven other cities have already voted to unionize with the Transportation Workers Union. Ford GoBike is operated by a…

I used to be like you. I used to think that no company in their right mind would ever want a union representing their employees. No company would want to live within the strict confines of a collective bargaining agreement. No company would want to have to ask permission to change the brand of potato…

The takeaway from this case is pretty simple: a union that files 14 baseless lawsuits against a company developing a grocery store engages in sham litigation and violates the National Labor Relations Act’s law against pressuring a secondary (or neutral) employer to cease doing business with the primary employer because the union has a dispute…

This is good news for employers – especially those in Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan, and Tennessee. If you want to help insulate RNs (or other employees) from unionizing, allow them to give a written memorandum that causes the initiation of a step in a disciplinary policy (written warning). This qualifies as “discipline” under the National Labor…

A craft unit is an organization of workers who perform skilled or semi-skilled labor such as electricians and carpenters. Craft units have their own unions, i.e. Carpenters Union, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), Plumbers & Pipefitters, etc. Non-craft units generally belong to unions like the Teamsters, Service Employees International Union (SEIU), and UNITE HERE…

When employers commit unfair labor practices that disrupt pre-election conditions to the point where the National Labor Relations Board determines a free and fair election could not be held, an parties are ordered to bypass a secret ballot election and to immediately begin negotiating a first collective bargaining agreement. There are no automatic rules in…