JetBlue uses outside contractors to provide baggage handling, skycap, checkpoint, and wheelchair services at JFK’s Terminal Five. Jet Blur selected PrimeFlight to replace Air Serv at JFK. Air Serv had a collective bargaining agreement with the SEIU. PrimeFlight hired 362 employees, 52 percent of whom were former Air Serv workers. On May 23, SEIU demanded recognition…

The National Labor Relations Board has the power to seek injunctive relief against employers. Injunctive relief, like a temporary restraining order, is a remedy that makes the company immediately stop doing something while the parties determine if the company is allowed to do that something in the first place. Here, the company declared impasse during…

In hallmark violations of the National Labor Relations Act, a manager told employees that their co-workers took a “huge risk” by supporting the union and that their audacity angered him. The manager also said that “by doing all of this union crap you’ve thrown us back almost all the way to square one” warning that…

Employees and plaintiff lawyers are savvy these days. They know that the best way to get a fast settlement is to cripple a company by filing several workplace charges in a variety of places like the Ohio Civil Rights Commission, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division, the National…