JetBlue’s New Contractor Ordered to Bargain with Union at JFK Despite Not Hiring a Majority of Predecessor’s Employees

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…
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Court Denied NLRB Injunctive Relief because it Failed to Prove Irreparable Harm

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…
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Minnesota Court Denies National Labor Relations Board’s Bargaining Order Request

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…
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Ohio Nurse Wins $2 Million from Jury after NLRB ALJ Rules in Her Favor

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…
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