Textbook Example of Unlawfully Trying to Bust a Union

The owner of Ohio nursing homes sold two homes to another company. The new company took over the homes on July 1st. Under the takeover agreement, all employees were fired on June 30th right before midnight, including nurses’ aides, housekeepers, cooks, and others represented by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). Employees were told of…
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Corporate Lawyers – Don’t Forget to Include Me when Structuring Buy/Sell Agreements

The General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board has made it a top priority to force purchasing companies to recognize the labor unions in place at the selling company. While there are legal ways to craft the buy/sell agreement to avoid becoming a “successor employer,” the NLRB is actively seeking to catch companies that…
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Helping M&A Lawyers Through Union Due Diligence

A fair amount of work is referred to me from business lawyers who need help navigating the complex world of traditional labor law when structuring a merger or acquisition of a unionized company. A few recent examples of how this happens this include:  A real estate development company that purchased a building where the janitors,…
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