Major League Baseball Labor Negotiations: Major League Baseball (the League) and the union representing the players are negotiating a new collective bargaining agreement. Negotiations are not going well. The League locked out the players. No trades or Spring Training can occur until the owners lift the lockout. The two sides are very far apart. For example,…

Under Lutheran Heritage (2004), the Board was supposed to view the totality of a corporate policy and not individual fragments of that policy. This decision tried to provide a framework for evaluating the language of employer policies. However, the Board overly-scrutinized all policies and often examined fragments of a policy without regard to the full…

About 100 musicians in the Cleveland Orchestra will receive annual 2% pay increases under a three-year contract that will take them through the 2020-2021 season. In addition to the pay increases, the agreement creates a new fifth tier of seniority pay for musicians who have been orchestra members for 25 years, increases retirement benefits, provides…

Despite the utility and advantages, technological advances complicate employers’ and labor unions’ collective bargaining relationship. For example, to what extent must employers bargain with unions over the introduction of technology on the jobsite, especially where new technology performs bargaining unit work or monitors bargaining unit workers performance?   Employers generally have the right to make…

If a company has a union, does the employer have to negotiate with the union before changing or implementing safety policies?  Yes. A company violated labor law when it unilaterally implemented a policy at a manufacturing facility that required workers to wear flame-resistant clothing at all times. Prior to the implementation of that policy, employees did not have…

Companies whose employees are represented by a labor union are required to bargain with the union before changing most any term or condition of employment. An Illinois food processing company should have bargained with the union representing its employees before enrolling in the federal government’s E-Verify program. E-Verify is a web-based system that allows participating…