Thirty truck drivers and warehousemen represented by the Teamsters Union at Independent Pipe and Supply Corp. in Canton, Ohio stopped working for 60 days. The strike, as usual, necessitated regular police detail. The Canton police responded to more than a dozen disputes and disturbances at the picket line and charged five individuals with crimes ranging…

A nursing home operator operates six healthcare facilities represented by the Service Employees International Union. The Union prepared flyers and stickers stating that the operator had recently been “busted” when an NLRB regional director issued an unfair labor practice complaint against the Company. A complaint is just an allegation, so the Company was not “busted.”…

A hospital and a union recently allowed their collective bargaining agreement to expire. One provision in the CBA provided that “for the duration of this Agreement, the Hospital will adjust the pay of Nurses on his/her anniversary date” in the amount of 3%. Despite the expiration of the agreement, the Board found that the hospital…

The ambush election rules implemented on April 14, 2015, provide an increased advantage to unions attempting to organize workers by dramatically reducing the number of days between when a petition for a union election is filed and when the election is held. This advantage makes it critical for employers to know which industries have been…

Collective bargaining agreements generally run in 3-year cycles; every three years they expire, at which time companies and unions re-negotiate a contract to govern labor relations for the next three years. That means contracts that are negotiated in 2015 must take into account the Affordable Care Act’s “Cadillac” tax for most union health care plans,…

Resident physicians at Elmhurst Hospital Center in Queens, N.Y. sought to unionize and relied on an NLRB decision holding that resident physicians are employees within the meaning of the National Labor Relations Act. The Hospital, relying on a separate Board decision, argued that the residents were more akin to graduate students, not employees, and thus…