In 2016 the National Labor Relations Board maintained its generally pro-union, anti-employer stance in ways that affect both unionized and non-unionized employers. The Board currently has two openings, which, once President Trump fills, will result in a pro-business NLRB. However, due to the Board’s rules, employers might not see immediate improvement. After all it wasn’t…

This is an issue that has ping-ponged at the NLRB over the years. For decades, the rule was that if a union petitioned to represent direct / permanent employees at a work site along with temporary employees provided by an outside entity, both of the employers (the company and the temporary agency) would have to…

Advocates for temporary workers are celebrating the National Labor Relations Board’s new joint employer test that has paved the way for a group of Guatemalans in New Bedford, Massachusetts to organize a tire recycler. The recycler has about 70 people, both employees and temporary workers, with a large number of the employees being from Guatemala.…

Google Express, Google’s delivery service, provides delivery services for merchants such as Target, Costco, and Whole Foods. Google Express employees do not work directly for Google but instead work for Adecco, which is a temporary agency with which Google subcontracts. Recently, 151 warehouse and shipping workers for Google Express voted to join the Teamsters, which…

After years of outsourcing technical services jobs, CNN ended its contract with the supplying temp agency Team Video Services (TVS) and took those jobs in-house in 2003. The contract between CNN and TVS stated that TVS employees “are not employees of CNN and shall not be so treated at any time by either TVS or…

As appearing in the Human Resources of Central Ohio (HRACO) monthly newsletter    Are You Coming to the HRACO Labor Relations SIG to Learn About These Important Changes From the National Labor Relations Board?  Thank you for such great feedback and enthusiasm for HRACO’s first Special Interest Group dedicated exclusively for traditional labor matters. A…