On November 30th the Mixed Martial Arts Athletes Association was formed exclusively to “fight for the rights of MMA fighters and force UFC’s ownership to dramatically alter the company’s decade plus outrageous treatment of its athletes.” Past champion and proponent of unionizing Georges St. Pierre said “This same thing has happened before in every other…

As everyone knows, the United Food and Commercial Workers Union has been trying to organize Walmart workers for years but has failed to do so. Its latest effort involves a tailored app that workers are encouraged to download onto their personal phones. The app lets Walmart workers ask questions – anonymously, if they choose –…

In 2015 the NLRB pushed through the Ambush Election Rules to boost union organizing success principally by shortening the period between a union’s request for an election and the election itself and by making it more difficult for an employer to raise important, substantive legal issues prior to the election. Also among these rule changes…

Anyone who has been through a union organizing campaign can relate to the following. Until now, employers could tell the truth to their employees. Employers could tell employees that a union could not guarantee a wage increase, that everything is negotiable, that unions cost money, that unions preclude an employee from working directly with management,…

In Boch Honda the employer maintained a handbook policy that prohibited customer-facing employees from wearing, among other things “message” pins. NLRB ALJ determined that the employer’s interests in workplace safety and preventing damage to vehicles met the special circumstances standard and justified the ban. As it’s prone to do, the NLRB reversed the ALJ and determined…

The key issue that could arise out of the Miller & Anderson ruling isn’t necessarily its effect on collective bargaining or union organizing efforts, but rather on how any eventual collective bargaining agreements are used. What’s to stop a union from using a CBA as evidence that employers are joint employers? According to one article…