Nonprofit Museum Employees Strike Over Pay
By Management Labor Lawyer | | NLRB
Just before Plimoth Plantation’s busiest day of the year – Thanksgiving – union members are tyring to bring public pressure on their employer to agree to an initial contract. Plimoth, which uses the colonial-era spelling, is a nonprofit museum founded in 1947. Located near the original Plymouth Colony site in Massachusetts, the museum educates about…
Read More Fight for $15 Lowers Misses Goals, Lowers Expectations
By Management Labor Lawyer | | NLRB
Five years ago, when 200 New York City fast food workers first walked off the job for $15 an our and union rights, nobody gave us a shot. Since then, we’ve spread this movement to every corner of the country and beyond fast food,” said Steven Suffridge, a Fight for $15 organizer. Target recently announced…
Read More Smaller Bonuses for Union Employees Not Unlawfully Discriminatory
By Management Labor Lawyer | | NLRA, NLRB, Uncategorized
A union filed an unfair labor practice charge alleging that a company discriminated against union-represented employees by paying them a lesser bonus than non-union employees. The Employer argued it did not discriminate in paying the lower bonus amount to union employees because negotiated wage increases for union employees exceeded increases granted to non-union employees. The…
Read More NLRB Requires Company to Continue Annual Wage Increases After Contract Expiration
By Management Labor Lawyer | | NLRB
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…
Read More NLRB Concludes Wage Hike to Non-Union Employees was Illegal
By Management Labor Lawyer | | NLRB
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus, and the NLRB does govern when and how a non-union company can give raises to its non-union workforce. Here, the NLRB ruled that a company that gave raises to non-union employees, seemingly out of spite that some employees voted to become members of a union, was unlawful. A…
Read More NLRB Orders New Election Despite Wage Increase Notices Being Mailed Before Election Petition Filed
By Management Labor Lawyer | | NLRB
A nursing home informed geriatric nursing assistants that they would receive wage increases via letters that were sent one day before the union filed its petition for an election. The employees voted 28-33 against union representation – a company victory that would be short-lived. Though the letters were sent before the election petition was filed,…
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