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Executive Labor Summary

  • Boeing trial taxis down the runway
  • NLRB sues Arizona over secret ballot law, and has South Dakota in its sights
  • Dues checkoff may survive contract expiration
  • NLRB adds "rat balloon" to unions' secondary boycott arsenal
  • Acting General Counsel gives regional offices more authority to seek additional remedies for bad-faith bargaining over first contracts.
  • Employer ordered to bargain at least 16 hours a week.
  • Merely maintaining improper work rules gets decertification vote thrown out.
  • NLRB upholds "bannering" of neutral employers.
  • Board invites amicus briefs on employee witness statements . . . and you know what that means!
  • Solomon seeks to change back pay guidelines to be less favorable for employers.
  • House bill seeks to guarantee secret-ballot elections.
  • NLRB proposes rule requiring all employers to post notice of employees’ right to unionize.
  • Board solicits amicus briefs on nursing home bargaining units.
  • Acting General Counsel wants harsh remedies during organizing.
  • Solomon wants to ensure that deferral arbitrations address employee rights.
  • Pre-recognition card check deal was lawful, NLRB says.
  • Solicitation of amicus briefs signals pro-union changes by NLRB.
  • Casual employees get to petition and vote on union.
  • Number of union wins is down, but number of union workers is up.
  • NLRB to seek swift remedies during union organizing.
  • Union vote within 10 days of petition? Could happen!
  • NLRB plays catch-up . . . .
  • - - - And throws curveballs!
  • Don’t mess with our cans!
  • Question Becker’s ethics? No way!
  • Women and children first!
  • EFCA? Trust us . . . we have a plan . . . just as soon as we figure out what it is
  • New regulations address "anti-Beck" posting
  • Senate confirms nominations of Hayes and Pearce
  • Supreme Court rules two-member NLRB lacked authority
  • Predictable? Becker refuses to recuse
  • EFCA is dead for now, but there are other ways to skin a cat
  • NLRB May Be Totally Pro-Labor by September
  • Liebman Expects New Board to “Reinvigorate” Collective Bargaining
  • “Stealth” Replacements Cost Employer $2.55 Million
  • Validity of Two-Member NLRB Rulings Argued in Supreme Court
  • Becker nomination: dead, or only sleeping?
  • Partial lockout OK – if not unlawfully motivated.
  • Union activity, “journalistic integrity” don't trump newspaper publisher's First Amendment rights.
  • Shift leaders are not supervisors, court says.
  • What? NLRB General Counsel ordered to bargain!
  • NLRB poised for changes
  • EFCA update
  • Supreme Court will hear two-member Board cases
  • What’s up with EFCA? Anybody’s guess
  • Constangy to argue 2-member Board case at Supreme Court
  • Handbook rule limiting media releases unlawful
  • Beware of NLRB Nominee Becker, Chamber of Commerce says
  • Union must give hospital 10 days’ notice of workers’ refusal to work voluntary overtime
  • D.C. Circuit nixes employer-friendly NLRB ruling on non-work solicitations
  • “Full capacity” language in contract comes back to bite steel company
  • EFCA update
  • Two-member rulings continue
  • Arbitration of statutory discrimination claims? Not so fast!
  • Read the entire contract!
  • EFCA update
  • It takes only two to tango, First Circuit says
  • Solis confirmed – “wealthy CEOs,” beware!
  • Union membership grew again in 2008
  • Solis nomination heads to full Senate
  • Employee Free Choice Act in Trouble?
  • Walkout To Attend Negotiations Not Protected
  • Unions Claim Credit for Obama Win – and Expect Big Payback
  • UFCW Is “In” at Smithfield, Shortly After RICO Suit Settled
  • Union Win Rate in NLRB Elections Increases Substantially
  • Teamsters to Lose 8,000 Jobs
  • Boeing Deal With Machinists Ends Long, Costly Strike
  • Teamsters and BCT Vote to Modify Contracts With Bankrupt Interstate Bakeries
  • Third Circuit Agrees: UNITE HERE Shouldn’t Have Recorded Cintas Employees’ License Plate Numbers
  • Alcoa Bargained Over Decision to Stop Releasing Employees Early to Attend Union Meetings, Board Finds
  • Two-Member NLRB Keeps on Truckin’, But Some Want it to Take a Pit Stop
  • Proposed Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) Sparks Action – Reaction
  • Union Button Not Disturbing
  • Where Objective Evidence Supports Loss Of Majority Status, The Employer Prevails Absent Rebuttal Evidence By General Counsel
  • More E-Mails From The NLRB

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