On October 26, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or the Board) issued a new rule addressing how the Board will assess joint employer status under the National Labor…

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The NLRB announced today that the unionization effort at Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama warehouse was resoundingly defeated. Seventy percent of the votes counted opposed SEIU’s effort to represent this fulfillment center’s…

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Category: Contracts, Union Access,

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decided yesterday in Bethany College that it does not have jurisdiction over faculty at religious schools and colleges, overruling a 2014 decision which held…

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On December 14, 2017, the National Labor Relations Board (“Board”) – the entity responsible for enforcing the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”) – overturned a handbook standard that has been…

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Category: NLRB, Union Access,

It has been a busy month for the federal courts in Texas, and a long one for the United States Department of Labor (the “DOL”). As we blogged here last…

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Category: Union Access,

In this blog, we have previously covered the United States’ Department of Labor’s controversial efforts to effect a significant change to the so-called “Persuader Rule,” a regulation first proposed by…

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Category: Union Access,

 Attorneys for the Plaintiff California public sector teachers in the case of Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association have taken the extraordinarily rare step of petitioning the Supreme Court for a…

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Category: Union Access,

 Attorneys for the Plaintiff California public sector teachers in the case of Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association have taken the extraordinarily rare step of petitioning the Supreme Court for a…

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Category: Union Access,

If you asked 100 non-union employers  whether they thought they would be required to admit union representatives to inspections of their facilities, probably 99 of them would say no.  It…

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Category: Union Access,

While we were all watching football and eating leftovers over the Christmas holiday, the California Supreme Court issued one of the most controversial decisions in years, finding that a union…

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Category: Union Access,