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The Labor Law Insider - How Unions Are Navigating Trump 2.0, Part I

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Host Tom Godar welcomes Husch Blackwell colleague Adam Doerr to the show for a two-part episode to discuss how organized labor has approached the early days of Trump 2.0. Among other actions, the administration dismissed the...more

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Ruling by German Labour Court Limits Unions’ Digital Access Rights

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Since the Covid-19 pandemic and the resulting move toward home office for many employees, unions have been looking for ways to enter employers virtually, in order to get in touch with their members and to attract new members...more

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Cross-Border Legal Perspectives: Comparing the UK’s and Germany’s Approaches to Unfair Dismissal

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Welcome back to our “cross-border perspectives” series, where we compare employment law and practice from an international perspective, drawing on the experience of local and international employment lawyers who deal with...more

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New NLRB Counsel Overturns Biden-Era Policies, Signaling Pro-Employer Shift

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With one stroke of his pen, the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) new Acting General Counsel, William Cowen, has effectively dismantled more than two dozen key Biden-era initiatives that favored employees and unions. ...more

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Trump’s Valentine to Employers: The NLRB’s Acting General Counsel Undoes His Predecessor’s Agenda

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On Feb. 14, the NLRB’s acting GC, Cowen, issued a memorandum to Board personnel rescinding more than 30 “GC memoranda” issued by the former GC, Abruzzo. Cowen’s action – which had been expected after President Donald Trump...more

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NLRB Restricts Captive Audience Meetings

In November 2024, in Amazon.com Services LLC, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled that an employer violates the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) when it requires employees to attend meetings in which the...more

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Mandatory “Captive Audience” Meetings Now Illegal

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Since the 1940’s, the National Labor Relations Board (“the Board”) has held the position that mandatory meetings with employees where the employer expresses its views on unions, typically referred to as “Captive Audience...more

Saul Ewing LLP

NLRB Forbids Captive-Audience Meetings

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On Wednesday, November 13, 2024, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled that an employer may no longer require employees to attend meetings in which the employer expresses its views on unionization. The 3-1 decision...more

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NLRB Finds Lawful Employer Statements to Employees Are Unlawful Going Forward

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Just hours after it became clear that Donald Trump would be returning to the White House, the majority Democratic National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) showed no signs of slowing down its efforts to implement the Biden...more

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NLRB Places Further Restrictions on Employers: Captive Audience Meetings Restricted

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The National Labor Relations Board (the Board) voted 3-1 (along party lines, with Member Kaplan dissenting) on November 13, 2024, to prohibit so-called "captive audience" meetings.1 In doing so, the Board overturned...more

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NLRB Jettisons 76-Year-Old Precedent Covering Workplace Meetings

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Since 1948, Section 8(c) of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) had been interpreted to protect the First Amendment right of employers to bring employees together to exchange views, arguments, and opinions about...more

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After Nearly Eight Decades of Lawful Captive-Audience Meetings, Employers Are Now Prohibited From The Practice

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On November 13, 2024, the National Labor Relations Board (“Board”) overturned Babcock & Wilcox, 77 NLRB 577 (1948), which had—for over 75 years—protected employers’ right to hold mandatory meetings on their premises to...more

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The NLRB Overturns Another Longstanding Rule Involving Employers Expressing Views on Unionization to a “Captive Audience”

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On November 13, 2024, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) issued a sharply divided decision in Amazon.com Services LLC, overruling yet another decades-old rule and holding that captive-‍audience meetings violate...more

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National Labor Relations Board Says No More Mandatory Captive-Audience Meetings

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On November 13, the National Labor Relations Board (the Board) held that so-called captive-audience meetings — meetings where employers require employee attendance and argue against unionization — violate the National Labor...more

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NLRB Releases Two Major Decisions Less Than a Week Apart

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The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board) recently issued two rulings that caused a seismic shift in what is permissible employer conduct during a union organizational campaign. While there is uncertainty about the...more

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NLRB Bans Mandatory Captive Audience Meetings to Help Unions Mislead Workers

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Since 1948, employers could lawfully require employee attendance at on the clock captive audience meetings, even under threat of discharge or discipline. That changed this week as the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), in...more

CDF Labor Law LLP

NLRB’s New Ruling Bans Captive-Audience Meetings

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Earlier this week, on November 13, 2024, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued its decision in Amazon.com Services LLC, ruling that employers violate the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) by requiring employees...more

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NLRB Issues Two Decisions Limiting Management's Ability to Contest Unionization

During union representation campaigns, it is common for employers to advise employees of the downsides posed by union recognition. The current National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has criticized these tactics, alleging that...more

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NLRB Issues Labor-Friendly Decisions on ‘Captive Audience’ Meetings, Employer Statements on Unionization

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Reversing established precedent that has stood for decades, two recent decisions by the National Labor Relations Board make it increasingly difficult for employers to make the argument to workers that unionization is not in...more

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Can my employees really unionize without an election?

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Following a landmark NLRB ruling last year, the answer is yes. For the last several decades, the process for union recognition of an employer’s workforce was largely unchanged....more

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Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast | Episode 11: Understanding Unions with Patrick Wilson, Maynard Nexsen Attorney...

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In this two part series, Maynard Nexsen labor & employment attorney Pat Wilson joins hosts Tina and Christy to discuss what employers should understand about unions and how they can address them. Pat dives into the influence...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Open Up the Playbook: NLRB Rules Starbucks Must Produce Document at Hearing or Custodian of the Search

If you don’t already know, Starbucks has been in a pretty big labor dispute, and there are bound to be lessons for all of us. If your company has internal documents about relations with prospective unions, you may have to...more

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NLRB Revives 1940’s Precedent, Reducing Barriers to Representation

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On August 25, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) carried on with its pro-labor march by reviving elements of nearly eighty-year-old precedent. With its decision, Cemex Construction Materials Pacific, LLC, the...more

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NLRB Allows Unions to Represent Workers Without a Formal Vote

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On August 25, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or the Board) decided that employers must either recognize a new union or promptly file for an election when a union asks for recognition based on a majority of...more

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Return to the Expedited Election Rules

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On August 24, 2023, the U.S. National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) rolled back several Trump-era rules regarding how elections are conducted. More specifically, the new rules re-implement a series of Obama-era rules that...more

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