NLRA, Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBA)

Deauthorization – A Win for Employees and a Path to Right to Work Under the NLRA

Husch Blackwell LLP on 7/3/2024

On June 11, 2024, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a very short but interesting decision in Governed United Security Professionals (Golden SVCS, LLC) and Sheldon N. Fraser, 373 NLRB No. 66 (June 11, 2024),...more

Eighth Circuit Upholds NLRB Bad Faith Bargaining Decision and Broad Remedies Order

Proskauer - Labor Relations Update on 4/12/2024

On April 8, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eight Circuit, in United Food & Com. Workers’ Union, Loc. No. 293 v. Noah’s Ark Processors, LLC, No. 23-1895 (8th Cir. 2024), upheld the National Labor Relations Board’s...more

D.C. Circuit: NLRB Must Weigh Contract-Based Defenses and Enforce Lawful CBA Provisions

Littler on 4/2/2024

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit sent an unfair labor practice case back to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) because the agency failed to consider the contract-based defenses of an employer accused of...more

2024 Labor & Employment Law Updates for the Construction Industry

Snell & Wilmer on 2/16/2024

The New Year often means new labor and employment laws for the construction industry, 2024 is no exception. Federal agencies have been especially active. The Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council, the National Labor...more

Just When You Thought You Were All Zippered Up . . .The NLRB Issues a New Decision on Zipper Clauses

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC on 1/5/2024

If you are gearing up for union negotiations in 2024, do not miss the opportunity to review current and past practices that may not have been incorporated into expiring collective bargaining agreements. Trust me, it will be...more

“Free and Clear” Collides with “Perfectly Clear”: Delaware District Court Imposes Successor Liability on Buyer in 363 Sale

Proskauer Rose LLP on 12/1/2023

Navigating the Bankruptcy Code can present many traps for unsuspecting debtors, creditors, or asset buyers. The Delaware District Court recently reminded bankruptcy participants of an often overlooked pitfall involving the...more

NLRB Delivers Labor Day Gifts to Unions

Epstein Becker & Green on 9/11/2023

It has been a decision-packed summer at the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or “Board”), and the last weeks of summer were especially active, with a number of significant decisions released at the end of August that...more

Past Practice in the Past? NLRB Narrows Past Practice Defense for Employer Unilateral Action During Bargaining

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 9/8/2023

On August 30, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) released two decisions that will make it more difficult for employers to implement past practices during a break in bargaining or at an impasse, opening the door...more

In Latest Pro-Labor Rulings, NLRB Sharply Curtails Management’s Ability to Change Union Workers' Employment Terms

Fox Rothschild LLP on 9/7/2023

In a pair of decisions issued on Aug. 30, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) established new, restrictive standards for evaluating when a unionized employer may avoid bargaining over changes to employees’ terms...more

NLRB Continues to Rewrite the Rules to Limit Employers’ Authority

Vedder Price on 9/5/2023

On Wednesday, August 30, 2023, the National Labor Board (“NLRB” or “the Board”) issued a pair of decisions—Wendt Corp., 372 NLRB No. 135, and Tecnocap LLC, 372 NLRB No. 136—that highlight the Board’s continued focus on...more

NLRB Reverses 50-Year Precedent and Lessens Standard for a Bargaining Order Without a Secret Ballot Election

Hinshaw & Culbertson - Employment Law... on 8/28/2023

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) reversed over fifty years of established precedent on August 25, 2023, when it decided to overrule its 1971 decision in Linden Lumber and reinstate a modified version of its 1949 Joy...more

Littler Lightbulb – June Employment Appellate Roundup

Littler on 7/6/2023

This Littler Lightbulb highlights some of the more significant employment law developments at the U.S. Supreme Court and federal courts of appeal in the last month. At the Supreme Court...more

U.S. Supreme Court Holds Employers Can Sue for Strike Damages

Smith Gambrell Russell on 6/21/2023

In an 8-1 decision, the United States Supreme Court ruled for the employer in Glacier Northwest v. Teamsters, Local 174 in a case that has significant implications for a union’s right to strike and for the targeted employer...more

Cemented in History: The Supreme Court’s Glacier Decision Holds That Employers Can Sue for Strike Damages

Snell & Wilmer on 6/9/2023

On June 1, 2023, the United States Supreme Court issued its 8-1 decision in Glacier Northwest, Inc. v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local Union No. 174,1 holding that the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”)2 does...more

Michigan Repeals Right-To-Work

Foley & Lardner LLP on 4/10/2023

In a highly anticipated move, on March 24, 2023, Governor Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan signed a repeal of the state’s 2012 so-called “Right-to-Work” legislation. The repeal had long been a stated goal of democrats in the...more

Illinois Supreme Court Holds A Violation Of BIPA Occurs And Accrues With Each Scan

Laner Muchin, Ltd. on 3/30/2023

The Illinois Supreme Court recently held in Cothron v. White Castle System, Inc., No. 128004 that a violation of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (the “Act” or “BIPA”) occurs and accrues every time a scan of a...more

Impact of the NLRB’s McLaren Macomb Decision on Confidentiality and Non-Disparagement Provisions in Severance Agreements

Weintraub Tobin on 3/14/2023

Section 7(a) of the NLRA Applies to More Than Just CBA Employees- In general, Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”) provides employees nationwide with certain rights relating to organizing with other...more

Union Activity Continues to Rise: Best Practices for Your Business

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP on 2/13/2023

The reported rate of union membership in the United States has been decreasing for the past 40 years, with recent numbers no exception to the slide downhill. Those numbers, however, are deceiving...more

The National Labor Relations Board 2022 Year In Review

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC on 2/2/2023

2022 was a great year for U.S. labor unions and employees, but not so much for U.S. employers. The Biden National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) dug in and got to work, reversing precedent and charting a course to reinterpret...more

Everything and the Kitchen Sink: The NLRB’s Labor-Friendly New Year’s Resolutions

DarrowEverett LLP on 1/9/2023

Contrary to the expression’s limitations, the National Labor Relations Board (the Board”) set the tone for 2023 with some major Decisions which will essentially provide employees with not only the kitchen sink, but the walls...more

NLRB Rules Dues Checkoff Cannot Be Unilaterally Stopped Upon the Expiration of the CBA

Laner Muchin, Ltd. on 12/6/2022

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently issued a decision which held that employers who currently do not remit union dues because of the expiration of a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) may be found to be in...more

Sellers Beware: NLRB Expands Employer Requirements to Provide Sales Agreement to Union

Fisher Phillips on 11/18/2022

In a recent decision, the National Labor Relations Board gave unions greater access to sales agreements under the employer’s duty to provide relevant information so as to meaningfully engage in effects bargaining. The August...more

NLRB Holds Employers Must Continue Dues Checkoff After Expiration of Collective Bargaining Agreement

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC on 10/25/2022

In Valley Hospital Medical Center, 371 NLRB No. 160 (Sept. 30, 2022) (Valley Hospital II), a divided National Labor Relations Board held that employers must continue to deduct union dues from employees’ pay and remit such...more

New Franczek Series: Labor Updates

Franczek P.C. on 10/20/2022

As we’ve previously reported, union organizing is on the upswing and the NLRB is beginning to issue decisions that reverse Trump-era precedents that were generally more favorable to employers. This is the first in what we...more

NLRB Reverses Position on Obligation of Employers to Continue Deducting Union Dues After Expiration of CBA

CDF Labor Law LLP on 10/18/2022

History of Dues Checkoff Precedent - In 1962, years before most working Americans were even born, the NLRB issued its decision in Bethlehem Steel. That decision held that dues checkoff clauses in collective bargaining...more

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