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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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Labor Board Sees Major Uptick in Activity During First Half of Fiscal Year: 3 Takeaways for Employers

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The new union representation process installed by the National Labor Relations Board unsurprisingly led to an astronomical increase in election petitions filed in the first half of FY 2024. The Labor Board also saw a...more

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Interactive Union Organizing Activity Map Reveals 4 Key Trends

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While you may think labor unions only impact large corporations or specific industries, FP’s new Union Organizing Activity Map actually shows that smaller businesses are more likely to confront an organizing drive. The map...more

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The Labor Law Insider - What Just Happened, and What’s Next? 2023 Labor Law Retrospective

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Labor Law Insider veterans Adam Doerr and Rufino Gaytán join host Tom Godar to discuss the impact of the National Labor Relations Board’s 2023 decisions. How does the Cemex decision, encouraging union representation without...more

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Internal Employee Grievance Committees Can Violate Federal Labor Laws

When faced with potential employee organizing activity, some employers react by trying to address worker grievances through alternatives to union representation. Sometimes these approaches involve establishing an internal...more

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The Labor Law Insider: Forget the Election: Union Representation Without the Messy Election is the Next Labor Law Reality, Part II

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Husch Blackwell partners Tom O’Day and Tyler Paetkau join Labor Law Insider host Tom Godar in Part II of this discussion of the impact of new Cemex decision by the NLRB. Suddenly, minor violations of the National Labor...more

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Labor Board Overhauls Representation Process to Boost Union Organizing: Your 8-Step Plan to Respond

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The NLRB just drastically changed how employers can respond to union recognition demands by creating a new framework that will determine when employers are required to bargain with unions without a representation election....more

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California Governor Confirms Unionization of Agricultural Employees Through “Card Check” Process: Your Top 3 Takeaways

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Governor Newsom recently signed a bill into law clarifying that a single alternative to the traditional secret ballot method – an alternative known as the “card check” election – may be used for unions to organize at...more

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Oklahoma City Apple Store votes to unionize

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When Apple’s Penn Square Mall retail store in Oklahoma City voted on Friday to unionize, it became the tech giant’s second location in the United States to do so. Is this a trend for other Oklahoma employers? Count on...more

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[Webinar] 2022 WORKing Lunch Series: Wake-up Call: The Resurgence of Unions - October 18th, 12:30 pm ET

The death of union representation was probably not exaggerated—that is, before the pandemic. Now, with employers desperate to recruit and retain employees in a robust labor market, wages seeing the highest percentage...more

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Top NLRB Lawyer Aims to Impose Union Recognition Through ‘Card Check’ Process

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An employer can generally refuse a union’s demand for recognition and insist on a secret ballot vote, according to established federal labor law authority, but relying on this authority seems somewhat risky at the moment. For...more

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High-Profile Employers Face Intense Union Organizing

Union efforts to organize workers are on the rise. Most notably, several high-profile employers are at the forefront of recent union campaigns, including Amazon, Starbucks and now Apple. Employees at Amazon’s Staten Island,...more

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Manufacturing Snapshot: Resurrection of Long-Extinct Doctrine Brings Threat of De Facto “Card-Check”

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The Biden administration is deploying a number of initiatives in its ongoing efforts “to be the most pro-union administration in American history” – but the current effort to resurrect the decades-old Joy Silk doctrine, which...more

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White House Labor Task Force Issues Report on “Worker Organizing and Empowerment”: What Employers Should Know and Do

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The White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment recently issued a Report to the President that lays the groundwork for significant changes in the labor relations field over the next several years. When the...more

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The Labor Law Insider: The Unions Are Coming! The Unions Are Coming!

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The Labor Law Insider takes on the recharged union optimism and activity in this podcast episode. Moderator Tom Godar is joined by members of Husch Blackwell’s Labor Law team, Terry Potter, Tom O’Day, and Rufino Gaytán, to...more

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D.C. Circuit Court Rules NLRB’s Access to Property Test is Arbitrary

General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, Jennifer Abruzzo, is already on her way to accomplishing one of the objectives she laid out in her recent Advice-Memorandum 21-04. In the GC’s memo, she identified a...more

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Labor Board Orders Business To Reopen; D.C. Circuit Says Not So Fast

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The NLRB has the authority to order an employer to reopen a business it finds was closed for discriminatorily anti-union reasons. In RAV Truck & Trailer Repairs, Inc., 369 NLRB No. 36 (Mar. 3, 2020), the NLRB did just that....more

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Minority Unions – A Major Concern for Employers in 2021 and Beyond?

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Recent media reports have covered the relatively new phenomenon of minority labor unions.  These are not traditional unions in the sense of formal organizing, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) certification, and exclusive...more

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3 Changes Healthcare Employers Should Watch For Under Biden’s National Labor Relations Board

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A Biden presidency will surely bring changes to federal labor law under the National Labor Relations Act, the primary law that governs employee collective activity, labor-management relations, collective bargaining, and union...more

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Union kNOw – Happy 85th Birthday, National Labor Relations Act And National Labor Relations Board!

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The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) will be 85 years old on July 5, 2020. On July 5, 1935, the Wagner Act was signed into law by President Franklin Roosevelt. That law gave...more

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NLRB Expands Definition of ‘Solicitation’ in Precedent Altering Decision

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Seyfarth Synopsis: The National Labor Relations Board issued a decision in Wynn Las Vegas, LLC, 369 N.L.R.B. No. 91 (May 29, 2020) that redefines “solicitation” to include any employee activity encouraging other employees to...more

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#WorkforceWednesday: Kickstarter Unionization, Coronavirus Guidance, Class Action Waivers - Employment Law This Week®

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Happy #WorkforceWednesday to all employers. Here’s the week’s top workforce management and employment law news: One Giant Leap for Tech? (Video above) Kickstarter employees voted to unionize last week. This is the first big...more

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[Event] Remaining Union Free: Preparing Your Team in 2020 - March 25th - 26th, Austin, TX

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We continue to see an uptick in union petition filing and the win rate for unions in certification elections continues to be historically high. Is your organization prepared? With the November presidential election months...more

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NLRB General Counsel Signals Major Shift on Neutrality Agreements - Employment Law This Week® - Trending News

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A Trending News interview from Employment Law This Week®, featuring attorney Adam Abrahms of Epstein Becker Green: The General Counsel for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has signaled what could be a major shift in...more

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Union Organizes First Cannabis Shop in Massachusetts

In November 2019, United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) became the first union to organize employees at a Massachusetts cannabis company. According to the Boston Globe, two-thirds of Sira Naturals,...more

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