NLRB- an independent agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor unions National Labor Relations Board independent agency- an agency of the United States government that is created by an act of Congress and is independent of the executive departme...
“We will not let any child be terrorized — not by a bad contractor, not by an unethical company, and not by an administration that turns its back on what the Liberty Bell stands for!” Rigmaiden also wrote an op-ed for the Phila. Inquirer, excerpted below; Donald Trump claimed ...
Duke could voluntarily recognize our union, or follow word with substantive action by dropping the NLRB challenge and committing the basic resources needed to hold elections now. OPINION | LETTERS TO THE EDITOR A heartbroken documentary community seeks answers ...
He also fired the acting chair of the National Labor Relations Board, Gwynne Wilcox, the first Black woman to serve as an NLRB member, as well as General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo. Wilcox sued the Trump administration, arguing that federal law protects her from being arbitrarily dismissed....
A takeaway from the UAW’s strike, for example, “is to act aggressively and creatively” while finding allies, said Cathy Creighton, director of Cornell University’s Industrial and Labor Relations Buffalo Co-Lab and a former field attorney for the NLRB. UAW President Shawn Fain ...
A new level of complexity has been added in this area by a relatively recent interpretation of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in a franchise case dealing with the classification issue, in which the NLRB found that the various employees of the franchisees were also employees of the ...
(The Obama administration had also imposed joint-employment standards, only to have them reversed by the Trump administration.) A federal court vacated the NLRB's action, but future NLRBs under Democratic presidents are still expected to pursue joint-liability standards via board adjudication rather ...
NLRB Weakens Ability of Employers to Rely on Management Rights Clauses in Collective Bargaining Agreements . . . For Now | Vedder Price – JDSupra On December 10, 2024, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or “the Board”) took advantage of its Democratic majority in the waning days o...
As it happens, I saw “The Business of Amateurs” the very day this same NLRB decided that Columbia graduate students had the right to unionize. Let’s hope they don’t change their mind a year from now. Not only is this a good thing for grad students. It might have ramifications for...
10. NLRB rulings on Amazon and Starbucks Anyone wondering whether our labor laws need fixing need look no further than the fact thatStarbucksand Amazon have been able to get away with refusing to negotiate with workers who voted to unionize for well more than a year. (Twoyears for the pat...