On February 23, 2015, Senate Bill 44 (bill) was introduced which, if passed by the legislature and signed by Governor Walker, would make Wisconsin a right to work state. Following a full-day Senate hearing on Tuesday, February 24, 2015, SB 44 was passed by the Senate Committee on Labor and Government Reform. An identical companion bill, […]
By: Jonathan T. Swain By now, most interested persons are aware that on February 14, 2014, the UAW suffered an unprecedented and largely unforeseen defeat at the hands of a majority of employees at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The NLRB supervised the secret ballot election which the union lost by a margin of […]
By: Jonathan T. Swain On February 5, 2014, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) announced its intention to reintroduce its proposed revised union election rules which are designed to substantially shorten the time from petition to election. These rules, originally proposed in June of 2011, were invalidated by the federal courts in the Spring of […]
By: Kristofor L. Hanson The Department of Labor and the National Labor Relations Board have announced proposed rule changes that will significantly alter union-election procedures and reporting requirements for employers and their labor consultants. These changes, in large part, are designed to implement by administrative rule many of the measures of the failed Employee Free […]
By: Alan M. Levy On May 26, 2011, by a 3-1 majority, the National Labor Relations Board members appointed by the current administration ruled that a union could place a 16-feet tall, 12-feet wide inflatable rat outside a hospital with a sign saying that a non-union subcontractor on the premises was a “rat employer.” They […]
By: Jonathan T. Swain Kristofor L. Hanson In order to put something under union Christmas trees this year, the National Labor Relations Board (the “Board”) and its Acting General Counsel have taken the initial steps to require both union and non-union employers to post notices of employees’ rights under the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”), […]
By: John E. Murray On April 13, 2010, the Department of Defense issued a proposed regulation on “Labor Relations Costs.” In its current form, this proposed regulation would prevent federal contractors and subcontractors from using federal funds to persuade their employees, or the employees of any other entity, to join or not join a union. […]