Understanding unions in the United States

by Justin | Jan 28, 2021 | Collective Bargaining, Labor History

Gallup has reported that two-thirds of people in the United States approve of labor unions, the highest rating in two decades. And yet, unions represent the smallest share of the workforce in one hundred years—fewer than before there was a legal right to form a union...

NLRB’s Number Two Lawyer Fired By Biden One Day After Her Boss

by Justin | Jan 22, 2021 | Collective Bargaining, NLRB, President Joseph Biden

President Joe Biden fired the second-highest-ranking attorney at the National Labor Relations Board a day after ousting her superior, leaving leadership of the agency’s legal arm in limbo as the new administration seeks to reorient the board away from the Trump...

The Peter Robb Era: A Knockdown But Not A Knockout For The NLRB

by Justin | Jan 21, 2021 | Collective Bargaining, NLRB

Robb’s mission in accepting the General Counsel job wasn’t just to reverse Obama Board decisions and create pro-management precedent. It was to destroy the agency as we currently know it. That isn’t hyperbolic; it’s simply the only way to rationally interpret his...

EDITORIAL: Biden is President. The labor movement must demand more than a return to “normal.

by Justin | Jan 20, 2021 | Collective Bargaining, Department of Labor, NLRB, Opinion, President Joseph Biden

While Joe Biden has a much longer track record of supporting labor unions than Trump — a low bar to clear — his support has often been superficial at best. Biden never met a trade deal that he didn’t love, even when they would gut working class communities...

Breaking Down The PRO Act

by Justin | Jan 18, 2021 | Collective Bargaining, Department of Labor, NLRB, Organizing, President Joseph Biden

A lot has been written about the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act since it passed the House of Representatives in February 2020, but I have yet to find a detailed breakdown of the bill’s proposed amendments to the National Labor Relations Act that is...

OPINION: Fire NLRB General Counsel Peter Robb On Day One

by Justin | Jan 15, 2021 | Collective Bargaining, NLRB, Opinion, President Joseph Biden

If Biden is serious about making his first hundred days among the most consequential since the beginning of the New Deal, trade unionists should make their expectations known and hold him accountable to them. It isn’t enough to say you’re a “union guy.” Delivering for...