by Justin | Jan 5, 2021 | Collective Bargaining, Google, NLRB
On Monday morning, news broke that a group of 200-some Google employees had signed authorization cards with the CWA and officially formed the “Alphabet Workers Union.” The workers are apparently dubbing their labor organization a “minority” union, which will assumedly...
by Justin | Dec 31, 2020 | Collective Bargaining, Department of Labor, NLRB
This post will be comprised of three parts: (1) what is a Joy Silk bargaining order; (2) how did NLRB v. Gissel Packing Co. water down the bargaining order remedy; and (3) why did this shift in the remedy matter for our national labor policy. I hope it will become...
by Justin | Dec 29, 2020 | Museum Workers, NLRB, Organizing, UAW Local 2110
The result of a unionization vote this month by 23 Portland Museum of Art employees remains unknown pending a museum management appeal to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The mail-in election was held to decide whether the employees should join Technical,...
by Justin | Dec 11, 2020 | Collective Bargaining, EPI, NLRB
A full appreciation of the need for comprehensive labor law reform requires an understanding of the serious shortcomings in current law and how they have been exploited over the years by employers resisting efforts by their workers to form unions. Structural...
by Justin | Dec 8, 2020 | Collective Bargaining, Labor Notes, NLRB, President Donald Trump, President Joseph Biden
Unions are hoping that President-elect Joe Biden quickly takes control of the National Labor Relations Board and launches a new era of federal labor policy. Over the past four years, a cabal of Trump appointees, determined to rewrite U.S. labor law, has run the NLRB...
by Justin | Dec 3, 2020 | NLRB, Organizing, President Donald Trump
When a union comes into a workplace, the best-case scenario is that the employer doesn’t actively fight them. This has been the case for decades as some employers agree to stay neutral in a union election. At the Yotel Boston hotel, the company signed an agreement...
