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Bargaining Units
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School Law
CAS Legal Mailbag – 2/8/24
Originally appeared in the CAS Weekly Newsletter Dear Legal Mailbag: As a faithful reader of “Legal Mailbag,” I read with interest the letter last week about restorative practices (Legal Mailbag 2-1-24)…
HR Defense
Cemex Construction NLRB Decision
By Akerman Law
It’s a cruel summer for employers as the National Labor Relations Board (the “Board”) issued both new election rules, and a landmark decision that upended decades of precedent and lowered…
Ogletree Deakins Insights
NLRB Returns to Specialty Healthcare Bargaining-Unit Determination Standard
In a decision impacting employers that face a petition for election that seeks to represent part of the workforce, a divided National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) returned to its former…
Labor Relations Update
Special Delivery: NLRB Returns to Obama-Era Standard to Limit Employer Ability to Change a Proposed Bargaining Unit
By Michael Lebowich, Joshua Fox, Dixie Morrison
The National Labor Relations Board continues its December precedent merry-go-round with a return to the Specialty Healthcare, 357 NLRB 934 (2011) (“Specialty Healthcare”) standards for bargaining unit determinations. In American…
Labor & Employment Law Blog
NLRB Rings in the New Year by Inviting Briefing on Multiple, Far-Reaching Standards Impacting Employers
By John Bolesta, Keahn Morris, James Hays, Myles Moran*
The National Labor Relations Board (the “NLRB” or “Board”) seemingly took very little time off during the holidays and in the last few weeks announced that it is seeking public…
Labor & Employment Law Blog
NLRB Foreshadows a Return to Union Gerrymandered Bargaining Units
By John Bolesta, Keahn Morris, James Hays, Myles Moran*
As we previously predicted, significant changes are taking place at the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or the “Board”). To date, much of that change has been in the agenda…
Labor Relations Law Insider
Micro-Units Are Back in Healthcare Union Organizing
By Tom Godar
Hospitals and non-acute care settings beware: Micro-Units are about to make their way back into Healthcare Union organizing. Over the coming months, we can expect to see many significant changes…
Management Memo
NLRB Adds New Three-Part Test to Standard for Evaluating Appropriateness of Bargaining Units
By Steven M. Swirsky, Corey P. Argust, Eric I. Emanuelson Jr.
One of the matters of significance to employers and unions under the National Labor Relations Act that became a point of contention under the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or…
Massachusetts Labor & Employment Law
NLRB Places Further Limitations on “Micro Units”
On September 9, 2019, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) clarified its standard for reviewing the appropriateness of small bargaining units within larger workforces, sometimes referred to as “micro units.”…
Labor & Collective Bargaining
Bargaining Unit Can Still Be ‘Micro’ under ‘Community of Interest’ Standard
By Howard M. Bloom, Philip B. Rosen, Jackson Lewis P.C.
After the NLRB adopted a new standard for determining bargaining-unit composition, many expected fewer micro-units would result. PCC Structurals, 365 NLRB No. 160 (2017) (PCC I). However, when the employer…