Topic
Bargaining Units
55 published works
Hunton Retail Law Resource
Business Groups Support Boeing’s Appeal in Controversial NLRB Bargaining Unit Case
Many in the labor community are familiar with the Machinists Union’s long running effort to unionize Boeing’s South Carolina-based 787 Dreamliner manufacturing facility. After failing in two previous attempts to…
Labor & Collective Bargaining
New NLRB GC Opens Door to Possible Widespread Bargaining Unit Changes
By Howard M. Bloom, Jonathan J. Spitz, Philip B. Rosen
The National Labor Relations Board General Counsel’s Division of Operations Management has issued a sweeping Memorandum to Regional Offices setting forth a variety of circumstances under which those offices should…
Hunton Employment & Labor Perspectives
NLRB Overturns Prior Precedent, Eliminates “Micro Units” and Discards “Overwhelming Community of Interest” Standard
By Michael Reed, Kurt G. Larkin
During a week that brought several notable decisions, the National Labor Relations Board issued a ruling on Friday, December 15, 2017, overturning its controversial 2011 Specialty Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center…
The Employer Report
NLRB Rounds Out Return To Pre-Obama Standards With Duty to Bargain And Unit Determination Decisions
By Ryan H. Vann
The NLRB closed out its busy week of reversing Obama-era standards in two more high-profile decisions, this time addressing the duty to bargain and bargaining unit determination (see our previous…
Employer Labor Relations
THE BIG(ger) BA(rgaini)NG THEORY
By: Bradford L. Livingston, Esq. In yet another significant decision overturning a controversial Obama-era ruling, the NLRB has reverted to its prior standards in determining what will be an…
Labor Relations Update
“Micro-Units” Eliminated: NLRB Overturns Specialty Healthcare
By Michael Lebowich, Lee Douthitt
Adding to the list of falling precedents in the waning days of Chairman Miscimarra’s term, on Friday, the NLRB reversed another of the seminal decisions of the Obama-Board when it…
Labor & Collective Bargaining
Board Overrules Specialty Healthcare
By Howard M. Bloom, Philip B. Rosen
In a stunning development, the National Labor Relations Board has overruled Specialty Healthcare, the so-called “micro-unit” decision and replaced the “overwhelming community-of-interest” standard adopted there with the traditional “community-of-interest” standard…
Labor & Employment Law Blog
NLRB Overrules Browning-Ferris Joint Employer Standard
Yesterday, the National Labor Relations Board (“Board”) overruled Browning-Ferris Industries, 362 NLRB No. 186 (2015) (“BFI”) and returned to the pre-BFI standard that governed joint employer liability. Hy-Brand Industrial Contractors…
Global Workplace Insider
Ontario Bill 148, as amended, cuts back on proposals authorizing the Board to review the structure of bargaining units
Ontario is one of a few Canadian jurisdictions that does not give its labour board the general authority to review, consolidate and otherwise amend bargaining units. In the Changing…
Management Memo
DC Circuit Rejects Challenge to NLRB Specialty Healthcare “Micro Bargaining Unit” Holdings
By Steven M. Swirsky, Patricia A. Wheeler
The DC Circuit Court, in its August 11th decision in Rhino Northwest, LLC v NLRB has found that the NLRB’s 2011 Specialty Healthcare decision revisiting the Board’s standards for determining…