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Bargaining Units
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Labor & Employment Report
Specialty Healthcare Watch: Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding (Part I)
Editors Note: This is the latest installment in the Labor & Employment Report's regular feature "Specialty Healthcare Watch." In Speciality Healthcare, the NLRB redefined the test for what constitutes an appropriate…
Employer Labor Relations
Another Gift to the Unions–A Made to Order Bargaining Unit of the Union’s Choosing
By: Bradford L. Livingston The bargaining unit is central to labor relations. After all, a union must bargain on behalf of someone, and exactly who that union organizes ─ which…
Labor & Employment Report
Specialty Healthcare Watch: Odwalla Inc.
In this first edition of Specialty Healthcare Watch, I will examine the first case that applied Specality Healthcare, Odwalla Inc., 357 NLRB No. 132 (2011). This case starts off by answering…
California Employment Law
NLRB Decision on Non-Acute Care Bargaining Units Could Have Big Impact
The NLRB decision in August in the case of Specialty Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center of Mobile radically changed the course of unit clarification decisions in non-acute health care organizations. In their decision,…
BeLabor the Point
Microbreweries Are Good; Micro-Bargaining Units Aren’t
I’m no beer aficionado but every now and then I enjoy a Purple Haze, an American-style wheat beer from a microbrewery just outside of New Orleans. What employers will probably…
Vorys on Labor
NLRB Overrules 20-Year-Old Standard for Bargaining Units in Non-Acute Health Care Facilities
By Nelson Cary
By Nelson Cary and Micah Dawson After identifying issues neither the union nor the employer raised, and inviting interested parties to submit briefs on those issues, the NLRB has issued a…
Labor & Collective Bargaining
NLRB Announces New Standard for Bargaining Units in Non-Acute Healthcare Facilities; Allows Single-Classification Unit Consisting Only of CNAs
On August 30 the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued its long-awaited decision in Specialty Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center of Mobile, in which it announced a new standard for determining…
Labor Relations Update
Briefs filed in NLRB’s Specialty Healthcare case
What a difference a few months can make. Last December, in Specialty Healtcare and Rehabilitation of Mobile the NLRB invited interested parties to file briefs to consider a number of questions…
Labor Law Prof Blog
NLRB Reconsidering Long-Term Care Facility (and Possibly Other) Unit Determinations
The NLRB has recently invited briefs in Specialty Healthcare, with regard to how the Board should determine appropriate units in long-term care facilities. The Board's press release does a good…
Labor & Collective Bargaining
NLRB to Take Another Look at Bargaining Unit Decision-Making and Employers Won’t Like It
The National Labor Relations Board’s activist majority has sprung yet another holiday season surprise. Employers probably won’t find in it a gift to their liking. The Board announced on December…