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Strikes
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Management Memo
NLRB Shifts Power Toward Unions During Strikes – Employment Law This Week
Featured on Employment Law This Week: The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) finds the hiring of permanent replacements for strikers to be an unfair labor practice. In a 2-1 decision…
Employer Labor Relations
A Costly Lesson for Employers on Replacement Workers
By Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Seyfarth Shaw LLP
By: Howard M. Wexler, Samuel Sverdlov & Kyllan B. Kershaw Seyfarth Synopsis: Board panel found that long-term care facility acted for an “independent unlawful purpose” when it permanently replaced striking…
Management Memo
NLRB Curtails Employers’ Right to Hire Permanent Replacements for Strikers – Bolsters Unions’ Ability to Use Intermittent Strikes
The National Labor Relations Board, in a 2-1 decision by Chairman Mark Pearce and Member Kent Hirozawa, in American Baptist Homes of the West, 364 NLRB No. 13, has adopted…
The Right Coast
Why what’s happening in France isn’t ‘just another French strike’ – CSMonitor.com
Paris Fuel shortages, cancelled flights, disrupted trains: France is on strike yet again. The stakes get higher each day. The Euro 2016 soccer championship, which will see hundreds of thousands…
Labor & Employment Insights
Can Your Non-Union Workers Strike? Yes, They Can.
If your employees don’t have a union and they stop working, can you discipline them? In a recent decision, an Administrative Law Judge for the National Labor Relations Board said…
Global Workplace Insider
Replacement labour: what happens when the strike ends, but the lockout continues?
This article was written by Lara Kerbelker, an associate at Norton Rose Fulbright South Africa On 6 October 2015, the Labour Court handed down judgment in SACCAWU v Sun International,…
Employment Law Worldview
UK Trade Unions get the Bill for transport strikes
Here is a short guide to the main provisions of the Trade Union Bill which went through its first reading in Parliament earlier this week. The Bill is either a…
Employment Law Watch
UK Government reveals new legislative programme – Implications for employment law
Following the unexpected victory by the Conservatives in the UK general election on 7 May, the Government has announced its programme for the next session of Parliament. Amongst its proposals,…
Vorys on Labor
Ohio Public Employers Beware: Striker Replacement Workers’ Records Open to Public Records Request
By Nelson Cary, George Stevens
Just under a year ago, a teachers’ strike at Strongsville City Schools ended. The strike lasted nearly two months. During the strike, the school board hired replacement teachers. Throughout the…
Education Law Prof Blog
With Constitutional Litigation and Strikes Loomings, LAUSD Negotiations with Teachers Hit Impasse
By Derek Black
Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation's second largest school district, is the epicenter of the nation's fight over teacher tenure, with plaintiffs arguing that tenure rights that prevent schools…