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Strikes
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San Antonio Employment Law Blog
Distrust Breeds Strikes
The workers at Tesoro Refineries and other refineries have gone on strike. The companies were engaged in talks to avoid a strike, but the talks broke down. Is that surprising?…
Global Workplace Insider
Der arbeitsrechtliche Hintergrund der derzeitigen Streiks bei der Bahn
By Russell Kott
Arg strapaziert wird derzeit der Geduldsfaden der Bahnkunden – über Tage hinweg legten Gewerkschaften den Bahnverkehr mit Streiks lahm. Da eine Einigung der Lokführergewerkschaft GdL bzw. der Eisenbahnergewerkschaft EVG mit…
Employment Law Worldview
US Labor Board Blesses Picket Line Crotch Grabbing
The National Labor Relations Board ("NLRB") ruled that Illinois Consolidated Telephone Co. violated the National Labor Relations Act when it suspended striking switchman Eric Walters for making an obscene gesture. …
Global Workplace Insider
May a call to strike be distributed via the employer’s intranet?
The German Federal Labour Court recently held that an employee is not entitled to use an email account that has been provided to him by his or her employer for…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Top 10 in Law Blogs: Time to Give Thanks, Leasing Trends, Gift Cards for Striking
Before we all head off for the extended Thanksgiving break—if you're traveling, stay safe—let's run down one last Top 10. Also, over on LXBN TV, Claire Mitchell joins me to…
Vorys on Labor
Union Can Offer Gift Card to Entice Employees to Strike, says NLRB’s GC
By Nelson Cary
Yesterday, this blog covered an advice memorandum released by the NLRB’s General Counsel finding that Wal-Mart didn’t violate the law in responding to mass demonstrations and picketing by union-sponsored groups. Today,…
Global Workplace Insider
Proposed amendments to the Labour Relations Act and review applications
Much has been said about the proposed amendments to the Labour Relations Act, 1995 (LRA) regarding collective issues, such as strikes, picketing and labour broking. There are however a number…
Global Workplace Insider
Strike ballots struck out of Labour Relations Amendment Bill
After surviving a three year consultation process and hefty deliberations in the National Economic Development and Labour Council, strike ballot provisions were voted out of the Labour Relations Amendment Bill…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Should Colleges Train Scabs
One of my favorite bloggers on higher education, Dean Dad at Confessions of a Community College Dean, asks: Should a public college partner with a private company to train scabs? …
Healthcare Workplace Update
Deceptive Home Health Aides Not Entitled to Reinstatement, Federal Court Rules
Home health aides who deceived their employer about their intention to strike created a reasonably foreseeable risk of imminent danger to their patients and were not entitled to be reinstated…