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Union Representation
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Labor & Collective Bargaining
Overruling Precedent, Board Finds Violation May Be Established Without Specific Unfair Labor Practice Complaint Allegation
By Robert L. Murphy, Howard M. Bloom, Philip B. Rosen
In a decision having far-reaching implications, a National Labor Relations Board panel consisting of Chairman Mark Gaston Pierce and Members Kent Hirozawa and Lauren McFerran, (Member Miscimarra dissented) has overruled…
Health Law Update
NLRB: Nurses Entitled to Union Representation at Peer Review Meeting
By Robert M. Wolin, Todd Lebowitz
The NLRB, in an August 27, 2015, decision, held that two nurses who were requested to voluntarily appear before a hospital’s Nursing Peer Review Committee were entitled to have their union…
Employer Labor Relations
College Football Unions: The Refs Call Off the Game
By Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Seyfarth Shaw LLP
By: Bradford L. Livingston, Esq. On the eve of a new college football season, the referees at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) got it right on instant replay: they…
Illinois Workers Compensation Law Blog
Is this nurse’s union acting in the best interests of their members?
By Mike Helfand
The other day a Chicago nurse called me hoping that I or someone I know could take over her workers' compensation case. I asked her who her attorney was and…
Labor & Collective Bargaining
NLRB Expands Remedies for Employer’s Violation of Employee’s Weingarten Rights
By Howard M. Bloom, Philip B. Rosen
The NLRB has issued a decision allowing new remedies -- reinstatement and back pay (“make-whole relief”) -- for certain violations of an employee’s “Weingarten” rights. E.I. Dupont de Nemours &…
Labor & Employment Law Blog
The NLRB’s Changes to Representation Case Procedures
By Eric Raphan
Beginning on April 14, 2015, the National Labor Relations Board’s (“NLRB” or the “Board”) new representation case procedural rules will be applied to all representation petitions filed thereafter. While the…
Labor Relations Law Insider
Search First, Ask Questions Later
By Kayt Kopen
A recent Advice Memorandum from the NLRB’s Office of the General Counsel suggests that a worker’s right to Union representation during an investigatory interview attaches to a search conducted in…
Collegiate & Professional Sports Law Blog
UPDATE-Michigan Excludes Student-Athletes from Unions
By Patrick L. Egan, Howard M. Bloom, Gregg E. Clifton
Michigan has become the first state to exclude intercollegiate student-athletes at its public universities from the definition of a “public employee,” and therefore, the right to bargain collectively through a…
Labor Law Prof Blog
New NLRB Representation Rules
Doesn't the NLRB know this is a busy week for me? First was yesterday's e-mail decision in Purple Communications. Today, the NLRB released new final rules to reform the representation process.…
The Labor Dish
NLRB Toasts Chicago Bakery On English-Spanish Translation
By DLA Piper
Mistranslation is both innocent and ubiquitous. Mark Twain had fun with the mistranslations of one of his short stories into French. Indeed, literary superstars frequently acknowledge that translations are invariably…