Topic
Unionism
371 published works
Cannabis Law Blog
Organized Labor Rolls Up To The Michigan Cannabis Industry
By Brett Gelbord, Robert Boonin
Earlier this month, a cannabis company located in Manistee, Michigan, announced that its dispensary workers successfully unionized, marking the first instance of organized labor in the state’s cannabis industry. The…
Ohio Employer Law Blog
Starbucks employees are trying to “kick down the door” across the entire food and beverage service industry
Less than one and one-half miles away from the flagship Starbucks that launched a global coffee empire five decades ago, employees unanimously voted for their shop to unionize. It became…
Ohio Employer Law Blog
In a stunning move, billion-dollar Starbucks investors urge the coffee retailer to go “union neutral”
Trillium Asset Management, which holds $48 million of Starbucks stock, is leading the charge on behalf of a billion-dollar-plus group of investors to push the coffee retailer to adopt a…
The Bargaining Table
Sentence First, Verdict Later!
By Christian White, Todd Dawson
NLRB Orders Employer To Grant Undetermined Wage Increase These days, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board) just gets curiouser and curiouser. In one of its latest adventures on…
Frieser Legal Insights
Square Peg in a Round Hole: The Challenge of College Athlete Unionization
With the 2022 NCAA Convention having concluded, sweeping legislation was considered and passed. The membership voted to approve a new constitution for the Association. The decentralizing move gives more rulemaking authority to…
Labor Days
Are Your Doctors Poised for an Organizing Push? A Recent NLRB Decision May Provide Some Incentive
Generally speaking, most healthcare employers would not think that their employed physicians are at risk for unionization. As opposed to interns and residents, who have experienced their own unionization push…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Two-Year Battle Ends as DOJ Reverses Course and Agrees to Recognize Immigration Judges Union
Today, "the Department of Justice’s Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), which administers the U.S. immigration courts, has agreed to a settlement with the National Association of Immigration Judges [NAIJ]…
Ogletree Deakins Insights
Beltway Buzz, July 23, 2021
Senate Committee Examines PRO Act. On July 22, 2021, the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) held a hearing entitled “The Right to Organize: Empowering American…
Employment Law Landscape
And Stay Out! Supreme Court Rules Golden State Regulation Giving Unions Access to Private Farmland Is Unconstitutional Taking
By Trevor M. Jorgensen, Derek Barella
On June 23, the U.S. Supreme Court held that a California provision requiring agricultural employers to allow unionizers onto their property violated the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments – a clear…
Pay or Play
Film Producers Announce Intention to Unionize–Again
By Jody Simon
A group of over 100 feature film producers have announced their intention to form a labor union. The group is led by producer Rebecca Green (“It Follows”), who says the…