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Unionism
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Hiring To Firing Law Blog
Two New NLRB Decisions Allow Employers to Limit Use of Its Email System and Preserve Confidentiality of Workplace Investigations
Q: What is the current rule on whether an employee can use our company’s email system to distribute union material? Also, are we permitted to require employees to keep workplace…
Management Memo
California Puts a Foot On the Scale to Drive Unionization Higher: AB 1291 Mandates State-Sponsored Assistance in Organizing Cannabis Employees
By Adam C. Abrahms, Christina C. Rentz
As private sector unionization rates have continued to fall over recent decades, organized labor has increasingly turned to the state and local politicians it supports for assistance in the form…
Sports Agent Blog
NBPA and G League Push Towards Unionization
Reports have recently surfaced that the National Basketball Players Association and the G League (effectively the NBA’s developmental league) have had serious discussions towards unionization. It was reported by The…
Labor & Employment Law Blog
Christmas Comes Early for Employers at the NLRB — New Election Procedures That Give Employers a Greater Opportunity to Mount Legal Challenges to Election Petitions and to Effectively Campaign Against Unionization
By Keahn Morris, Mark Ross, John Bolesta
On the eve of the holidays, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) delivered an early Christmas present to employers with its issuance of new regulations governing the NLRB election process. …
Who Is My Employee?
NLRB Wants New Rule To Prevent Student Teaching Assistants From Joining Unions
Summer may be over, but the National Labor Relations Board isn’t ready to put away its flip flops. It’s been a busy few months, with the NLRB releasing a number…
Labor & Employment Law Navigator
NLRB Changes Stance on Private University Student Unions
The National Labor Relations Board (the “Board” or “NLRB”) has issued notice that it will propose a new rule establishing that students who perform any services for compensation, including, but…
Vorys on Labor
NLRB Proposed Rule States Graduate Students Are Not Employees
Last week, by a 3-1 vote, the NLRB approved a proposed rule that would classify graduate students, who conduct paid teaching and research, as students rather than “employees” under federal…
Dickinson Law News
Democratic Presidential Campaigns as “Employers”
By rsamson@dickinsonlaw.com Dickinson Mackaman Tyler Hagen P.C.
Speaking at the Iowa Federation of Labor’s annual convention in mid-August, 2019, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, told Democratic presidential candidates who have been working the state, “If you want our…
Wage & Hour Watch
Democratic Presidential Campaigns as “Employers”
By rsamson@dickinsonlaw.com Dickinson Mackaman Tyler Hagen P.C.
Speaking at the Iowa Federation of Labor’s annual convention in mid-August, 2019, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, told Democratic presidential candidates who have been working the state, “If you want our endorsement…
Dickinson Law News
Democratic Presidential Campaigns as “Employers”
By rsamson@dickinsonlaw.com Dickinson Mackaman Tyler Hagen P.C.
Speaking at the Iowa Federation of Labor’s annual convention in mid-August, 2019, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, told Democratic presidential candidates who have been working the state, “If you want our endorsement…