Topic
Unionism
371 published works
Employment & Labor
Are student-athletes university employees? Labor lawyers: No, no they’re not
Football players at Northwestern University took the first steps to create a formal players union last week, raising major labor questions that go beyond whether or not college athletes are…
Labor & Collective Bargaining
Student Gridiron “Workers” Team With Steelworkers To Forge Union at Northwestern
By Howard M. Bloom, Philip B. Rosen, Jackson Lewis P.C.
If the newly formed College Athletes Players Association (“CAPA”) has its way, the union will represent the football players at Northwestern University in Chicago. CAPA wants to represent college athletes…
San Antonio Employment Law Blog
College Football Players Seek to Form a Union
Every so often, I talk with an employee who has been treated badly by his employer, but for whom there is no lawsuit available. S/he has no discrimination claim. The…
Hunton Employment & Labor Perspectives
NLRB Declines To Take Union-Poster Dispute To High Court
On Monday, January 6, 2014, the National Labor Relations Board ("NLRB") announced that it declined to seek U.S. Supreme Court review of two adverse rulings concerning its rule requiring employers…
Labor Relations Today
@LRToday Morning Round-Up: October 25, 2013
By Cary Burke
ALJ Nixes Another Arbitration Policy Per D.R. Horton: Abigail Rubenstein of Law360($$) writes that earlier this week, a National Labor Relations Board Administrative Law Judge held that a mandatory arbitration policy violated Section 7 of…
Vorys on Labor
Court Finds RNs are Supervisors Under the NLRA
By Nelson Cary
By Nelson Cary and James Pauley III An important subject of debate for health care employers is whether an RN can be a “supervisor” under the NLRA. This is a significant…
Employment Law Matters
Fourth Circuit joins D.C. Circuit in striking down the NLRB’s embattled Notification of Employee Rights
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed an April 2012 decision of the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina (Chamber of Commerce v. NLRB, D.S.C.,…
Consumer Finance Monitor
More on CFPB employee vote to unionize
As we reported last week, the National Treasury Employees Union (NTU) won an election to represent over 800 of the CFPB's 1,200 employees. The vote was 378 in favor and…
Consumer Finance Monitor
CFPB employees unionize
According to a report from Politico, CFPB employees voted last week to join the National Treasury Employees Union, a federal union that also represents employees at other financial regulators, including…
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
Breaking: No NLRB Union Posters, Says Appeals Court
A while back, the NLRB proposed that all employers would need to put up posters detailing employee rights to form a union. If employers did not, then the employers could…