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12/30/2024: Non-Disparagement Rule in Severance Agreement Illegal

12/26/2024: More Starbucks Unfair Labor Practices

12/25/2024: FedEx Remains Outside NLRA Jurisdiction

12/20/2024: Fake Safety Concerns Do Not Negate Right to Wear Union Stickers

12/19/2024: The Never-Ending Coercive Rules Case

12/18/2024: Two Cases Involving Illegal Partial Business Closures

12/17/2024: Cemex Bargaining Order for Employer That Increased Wages During Organizing Campaign

12/16/2024: Unilateral Wage Increase Violated NLRA

12/13/2024: Still Illegal to Fire Workers for Discussing Wages

Manchin and Sinema Block Democratic Majority at NLRB

12/11/2024: Board Reinstates "Clear and Unmistakable Waiver" Standard

12/10/2024: Still Illegal to Fire Striking Workers

12/06/2024: Weed Company Claims NLRA Does Not Apply to Illegal Businesses

12/02/2024: United States Postal Service Challenges Constitutionality of NLRB Make-Whole Remedy

11/27/2024: GC Memo Emphasizes Importance of Vindicating Public Rights in Settlement Agreements

11/26/2024: Employees in Two Bargaining Units Simultaneously

11/25/2024: ExxonMobil's Lockout of Workers During Decertification Push Was Legal

11/22/2024: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Engaged in Bad Faith Bargaining

Defending Another Illegal Employer Lawsuit

11/15/2024: NLRB Rules Captive-Audience Meetings Are Illegal

11/12/2024: Employers Can No Longer Lie About Effect of Unionizing on Employee-Employer Relationship

11/08/2024: ALJ Orders Amazon to Hold Third Election in Bessemer, AL Facility

Successes

My Victory Over Bloomberg

Another Trump NLRB

11/04/2024: 36 Illegally Fired Workers Get Reimbursed 10 Years Later

Judge Dismisses Steven Crowder Lawsuit, Orders Crowder to Pay $58,000

10/28/2024: Another Starbucks Case

10/25/2024: Three Armour-Globe Self-Determination Elections

10/23/2024: Employer Had Illegal Dress Code Forbidding Union Insignias

10/21/2024: ALJ Hits Starbucks With Cemex Bargaining Order

10/21/2024: Employer's Defamation Lawsuit Against Union Was Illegal

10/14/2024: Predecessor Employer's Recognition of Union Was a Sham

10/11/2024: Application of Stericycle and McLaren Macomb in ALJ Case

Amusing Legal Problem Caused by Constitutional Challenges to NLRB

10/09/2024: Trader Joe's Union Decertification Petition Rejected

NLRB GC Issues More Guidance on Non-Competes and Stay-or-Pay Clauses

10/07/2024: Tesla's Acceptable Use Policy Does Not Violate NLRA

10/04/2024: Starbucks CEO Violated NLRA By Inviting Employee to Quit

10/02/2024: Managerial Status, Supervisory Status, Unilateral Change, Decertification

10/01/2024: Religious Employer Exemption, Misclassification, Salting

09/26/2024: Employer Rule Governing Off-Duty Conduct of Workers Is Illegal

Audubon Society Argues NLRB Is Unconstitutional

09/22/2024: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Ordered to Reimburse Union Bargain Expenses

09/20/2020: Starbucks Illegally Banned and Discarded Union Materials

09/19/2024: More Illegal Subpoena Requests from Starbucks

09/18/2024: Board Issues Gissel Bargaining Order

Update on Constitutional Challenges to the NLRB

09/16/2024: ALJ Orders Starbucks to Reopen Two Illegally Closed Stores

09/12/2024: Self-Determination Election Ordered for Walt Disney

09/09/2024: Starbucks Issued Illegal Subpoenas

09/04/2024: Two Contract Bars!

08/31/2024: Fresenius's Wage Increase During Organizing Campaign Was Not Unlawful

08/30/2024: Board Rejects Amazon's Election Objections

08/29/2024: The Starbucks Dress Code Is Illegal

08/28/2024: Two Retaliation Cases

08/26/2024: The End of Consent Orders

I Have a Piece in the New York Times

08/20/2024: Legal Services Attorneys Not Supervisors

08/19/2024: Starbucks Case Suggests Board Will Soon Overturn Care One

NLRB Judge Found the ACLU Illegally Fired Worker for Criticizing Management

08/07/2024: Reconciling Unions' Right to Request Information with FERPA Student Privacy Law

08/06/2024: Yet Another Starbucks Case

08/05/2024: OM Memo Says Charging Parties Can Use Chosen Names on Charge Forms

08/02/2024: UFCW Walks Away From Walgreens Unit

08/01/2024: Unit Clarification Not Appropriate for Seattle Convention Center Riggers

What The Constitutional Challenge to the NLRB Actually Amounts To

07/31/2024: An Advice Memo About Statements Made in Settlement Talks

07/30/2024: Starbucks Subpoenas Did Not Violate NLRA

07/29/2024: Board Clarifies Jefferson Standard Test for Protected Disparagement

SpaceX Wins Preliminary Injunction Against NLRB Arguing Agency Is Unconstitutional

07/24/2024: Starbucks Illegally Denied Raises and Credit Card Tipping to Unionized Workers

07/23/2024: Confidentiality and Non-Disparagement Rule in Facebook Severance Agreement Illegal Despite Savings Clause

I Filed an Unfair Labor Practice Charge Against the NBA, Knicks

My Victory Over Fred Meyer

07/19/2024: Retail Employer Was Too Small For NLRB to Assert Jurisdiction

07/18/2024: GC Responds to Supreme Court Decision on 10(j) Injunctions

07/16/2024: Union Election Ordered for Jollibee Store in Jersey City

07/12/2024: Trader Joes Illegally Fired Worker for Complaining About Working Conditions

07/04/2024: More Starbucks Nonsense

07/02/2024: Two Supreme Court Decisions and Two Advice Memos

ACLU Boss Compares Subordinate's Criticism of Him to Lynching of Emmett Till

06/27/2024: An Illegal Nondisparagement and Confidentiality Clause in a Severance Agreement

06/26/2024: Election Scheduled at The Queen in Wilmington, DE

06/25/2024: At What Point Does a Nascent Worker Group Become a "Labor Organization"?

Update on the Steven Crowder Legal Battle

06/21/2024: Charter School Operator KIPP Hired Union-Busting Firm That Made Illegal Threats

06/19/2024: The First Cemex Bargaining Order

06/16/2024: Two More Starbucks Cases

In First Case of its Kind, NLRB Judge Declares Non-Compete Clause Is an Unfair Labor Practice

06/14/2024: Supreme Court Clarifies Section 10(j) Preliminary Injunction Standard

06/13/2024: Starbucks Found to Have 24 Illegal Work Rules

06/06/2024: Disciplining a Non-Union Supporter to Disguise Discrimination Against Union Supporters is Illegal

06/05/2024: Unilateral Change, Mid-Term Modification, and Breach of Contract: What's the Difference?

06/04/2024: More Starbucks ULPs. Confidential Employees and Supervisors.

Wall Street Journal Is Mad at Well-Decided NLRB Case

05/31/2024: Bad Faith Bargaining, Successor Employer, and an Advice Memo

I Have Filed Unfair Labor Practice Charges Against Bloomberg

05/28/2024: An Odd Construction Union Case

05/23/2024: Union Election Coming at Alamo Drafthouse

05/22/2024: If You Are Going to Cuss, Do It While Engaging In Protected Activity

05/20/2024: UPS and Amazon With Some Classic ULPs

05/17/2024: A Clarification on Cemex Bargaining Order Process

05/16/2024: Walmart Violated Act by Telling Employee Not to Discuss Discipline

District Court Orders First Ever Preliminary Injunction in Cemex Case

05/15/2024: Default Judgment, Self-Determination Election

05/14/2024: Three More Starbucks Cases

I Have Filed Unfair Labor Practice Charges Against Cult Leader Bentinho Massaro

05/10/2024: Discontinuing Christmas Hams In Retaliation for Union Activity Is Illegal

05/09/2024: Constructive Discharge, Coercive Statements, Fake Unions

05/07/2024: Apple Engaged in Illegal Interrogation of Union Activist

05/06/2024: Union Election Coming at Legoland California

05/03/2024: A Rogue ALJ Refuses to Apply New Coercive Rules Standard Retroactively

05/02/2024: Getting a Restraining Order Against a Worker Can be an Unfair Labor Practice

05/01/2024: Putting the Union President on Unpaid Leave in Retaliation Is Illegal

04/30/2024: A Rare WH Case. A Close Duty of Fair Representation Case.

04/29/2024: Starbucks, Starbucks, Starbucks, and an HOA

04/26/2024: A Multi-Facility Unit Gets an Election

04/23/2024: More Wright Line and American Steel

04/19/2024: Amazon Settles With Unlawfully Fired Worker for Over $42,000

Did Google Violate the NLRA When It Fired 28 Workers Protesting Israel Contract?

Did Aramark Violate the NLRA by Telling Oakland A's Concession Workers Not to Talk to Press?

04/18/2024: Another Starbucks Unfair Labor Practice

Regional Director Finds Merit in Recent Charge Against ACLU

04/17/2024: More Illegal Deposition Requests

04/16/2023: Employer Did Not Demonstrate an Imminent Closure

Some Interesting Monetary Remedies the NLRB Has Recently Gotten

04/12/2024: Whole Foods Made Illegal Discovery Requests in Title VII Suit

04/11/2024: Board Reverses Region's Decision to Exclude Some UPenn Grad Students

04/09/2024: A Very Fun Cemex Bargaining Order

04/08/2024: Regions Order Three More Elections

ACLU Management Allegedly Instructed Staffers Not to Discuss ULP Case

04/05/2024: American Federation for Children Goes on ULP Spree.

04/03/2024: New Bench Book Released.

04/02/2024: High Interest Rates Increase NLRB Penalties

04/02/2024: Election Directed at USC Student Health Center.

I Have Filed Unfair Labor Practice Charges Against Louder With Crowder

04/01/2024: Amazon's Illegal Off-Duty Access Rule.

03/29/2024: Union Election Minutiae.

03/28/2024: Amazon's Illegal Subpoenas.

Is the NLRB Unconstitutional?

03/25/2024: Union Staff Are Not Managers.

03/25/2024: Boeing Fired Flight Training Instructors for Supporting the Union.

03/22/2024: Kroger Illegally Stopped Dues Checkoff

03/20/2024: The NLRA Protects Former Employees Too.

03/20/2024: Offensive Statements After Discharge Do Not Preclude Reinstatement.

03/19/2024: Medieval Times Union Backs Out. A Combined Professional/Non-Professional Unit.

The ACLU Is Attacking Free Speech at the NLRB

03/18/2024: Employer Accepts New Make-Whole Remedy. More Illegal Rules.

The ACLU's Push to Expand Arbitration Deferral Needs to Stop

03/15/2024: Starbucks Challenges Constitutionality of Administrative Make-Whole Remedies.

03/14/2024: Default Judgment. Employer Successfully Challenges Unit Definition.

Reader Question: What Can an Employer Do to Promote Unionization?

03/12/2024: Starbucks Decertification Attempts. More Guard Mayhem.

03/11/2024: SpaceX Claims It Is an Airliner. Excluded Worker Categories.

What Happened to the NLRB's Move Against Non-Compete Clauses?

The ACLU Is Trying to Destroy the Biden NLRB

March 8, 2024: Threats and Interrogations Still Illegal. Shrewd ULP Strike.

March 7, 2024: No Arbitration Deferral for ACLU. Board Dodges Captive Audience Issue.

March 6, 2024: Nurse Not Supervisor. No Extraordinary Relief for Dartmouth.

College Athlete Unions Under the NLRA

Can You Display "Black Lives Matter" On Your Work Uniform?

NLRB Processing Times Have Dramatically Increased

Introducing NLRB Edge