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Unfair labor practice

Labor Relations: The Rules Have Changed | BusinessWest

October 1, 2011

In Collective Bargaining, Employers Have to Watch What They Say This article by Frederick sullivan is one of the most timely and interesting pieces on the mechanics of collective bargaining language that I have seen in a long time.  Now more than ever, labor relations practitioners have to think not only about what they say, [...]

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Court of Appeals enforces NLRB order, finds investment fund manager jointly liable for unlawful acts at Hawaii resort

September 30, 2011

NLRB rules against company AND private equity firm jointly From an NLRB press release this afternoon.   Managers at private equity firms need to pay attention to this! The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has enforced a National Labor Relations Board order finding that Oaktree Capital Management, L.P., an asset manager for [...]

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Breaking: NLRB settlement imposes heavy employer remedies

February 28, 2011

Board imposes heavy remedies on Missouri company The National Labor Relations Board has been discussing using more strict employer remedies in recent days, and a case they just settled contains many of these remedies, including requiring a company executive to read the terms of the settlement aloud before all employees, and granting access to the [...]

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Union to pay millions for illegally obtaining workers private information

February 28, 2011

Union accessed worker’s home addresses illegally A union is going to have to pay millions of dollars for imporporerly obtaining the home addresses of employees at the Cintas company, according to this story from the Courthouse News Service: A textile union must pay more than $4 million under the settlement of a federal class action that [...]

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NLRB “Facebook” free speech case settled

February 7, 2011

American Medical Response of Connecticut, Inc. case ends in settlement The NLRB has released the following press release announcing the settlement.   Thanks to my friend Seth Borden over at Labor Relations Today for letting me know about this right away!  Click the link for Seth’s blog. He has some great analysis of this case, and [...]

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Eye on the NLRB: how agency rulemaking could affect your business

January 27, 2011

NLRB trying to make big changes? This post was written by Peter List of Labor Union Report with the title NLRB Moves to Humiliate Employers, Give Unions Access to Employees & Property.  I am reposting it here with his permission.     For that, he has my thanks. While the article is very long, I thought it was worth sharing [...]

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Building the Employee Free Choice Act one brick at a time?

December 7, 2010

Image via Wikipedia New decision by NLRB approves “sweetheart contracts” for unions Prolific labor relations and political blogger Peter List of  Labor Union Report has posted an important article today about a newly released decision by the National Labor Relations Board.   The stuff List is reporting on is very much the stuff that makes labor relations people geek out, [...]

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National Labor Relations Board issues complaint over “card check” violations

November 2, 2010

Unfair Labor Practice Charges consolidated, remedy sought The NLRB is really busy these days.    The story below, clipped from the Jobs with Justice blog explains how the National Labor Relations Board has taken a number of separately filed charges and consolidated them nationally into an Unfair Labor Practice case against Regis. From the Jobs with [...]

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The National Labor Relations Board can cost you money!

July 13, 2010

Image via Wikipedia Two Texas employees settle for $900,000 Many HR people never have an occassion to hear from the National Labor Relations Board.  If and when you do, it is easy to consider them to be a somewhat obscure organization with little authority. Here is a reason for you to perk up and take [...]

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