NLRB issues significant decisions in recent weeks
The National Labor Relations Board this week made public a number of significant decisions, most reached in the final days of the term of Member Brian Hayes, which ended on December 16. The Board...
View ArticleNLRB requires balancing of employer confidentiality interests and a union’s...
The National Labor Relations Board has ruled that, in considering whether an employer is obligated to provide witness statements to a union representing an employee concerning discipline, the Board...
View ArticleSettlement ends long-running dispute at Florida performing arts center
NLRB Regional Director Margaret J. Diaz today approved the resolution of all pending litigation in a long-running dispute between the Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. in West Palm...
View ArticleActing General Counsel releases summary of operations for FY 2012
Acting General Counsel Lafe Solomon has released a summary of activities for the Fiscal Year 2012.read more
View ArticleStatement by Chairman Pearce on recess appointment ruling
Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit issued a decision finding that the Jan. 4, 2012 recess appointments of three members to the National Labor Relations Board were invalid. In response,...
View ArticleNLRB charge alleging illegal picketing at Wal-Mart held in abeyance
The NLRB Office of General Counsel today announced that, based on specific commitments made by the United Food and Commercial Workers union, it is not necessary to decide the merits of an unfair labor...
View ArticleNLRB Office of General Counsel finds NY bus strike not unlawful
The NLRB Office of General Counsel has found that a strike by union bus operators against a group of New York school bus companies does not violate the National Labor Relations Act because the union...
View ArticleSettlements approved in Pittsburgh hospital cases
The NLRB Office of General Counsel today approved settlement agreements between two UPMC hospitals and the Service Employees International Union that resolves most charges filed by the union.read more
View ArticleNLRB sets re-run election at Kaiser Permanente to begin April 5
Director Will Baudler of Region 32 (Oakland) of the National Labor Relations Board has scheduled a re-run union election involving about 45,000 employees of Kaiser Permanente in California.read more
View ArticleBoard finds Houston engineering firm unlawfully fired employee for discussing...
The National Labor Relations Board has found that a Texas engineering firm unlawfully fired an employee for discussing salary information with co-workers, and ordered the company to offer reinstatement...
View ArticleNLRB To Seek Supreme Court Review in Noel Canning v. NLRB
The National Labor Relations Board has determined not to seek en banc rehearing in NoelCanning v. NLRB, in which the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit held that the January 4, 2012 recess...
View ArticleActing General Counsel proposes additional regional office restructuring
National Labor Relations Board Acting General Counsel Lafe Solomon announced that he is considering a proposal to reorganize four Regional offices as part of an ongoing effort by the Agency to explore...
View ArticleNLRB Judge finds union unlawfully caused discharge of HR manager
An NLRB Administrative Law Judge has found that a labor union violated the National Labor Relations Act when it conditioned the granting of concessions in collective-bargaining with the discharge of a...
View ArticlePresident Obama announces intent to nominate three additional Board members
Today, President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate three additional individuals to serve as Members of the National Labor Relations Board, which will bring the number of pending nominations...
View ArticleNew Jersey hospital employees vote to retain union
In an election conducted April 7 and 8 by the Newark office of the National Labor Relations Board, health care employees at medical facilities in Millburn, Wall and Toms River, New Jersey, voted...
View ArticleKaiser Election Results: SEIU-UHW Prevails
A statewide group of Kaiser healthcare employees voted in favor of retaining their current bargaining representative, SEIU-United Healthcare Workers-West (SEIU-UHW), rather than switching to its rival...
View ArticleRepresentation Election scheduled involving hundreds of Patient Service...
The Newark office of the National Labor Relations Board has made arrangements to conduct a representation election among nearly 300 Patient Service Technicians and Patient Center Site Coordinators...
View ArticleU.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions hearing on...
Click here to view the video and opening statements for the May 16, 2013 Senate committee hearing on pending nominations to the National Labor Relations Board.
View ArticleTexas plastic surgery center settles charges of unlawful firings and retaliation
A plastic surgery center in Dallas has agreed to pay more than $300,000 to settle charges that it unlawfully fired two employees and then sued one of them in state court after she sought help from the...
View ArticleStatement of National Labor Relations Board Chairman Mark Gaston Pearce on...
"Seventy-eight years ago this week, President Franklin D.read more
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