Labor leaders say a May Supreme Court decision could turn the agency that protects workers into a rubber stamp for President Trump.
Pennsylvania’s largest hospital joins rise in employers citing federal changes to fight unionization.
100 days in, the self-styled champion of the working class has delivered layoffs, trade wars and an erosion of worker protections.
To block a union that would represent 2,500 faculty members, the private university echoed a corporate argument.
Labor board freeze leaves thousands of workers, from Amazon to Trader Joe’s, with few options — prompting some to consider more aggressive tactics.
From Uber and Lyft drivers to home care workers, the fate of far-reaching labor organizing efforts hangs in the balance.
Chamber of Commerce, Restaurant Association claim the law, which labor unions say is meant to prevent coercion, violates free speech.
Trump and running mate JD Vance court workers, but the former president targeted unions and labor rights while in office.
Union elections are up in the year since the labor board created new penalties for law-breaking employers. But an appeal could reverse the decision.
The friendly grocer’s staff are increasingly going union — and say the company is hostile to their efforts.
Weak labor laws allow the coffee giant to avoid contract talks.
Unionizing is not against the law; but the law is against unionizing.
Outdated 1935 federal labor act makes violations hard to prove, penalties easy to pay.
Starbucks founder’s testimony before U.S. Senate committee will be an accountability moment for coffee chain on alleged union busting.
A giant federal contractor’s failure to abide by a settlement is building pressure for Biden to take action.
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The National Labor Relations Board is not just changing workplace rules but reversing longstanding precedents.
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24 Hour Fitness’ policies have brought the fitness chain in the crosshairs of the National Labor Relations Board, which has said the company’s employee arbitration agreements violate federal labor law.
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Justice Stephen Breyer has said a case pending before the Supreme Court could cut out “the entire heart of the New Deal.” It could also enrich the Trump Organization.
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Workers at Tesla’s Fremont, California electric car factory have filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board, accusing Elon Musk’s company of illegal surveillance, coercion, intimidation and prevention of worker communications.
We’ve written on more than one occasion here about the travesty that is the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and its treatment of big-time college athletes. So obviously we take great pleasure in the ruling last week, made by a regional director of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), that said football players at Northwestern University are employees and ordered an election for those employees to decide if they want to be members of the College Athletes Players Association (CAPA).
The ruling itself is one the feds can be proud of, properly reducing the question of employee status to its core issues—do the players perform a service for money, subject to the control of the person paying them the money?
With football players, the answers are pretty clear. Their coaches require them to sign a contract, make them work 60-70 hours some weeks, control their lives down to the most minute detail and in exchange give them various forms of compensation,
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