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Ladies and gentlemen, the National Labor Relations Board is back in business. (Well, somebody tell that to the Board, where it's been business as usual lately. More on that in a moment.) Yesterday, the Senate voted mainly along party lines to...

CHICAGO -- National Labor Relations Board Region 13 Director Peter Sung Ohr issued a decision yesterday in the case ( 13-RC-121359 ) brought by Northwestern University football players seeking to unionize, concluding that all grant-in-aid scholarship...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - (Mealey's) The U.S. Supreme Court on June 24 agreed to decide whether President Obama's "recess" appointments of three members to the National Labor Relations Board in 2012 should be upheld ( National Labor Relations...

by Krista N. H ardwick & Clay D. Creps An employer's right to monitor and restrict what its employees say about the company on websites such as Facebook, Twitter and personal blogs may have drastically changed. The National Labor Relations...

The U.S. Senate’s Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP) has set a full committee hearing for November 20, 2014, on the nomination of Lauren McFerran to be a Member of the National Labor Relations Board. She was just nominated by...

On May 22, 2013, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions voted to approve the nominations of Mark Pearce, Richard Griffin, Sharon Block, Harry Johnson, and Phillip Miscimarra to be Members of the National Labor Relations Board...

On December 2, 2014, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee approved the nomination of Democrat Lauren McFerran to serve as a Member of the NLRB. Her nomination now goes to the Senate floor for consideration. It would appear...

by Bruce Bagley and Adam Santucci Introduction From the looks of it, 2013 was a very rough year for the National Labor Relations Board (Board). Last year , we reported that the Board would face some serious legal battles in 2013. Some of those battles...

by Todd L. Sarver Are you a franchisor? Do you have contractors? Do you use a staffing agency? Do you outsource functions (food service, cleaning, security, etc.)? Do you have affiliate corporate entities you established to operate separately? Do you...

In a decision that is a preview for employers of things to come from the "new" and approved Obama NLRB, the Board affirmed an administrative law judge who found a confidentiality rule to be overly broad. MCPc, Inc. [ an enhanced version of this...

Late last month, the new NLRB General Counsel, Richard Griffin, published a memo ( GC 14-01 ) outlining the matters that the Regions must submit to the NLRB’s Division of Advice for guidance on how to proceed. The memo is of key importance to employers...

On September 22, 2011, the U.S. House Education and the Workforce Committee, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), held a hearing entitled, "Culture of Union Favoritism: Recent Actions of the National Labor Relations Board." The hearing focused...

Introduction Wow, 2012 was quite the year for the National Labor Relations Board ("Board")! Last year, we discussed the Board's agenda, which at the time we described as aggressive, but with the benefit of hindsight, describing the...

On January 28, 2014, players on the Northwestern University football team filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board ("NLRB") seeking union representation. The petition is the first of its kind and, if successful, the Northwestern...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — (Mealey’s) U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. on July 2 denied an emergency application filed a day earlier seeking to halt National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) proceedings pending a decision on the dispute...