The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) announced yesterday (3/19/20) that they will be suspending all representation elections, including mail-in ballots, until April 3, 2020. This action has been taken to protect the health and safety of its employees and anyone else involved in the elections process during the current COVID-19 pandemic, and because several regional…
The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has unveiled a $150m anti-Trump campaign in an effort to hinder President Trump’s reelection. The Union, which has nearly 2m members, is aiming the campaign at 6 million voters who don’t usually vote in the battleground states of Colorado, Florida, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin. The campaign,…
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued its final rule for Joint-Employer relations on February 26, 2020. The rule states that “a business must possess and exercise substantial direct and immediate control over one or more essential terms and conditions of employment of another employer’s employees.” It also further defines “substantial direct and immediate control”…
Immediately prior to the vote on the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka threatened lawmakers to vote yes on the PRO Act, or “Those who would oppose, delay or derail this legislation” would lose support from Big Labor, further stating “do not ask the labor movement . . . for…
After years of requests for better labor union oversight, the Labor Department’s union watchdog office has finally added a pair of aides with extensive experience advocating against organized labor. One of those new aides is none other than Rusty Brown, formerly of RWP Labor, who started as a union-avoidance consultant on January 6. Bloomberg Law…
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported this week that the percent of wage and salary workers who were members of unions declined in 2019 by 0.2% from 2018 to 10.3%. In comparison, unions once stood at 20.1% in 1983, the first year for which data was made available. Public-sector worker union rates (33.6%) eclipsed…
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has revised its regulations under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) that provide guidance on determining joint-employer status. In January 2020, The DOL released a Joint Employer Fact Sheet defining those changes. That fact sheet may be viewed and downloaded here.
Watch Russ Brown testify for better conditions for Airline Ground Workers! Hearing | Hearings | Committee Activity | The House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure If you would like to see the testimony in its entirety, please find it here: Hearing | Hearings | Committee Activity | The House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure If…
Today, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) announced a series of modifications to the Agency’s representation case procedures that will end the Obama-era Ambush Election Rule. Of the changes, NLRB Chairman John F. Ring stated, “These are common-sense changes to ensure expeditious elections that are fair and efficient. The new procedures will allow workers to…
Despite allegations of corruption against James Hoffa Jr., the Teamsters union elected president since 1998, Democratic presidential hopefuls Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Bernie Sanders, and Sen. Amy Klobuchar attended a Teamsters forum hosted by the labor leader on Saturday in the hope of earning his endorsement. To receive an invitation to the forum, candidates…
