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T-Mobile Violated Labor Law With Company Union

Kollman & Saucier

11/28/2022

One way an employer may violate the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) is to create a “company union.” Under Section 8(a)(2) of the NLRA, it is an unfair labor practice for an employer “to dominate or interfere with the formation or administration of any labor organization or contribute financial or other support to it.” A labor organization is “any organization of any kind, or any agency or employee representation committee or plan,...

Kollman & Saucier

10/31/2022

Labor Law, NLRB

On October 31, 2022, the General Counsel to the National Labor Relations Board, Jennifer Abruzzo, issued a memorandum on the legality of an employer's use of electronic surveillance and algorithm-driven management. In Memorandum GC 23-02, the General Counsel announced her intention to seek a new legal framework to analyze whether the use of such tools in the workplace violates the National Labor Relations Act. Over the past decade, employers...

Kollman & Saucier

10/24/2022

Labor Law

Things are really heating up between Apple, Inc. (“Apple”) and the Communication Workers of America, AFL-CIO (“CWA”). The CWA has been campaigning at numerous Apple retail stores, attempting to gain a foothold in the sector. Earlier this year, an Apple store in Towson, Maryland voted to unionize, becoming Apple’s first US unionized location. That store’s employees are represented by the International Association of Machinists and...

Vincent Jackson

10/20/2022

Labor Law, Union Activity

In a fascinating intersection of labor relations and trademark law, Medieval Times has sued a newly-formed union for improperly adopting and using its MEDIEVAL TIMES® trademark. The case, filed in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey on October 13, 2022, seeks an injunction against the Union—Medieval Times Performers United—for unauthorized misappropriation of the MEDIEVAL TIMES mark. Medieval Times (the...

Kollman & Saucier

08/31/2022

Labor Law

On Monday, August 29, 2022, a five member panel of the National Labor Relations Board (the “Board”) reversed course on prior precedent and held that Tesla, Inc. (“Tesla”) violated Section 8(a)(1) of the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”) by maintaining a “team-wear” policy that, under the Board’s opinion, was unjustified under Supreme Court precedent. The opinion, Tesla, Inc., 370 NLRB No. 88 (2021) reversed course on a...

Darrell VanDeusen

06/06/2022

Labor Law, NLRB

I last blogged in April and wrote about the next generation of union organizing and the current efforts by the NLRB’s General Counsel to overturn long standing Board precedent. Increased efforts to organize Starbucks, Amazon and Apple cannot and should not be ignored. And lots of media attention is directed at the issue. Often, however, the view is that it’s conscience shocking to believe some employees might NOT want to be in a union. ...

Kollman & Saucier

05/27/2022

Labor Law, NLRB

On May 20, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued its decision in FDRLST Media, LLC, v. NLRB, 2022 U.S. App. LEXIS 13664 (3d Cir. May 20, 2022), holding that a non-related party could pursue an unfair labor practice (ULP) claim against the right-leaning online magazine The Federalist. The court also held, however, that no ULP was committed by the editor’s tweet about sending employees back to the “salt mine.” In...

Darrell VanDeusen

04/13/2022

Agency Activity, Labor Law, Union Activity

Earlier this week I wrote about some developments in labor law. I thought my second blog would be about something completely different. But wait, there’s more. On Wednesday, April 12, the NLRB’s General Counsel, Jennifer Abruzzo, through her deputy GC, filed a brief to the Board that claims a former NLRB associate general counsel – in 1969 – “misrepresented controlling board law” in an argument before the U.S. Supreme Court,...

Darrell VanDeusen

04/11/2022

Agency Activity, Labor Law, Union Activity

It has been a big last few weeks in labor law circles. First, Amazon got unionized in New York by a little-known independent union that didn’t even exist 18 months ago. President Biden expressed support for the unionizing of Amazon workers saying “Amazon, here we come” in a recent speech. The President, of course, has been and continues to be a strong supporter of unions. But, as reported in the New York Times, “organized labor has...

Kollman & Saucier

04/08/2022

Agency Activity, Labor Law, Union Activity

In an April 7, 2022 Memorandum to Regional Directors, NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo announced that she will be asking the NLRB to outlaw so-called "captive audience" meetings. Captive audience meetings refer to meetings between employers and employees during an employee's paid work time where the employee is required to listen to the employer (or its representative) explain the company's position on unions. Such meetings have long been...

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T-Mobile Violated Labor Law With Company Union

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Medieval Times Files Trademark Lawsuit Against Newly-Formed Union

NLRB Overturns Precedent and Holds Tesla’s Dress Code Policy Violated NLRA

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