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NLRB Notice Rule Struck Down

Kollman & Saucier
Kollman & Saucier
05/09/2013
Agency Activity, Labor Law, Union Activity
On May, 7, 2013,  the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit held  that the National Labor Relations Board lacked the authority to issue a  2011 rule which would have required all employers covered by the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”) to  post a workplace notice to employees.  The decision, National Association of Manufacturers v. NLRB, drove yet another stake in the heart of the Obama NLRB’s activist agenda. As...
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Unions, Gangs and Prison Scandals

Kollman & Saucier
Kollman & Saucier
05/07/2013
Labor Law, Legislative Developments, Public Sector Employment Law, Union Activity
Over the past two weeks, we have heard a lot about the scandal at the Baltimore City Detention Center, where guards allegedly conspired with members of a notorious prison gang to traffic drugs, cell phones, and sexual favors. In case you missed this, the leader of the gang (the  Black Guerilla Family) fathered five children with four female prison guards and was heard telling an acquaintance in a wiretapped call “This is my jail …. I make every...
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International USW Ousts Local 9477’s Officials and Seizes Assets

Kollman & Saucier
Kollman & Saucier
02/19/2013
Labor Law, Union Activity
In a decidedly un-brotherly move, the President of the United Steelworkers International has placed Local 9477, the local union hall representing the steelworkers in Sparrows Point and the surrounding businesses, under an “administratorship,” Baltimore Brew reported yesterday.  According to the report, Local 9477’s officers have resigned or been suspended and last Thursday, Joe Rosel, Jr., president of Local 9477 was escorted from the premises...
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