labor law

  • When Your Boss Doesn’t ‘Like’ You: Surviving in Social Media
    Mischa Gaus
    Jan 19 2012 - 1:37pm
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    Social media are presenting new challenges for unions as employers develop policies and discipline employees for their posts on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.

    But whether workers are talking to each other in the lunch room or online, labor law still provides protections for private-sector workers to engage in concerted activities with their co-workers.

  • ‘Union Stooges'? The NLRB Is No Panacea for Workers

    Three New Year appointments to the National Labor Relations Board assure that it will continue to operate. But while unions are celebrating the NLRB’s ability to keep the lights on, along with a handful of union-supportive decisions by the board, the hard fact is that even when the NLRB is operational, it doesn’t work for workers.

  • Anti-Union Law Squeezes Wisconsin Teachers
    Evan Rohar
    Dec 5 2011 - 11:00am

    Wisconsin teachers are feeling the pinch as the consequences of Governor Scott Walker’s anti-union bill set in. Unions are using the struggle to recertify and press a recall vote for Walker.

  • Rolling Sympathy Strikes Harass Food-Service Giant
    Jane Slaughter
    Nov 25 2011 - 10:38am

    Taking advantage of contracts that allow members to honor picket lines, Teamsters spread short, rolling sympathy strikes to nine states at the nation’s second-largest food service company.

  • Corporate America in a Tizzy over Labor Board’s Boeing Order
    Jane Slaughter
    May 25 2011 - 2:15pm

    When the Labor Board told Boeing it couldn’t retaliate against workers who exercise their right to strike, Republican lawmakers and the Chamber of Commerce reacted as if Stalin himself had taken over the federal government.

  • Union-Busting Bill Stopped by Union Action—in Mexico
    Dan La Botz
    Apr 25 2011 - 1:41pm

    Tens of thousands of protesters spent weeks in the streets fighting a right-wing attempt to dismantle union rights. No, this is not Wisconsin but Mexico, where independent unions and allies forced legislators to shelve a union-busting bill.

  • VIDEO: NLRB Slaps Boeing for Punishing Strikers

    The National Labor Relations Board told Boeing this week that it can’t retaliate against workers who exercise their right to strike, a fundamental right guaranteed by labor law for 80 years. The airplane manufacturer took work away from union shops in Washington state, shifting its production to right-to-work South Carolina, where executives had already crushed the Machinists union.

  • New York Wage Theft Law Raises the Bar

    In what advocates called “a stunning win” for workers across New York state, outgoing Governor David Paterson has signed a law that escalates penalties against thieving employers and protects workers who stand up against wage theft at their jobs.

  • Teamsters Win Provokes Management Terror Campaign in Ohio Foundry

    Ohio Teamsters are experiencing a classic case of what happens when a company is ready to break the law to keep a union out. Since 125 aluminum foundry workers voted for Akron Teamsters Local 24 in March 2008, management has been barefaced in its refusal to bargain and its discrimination against union supporters, while threatening to sell the plant if workers didn’t decertify the union.

  • Supremes Hand Republicans Map to Hobble the NLRB
    The U.S. Supreme Court in mid-June knocked down 600 decisions by the National Labor Relations Board on the grounds that only two NLRB members lacked the authority needed to issue binding decisions. While pulling the rug out from under 600 decisions may seem cataclysmic, the bigger risk is that Senate Republicans now have a roadmap to hamstring the agency they "love to hate."