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Boss Can Fire You For Posting on Facebook
As social media has exploded over the last decade, many companies have come up with policies that govern both what employees say on official company pages as well as their private page. The National...
Trump's NLRB Bans Bargaining for COVID-19 Safety
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has released a series of decisions regarding COVID-19. These decisions are the first guidance that the board has given since the pandemic started in March.
Your Boss Can Now Search Your Car
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has given employers a sweeping ability to increase surveillance on their employees. The case overturns years of labor law that protected the privacy of...
NLRB Restarts Hearings June 1
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) cases have been suspended since March due to the COVID-19 crisis. In those two months, cases have begun to pile up, no doubt from employers violating labor law...
NLRB Challenges Ban on Captive Audience Meetings
This article was written by the IBEW Media Center. The National Labor Relations Board is trying to kill a law unique to Oregon that prohibits employers from forcing workers to attend anti-union...
Trump’s NLRB: No Union Stickers at Work
At the end of December, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued several rulings to weaken workers' voices on the job. In Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., 368 NLRB No. 146, the board made a ruling...
CNN Pays Record Union-Busting Fine
In a record settlement, CNN has been ordered to pay $76 million to settle a long-running case of union-busting. The case began way back in 2003 when the cable network fired 300 camera operators. The...
Has the NLRB Lost its Way?
This post was written by the IBEW Media Department. "Everybody needs a law that is precise and certain." Sen. Robert F. Wagner was matter-of-fact in his call for Congress to pass the...
Trump Wants to Make Union Pickets Illegal
Trump's National Labor Relations Board is looking at ways to further curb unions ability to take action against their employer by putting more limits on picketing. Read more from Bloomberg Law...
NLRB Becomes Anti-worker
Management lawyer John Ring was appointed chairman of the National Labor Relations Board on Thursday, one day after the U.S. Senate narrowly confirmed him as an NLRB member. Ring’s...