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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...
Trump's NLRB Makes it Harder to Join a Union
A new week, a new attack on labor from Trump’s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). In their continuing fight to make it harder to win a union election, the NLRB has voted to begin the repeal...
Teamsters Win $25 Million
The Regional Director for Region 9, on behalf of the General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), has signed a court-mediated settlement agreement among the NLRB, VIUSA, Inc. (...
Mincing Micro Unions
In their continuing effort to make it harder to organize, Senate Republican’s have introduced a bill to repeal the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decision to allow so called Micro Unions...
Victory: Employer must pay Union back
An administrative law judge for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has ruled against Wisconsin metal fabrication company Metalcraft’s union busting tactics and has ordered the company to...
Organizing Victories across the country
Lately a lot of news coming out of UCOMM Blog has been negative. We have been covering a National Right to Work push, a case challenging fair share fees for public employees, and the chaos...
Peerless Plywood scares 'em into submission
I get frustrated when trying to explain to a Building Trades union leader why the workers at the Walmart or Home Depot they just built don't organize. It's even more frustrating when the PBA...
Union Vote at Telemundo
The National Labor Relations Board recently announced their will be a union representation vote for actors employed by NBC owned Telemundo with 160,000 member strong Screen Actors Guild –...
Degree's of separation
This morning in Politco’s daily e newsletter “Morning Shift” which covers labor and employment issues a story highlighted the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) blocking McDonald...
Who is this old white guy?
On March 16th President Obama kicked off what is sure to be the biggest fight of his contentious Presidency by nominating Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court. As UCOMM Blog previously reported...