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Today’s News & Commentary — August 24, 2021

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Today’s News & Commentary — August 24, 2021

Workers at Colectivo Coffee have officially voted to unionize with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), the NLRB ruled yesterday. The bargaining unit—now the largest coffee shop union in the country—will encompass 16 stores across two states, Illinois and Wisconsin (Colectivo has stores in Chicago, Milwaukee, and Madison), as well as warehouse workers and […]

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Today’s News & Commentary—August 17, 2021

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Today’s News & Commentary—August 17, 2021

Home Depot violated the NLRA when it threatened and punished workers who engaged in activism against racial discrimination, a complaint filed by the NLRB Region 18 Regional Director, Jennifer Hadsall, alleges. As Bloomberg’s report on the complaint noted, Home Depot was one of many companies to put out a general statement about racial justice in […]

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Today’s News & Commentary—August 13, 2021

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Today’s News & Commentary—August 13, 2021

Yesterday afternoon, the NLRB’s new General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo, sworn-in just a few weeks ago, released a detailed memo alluding to plans to reform labor law through transforming Board precedent. The memo identifies types of cases that would be “mandatory submissions to advice” for reexamination by the Regional Advice Branch and the General Counsel’s office […]

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Today’s News & Commentary — August 3, 2021

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Today’s News & Commentary — August 3, 2021

A National Labor Relations Board hearing officer has recommended that a new union election be granted at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama. The recommendation was issued due to alleged voter intimidation tactics used by Amazon, particularly its installation of a U.S. Postal Service mailbox in front of the warehouse that could have given the […]

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Today’s News & Commentary — July 27, 2021

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Today’s News & Commentary — July 27, 2021

Analysis of the NLRB’s decision last week to save Scabby the Rat (Lippert Components Inc., 371 NLRB No. 8 (2021)), which Maxwell wrote about last week, continues to roll in. Meagan Day, in Jacobin, celebrated the decision, which she said turned away a “pathetic…attempt at extermination” by former NLRB General Counsel Peter Robb. Day noted […]

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Federal Judge Recognizes President’s Ability to Remove NLRB GC At Will

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Federal Judge Recognizes President’s Ability to Remove NLRB GC At Will

Hours into his administration, President Biden fired the National Labor Relation Board’s (NLRB) Trump-era general counsel (GC), Peter Robb.  Upon Robb’s termination, many Republicans clamored that Biden’s move was inappropriate, divisive, even illegal.  Many observers—including myself—were skeptical of that latter argument.  But over the past few months, corporations in pending litigation with the NLRB have […]

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Today’s News & Commentary – July 22, 2021

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Today’s News & Commentary – July 22, 2021

Yesterday, the U.S. Senate voted 51-50 to confirm Jennifer Abruzzo as General Counsel for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), with Vice President Kamala Harris casting the deciding vote.  Abruzzo’s confirmation, preceded Tuesday by an equally divided, party-line vote to end Senate debate on the nominee, marks an end to a bitterly partisan Senate debate […]

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Today’s News & Commentary — July 16, 2021

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Today’s News & Commentary — July 16, 2021

Today, U.S. Representative Jamaal Bowman from New York is introducing a “Green New Deal for Public Schools” which would fund 1.3 million jobs a year by hiring and training more teachers and reducing student-to-staff ratios. It would also direct more money to schools with high rates of poverty, increase social services for students (including psychologists […]

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