President Obama has proposed the American Jobs Act as a way to increase employment and head off a double dip recession. It has five key components, according to an administration briefing to the National Small Business Association this afternoon. They are 1. Tax Cuts for small business, including significant reductions in payroll taxes; 2. Rebuild
Union mob attacks grain depot to keep work away from another union
The Los Angeles Times reported today that a mob of hundreds of International Longshore and Warehouse Union members, alerted by a posting on the Union’s Facebook page, overpowered police and attacked a train carrying grain to a new storage facility in Longview, Washington. According to the article, the union members cut brake lines on the
Health of patients not “core” to mission of hospital according to NLRB
In 1987, the NLRB held that a newspaper did not have to bargain with a union over its ethics policy, on the grounds that ensuring public confidence in its news reporting was a “core function” of the paper. Peerless Publications, 283 NLRB 334 (1987). In 2006, Virginia Mason Hospital in Seattle unilaterally implemented an
Term of Chairman Liebman ends; Member Mark Gaston Pearce Named as new Chairman
Chairman Wilma Liebman’s term on the National Labor Relations Board ended last Saturday, August 27th. She was first named to the Board by President Bill Clinton in 1997, and was reappointed in both 2002 and 2006 by President George W. Bush. President Obama named her Chairman on January 21, 2009, his first full day in
What’s the Problem with Employment?
Small businesses are increasingly pessimistic about the economy’s immediate future
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Labor Department, Supreme Court Make Monday News
June 20, 2011 is a busy Monday
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Ohio Supreme Court Adds Another Public Policy Cause of Action
It may be good public policy to include an employer’s preemptive conduct within the statutory proscription, or there may be adverse consequences to such a policy that are not apparent on its face. This court has insufficient information available to it to make such a far-reaching policy choice.
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Update on Boeing–NLRB Feeling Heat?
Acting NLRB General Counsel Lafe Solomon took the highly unusual step on May 9, 2011, of issuing a formal press release asserting that the Boeing Complaint was nothing unusual, and requesting interested parties to let the NLRB’s processes run their course and not to attempt to try the case in the media. As noted in
Is the NLRB Going to Second-Guess Management Moves After Boeing?
This latest effort of the General Counsel to expand the influence of the Board on corporate decisions as to where to place new facilities inside the United States is likely to have a serious backlash. Employers should not change their current plans.
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What does the Supreme Court’s decision in Saint-Gobain mean for employer policies and planning?
Most of the commentary on the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Kasten v. Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics, 563 U.S. ___ (2011), available here, has focused on the fact that the Court apparently took a pro-employee, anti-business position by deciding that a relatively informal complaint about the location of a time clock could be considered a