Posts tagged NLRB
The Texas Case That Could Bring Down the NLRB
June 13, 2026 // That’s the reality of a May decision by a U.S. district court in Fort Worth in the case Aunt Bertha v. National Labor Relations Board. The court ruled that the NLRB – the main government agency overseeing union organizing and collective bargaining in the private sector – is unconstitutional on multiple counts. This case seems destined to head to the Supreme Court, and if it does, Congress may have to rewrite federal labor law to meet workers’ needs in the 21st century.
Wyoming Wells Fargo Bank Branch Employees Latest Group to Win Freedom from Unwanted CWA Union Bosses
June 11, 2026 // CWA officials initially attempted to disenfranchise the employees using the NLRB’s “blocking charge” policy, which allows unions to delay, or even block entirely, worker-demanded decertification votes with unproven allegations against an employer. However, when Foundation staff attorneys pushed back against the blocking charges, the CWA dropped them, likely because the NLRB would have otherwise dismissed them as meritless. At that point, with a decertification vote unavoidable, CWA union bosses simply “disclaimed” representation at the branch rather than face an overwhelming election defeat. Now the NLRB has accepted the disclaimer and formally revoked the union’s certification as the workers “exclusive representative.”
Editorial Board: Why the NLRB needs its vacancies filled
June 9, 2026 // There are several precedents from President Joe Biden’s NLRB in dire need of overruling. One decision allows the government to order a business to bargain with a union even if workers voted against it. Another makes speech by employers illegal if it is not “carefully phrased on the basis of objective fact,” in the opinion of the government.
Schnellecke Logistics workers vote 2-1 to unionize with UAW at VW Chattanooga plant
June 7, 2026 // Workers at Schnellecke Logistics voted by a 2-1 margin in a National Labor Relations Board election to form a union with the United Auto Workers, marking a major organizing win at the company that handles materials for Volkswagen’s Chattanooga assembly operation.
USC faculty groups vote to unionize and university vows to challenge it
June 7, 2026 // Not all eligible USC faculty have been supportive. The effort drew opposition from full-time non-tenure faculty at the Gould School of Law, who said in spring that they were “unanimously opposed to the effort to include us.” The group cited American Bar Assn. accreditation standards that it said already provided workers with protections “reasonably similar to tenure” and encouraged law faculty to remain out of university unions. Some professors in pharmacy, engineering and education schools also publicly opposed unionizing.
The Faster Labor Contracts Act would force workers into unions they never voted for
June 4, 2026 // The retail, leisure, and hospitality sectors, by contrast, are traditionally harder for unions to organize because the workers who would back a union are also less likely to stick around. That’s why the unions want contract deadlines to apply to all negotiations, not just cases in which companies may be deliberately delaying things. Unions might otherwise find themselves in a “herding cats” situation because workers are constantly coming and going.
GWU Hospital Nurses Ask National Labor Relations Board to Overturn Policy Blocking Vote to Remove Union
June 3, 2026 // Appeal: ‘Blocking Charge Rule’ violates text of federal law and was wrongly applied to block election requested by hundreds of nurses
OPINION NLRB’s Pro Labor Bent OK with Sexist, Racist, Abusive Behavior
June 2, 2026 // Imagine if my co-worker called me a "gutter b****," "crack-head a**," and a "crack hoe." How about a male colleague calling me a "whore" and exposing his privates to me? Or let’s say a co- worker on strike yelled to me and others, "Go back to Africa, you bunch of f****** losers," and "f****** n***** scabs"? Should any of this behavior be tolerated by our employer? All of these are real, recent occurrences against women and Blacks at the hands of their union organizing colleagues, as the Institute for the American Worker catalogued.
MLB owners propose first salary cap since 1994 strike
May 30, 2026 // Teams that would need to increase their payrolls based on current projections for this season are the A's, Rockies, Cardinals, Guardians, White Sox, Pirates, Twins, Brewers, Rays, Marlins, Nationals and Reds. Teams that would need to shed payroll to get under the cap are the Dodgers, Yankees, Mets, Blue Jays, Phillies, Red Sox, Braves and Padres. MLB remains the only major North American professional sports league without a cap-and-floor system. The last time baseball owners proposed a firm cap --1994 -- it prompted a 7½-month strike that forced the cancellation of the World Series for the first time in 90 years. MLB eventually withdrew the cap proposal after pressure by the National Labor Relations Board.
Unionized nursing homes in deep-blue state trail the pack as analysis reveals ratings gap
May 28, 2026 // California nursing homes with unionized staff received lower average federal quality ratings than facilities without confirmed union presence, according to a new report. "Union presence in a CMS-certified registered home appears to lower its CMS rating by almost 10 percent," a new report published by the Center for Union Facts (CUF), a right-of-center organization critical of organized labor, reviewed by Fox News Digital found. The Department of Health and Human Services, through its Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, scores nursing homes on a five-star scale based on how well they perform on health inspections, the number of staff present relative to patients, how much care patients are provided and the overall quality of care residents receive.