Posts tagged Thomas Beck
Coalition to Protect American Workers and I4AW’s Michael Alcorn: Petition for Rulemaking — Blocking Charges in Representation Proceedings
June 17, 2026 // The requested rule is straightforward: unfair labor practice charges should not postpone elections, dismiss petitions, or indefinitely prevent employees from voting on whether they wish to be represented by a labor organization. The Board should require elections to proceed promptly; eliminate merit-determination dismissals and other regional workarounds based on unadjudicated charges; permit temporary ballot impoundment only by written Board order under a demanding standard; and require the Board to act on any regional impoundment request within 30 days. If the Board does not issue an impoundment order within that period, the case should return to the Region and the ballots should be opened and counted.
Social conservatives split over abortion and transgender medicine in union contracts bill
June 16, 2026 // Beck said he believes abortion and transgender medical coverage would be “an easy thing” for arbitrators to use as a bargaining chip to reach an agreement on the three-person panel. “It’s going to be easy for the arbitrator to say, ‘OK, employer, I’m not going to make you pay the high wages that the union is demanding,’” Beck said as a hypothetical. ‘“But what I am going to make you do is I’m going to make you give generous health benefits and give very generous access to abortion on demand and give very, very generous access to so-called gender-affirming care.”
Freelance Busting: ‘Absolute Stalemate’
February 20, 2026 // The nearly two-thirds of Americans who would prefer to be our own bosses need protection from this encroachment on our freedom to choose self-employment. So do the vast majority of us who are already independent contractors and wish to remain so. It’s beyond frustrating that the help we need may be a long time coming, especially at the federal level. Experts recently gathered to discuss the reality of the situation in Congress during an hourlong Federalist Society panel, where they minced no words about why the challenges in Washington, D.C., persist.
Webinar with The Federalist Society: Labor Law Reform on Capitol Hill: Opening Offer or Impasse?
February 17, 2026 // Last session saw no shortage of proposals in Congress for labor-law reform. In the Senate, lawmakers introduced proposals ranging from mandatory interest arbitration to bans on organizing undocumented workers. In the House, representatives proposed a range of union-democracy reforms, including a requirement for unions to poll their members before endorsing a candidate for president. And in between, scholars and practitioners offered their own ideas, including a proposal to transform the National Labor Relations Board into an article I court.