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NLRB Decision Will Significantly Help Organizing Temporary/Agency Employees
July 15, 2016 by
Sheila Sexton
It has become more and more common over the last 25 years: An employer contracts with an agency for temporary workers to work alongside its regular employees, performing the exact same work. Often the only difference between… Read More
New NLRB Rules Should Aid Organizing
October 13, 2011 by
Beeson Tayer & Bodine
The NLRB has proposed two sets of regulations that will take effect this fall and make organizing a bit easier. One of the proposed rules is quite simple — it requires all private sector employers… Read More
Region 32 Enjoins Employer’s Unfair Labor Practices During Teamsters Local 350 Organizing Campaign
Teamsters Local 350 petitioned to represent drivers for OS Transport/HCA Management, which subcontracts with Greenwaste Recovery, Inc. to haul waste. To thwart the Union campaign, OS Transport committed multiple egregious unfair labor practices including discharging… Read More
State Funds May Not be Used to Fight Union Organizing
October 13, 2006 by
Beeson Tayer & Bodine
After many years of litigation and multiple decisions striking down California’s neutrality law, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in September reversed its previous decision and upheld the law that bars employ- ers from using… Read More
Photographing Employees During Organizing May Invalidate Election
October 12, 2006 by
Beeson Tayer & Bodine
The NLRB has long held that it’s an unfair labor practice for an employer to photograph employees speaking with union organizers or accepting union flyers during an organizing drive. However, for several years, the Board… Read More
State Funds May Not be Used to Fight Union Organizing
After many years of litigation and multiple decisions striking down California’s neutrality law, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in September reversed its previous decision and upheld the law that bars employ- ers from using… Read More
Union Organizing In A Computerized Workplace
June 13, 2000 by
Beeson Tayer & Bodine
The Desktop Revolt Although the way people work is changing dramatically, the courts and the National Labor Relations Board are only beginning to grapple with some of the issues arising in today’s computerized workplaces. The… Read More
2024 Legislative Update, Part Four: Public Sector Developments
February 7, 2024 by
Beeson Tayer & Bodine
Public Sector Temporary Employees Added to Regular Employee Bargaining Units (AB 1484) By: Andrew Baker This bill, for all Meyers-Milias-Brown Act employers, automatically folds into any existing bargaining unit all temporary employees who perform… Read More
NLRB Restores Broad Test for Determining when Individual Action is “Concerted Activity”
September 18, 2023 by
Andrew Baker
In one of several decisions released August 31st overturning decisions issued by the Trump NLRB that deviated from established precedent, the Board in Miller Plastic Products returned to the long-established test, “based on the totality… Read More
NLRB OK’s Use of Drive Cams – But Not to Spy on Union Activists
May 2, 2023 by
Lorrie Bradley
In a recent case, the NLRB decided that an employer’s use of an in-cab surveillance camera to observe a driver while on his lunch break was an unfair labor practice. In Stern Produce Company, an… Read More
NLRB Decision Will Significantly Help Organizing Temporary/Agency Employees
July 15, 2016 by Sheila Sexton
It has become more and more common over the last 25 years: An employer contracts with an agency for temporary workers to work alongside its regular employees, performing the exact same work. Often the only difference between… Read More
New NLRB Rules Should Aid Organizing
October 13, 2011 by Beeson Tayer & Bodine
The NLRB has proposed two sets of regulations that will take effect this fall and make organizing a bit easier. One of the proposed rules is quite simple — it requires all private sector employers… Read More
Region 32 Enjoins Employer’s Unfair Labor Practices During Teamsters Local 350 Organizing Campaign
Teamsters Local 350 petitioned to represent drivers for OS Transport/HCA Management, which subcontracts with Greenwaste Recovery, Inc. to haul waste. To thwart the Union campaign, OS Transport committed multiple egregious unfair labor practices including discharging… Read More
State Funds May Not be Used to Fight Union Organizing
October 13, 2006 by Beeson Tayer & Bodine
After many years of litigation and multiple decisions striking down California’s neutrality law, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in September reversed its previous decision and upheld the law that bars employ- ers from using… Read More
Photographing Employees During Organizing May Invalidate Election
October 12, 2006 by Beeson Tayer & Bodine
The NLRB has long held that it’s an unfair labor practice for an employer to photograph employees speaking with union organizers or accepting union flyers during an organizing drive. However, for several years, the Board… Read More
State Funds May Not be Used to Fight Union Organizing
After many years of litigation and multiple decisions striking down California’s neutrality law, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in September reversed its previous decision and upheld the law that bars employ- ers from using… Read More
Union Organizing In A Computerized Workplace
June 13, 2000 by Beeson Tayer & Bodine
The Desktop Revolt Although the way people work is changing dramatically, the courts and the National Labor Relations Board are only beginning to grapple with some of the issues arising in today’s computerized workplaces. The… Read More
2024 Legislative Update, Part Four: Public Sector Developments
February 7, 2024 by Beeson Tayer & Bodine
Public Sector Temporary Employees Added to Regular Employee Bargaining Units (AB 1484) By: Andrew Baker This bill, for all Meyers-Milias-Brown Act employers, automatically folds into any existing bargaining unit all temporary employees who perform… Read More
NLRB Restores Broad Test for Determining when Individual Action is “Concerted Activity”
September 18, 2023 by Andrew Baker
In one of several decisions released August 31st overturning decisions issued by the Trump NLRB that deviated from established precedent, the Board in Miller Plastic Products returned to the long-established test, “based on the totality… Read More
NLRB OK’s Use of Drive Cams – But Not to Spy on Union Activists
May 2, 2023 by Lorrie Bradley
In a recent case, the NLRB decided that an employer’s use of an in-cab surveillance camera to observe a driver while on his lunch break was an unfair labor practice. In Stern Produce Company, an… Read More
