It seems with each passing month the National Labor Relations Board or its Acting General Counsel opens yet another new front on its assault on non-union employers. A trend has emerged which puts labor law in conflict with standard employment practices. From hire, to control of the workplace and employer property, to the manner post-termination
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Life, Liberty and the Use of Your Employers’ Property – NLRB Continues to Expand Access for Union Organizing
By Adam C. Abrahms & Steven M. Swirsky on
Over the past year the NLRB has issued a series of decisions which, taken together, mark a dramatic shift in the property rights of employers and expand the right of employees seeking to use their employer’s property to organize.
Two decades ago, in Lechmere, Inc. v. NLRB, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that employers…