In the waning days of the Obama Administration, the President’s appointed General Counsel to the NLRB took official action this week to permit questionable and disruptive strike activity, including one day strikes that are frequently used by aggressive unions against hospitals and other employers. Specifically, the GC’s Office issued an Operations-Management Memorandum acknowledging unions and
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BIG MAC ATTACK : NLRB General Counsel Argues Franchisees and McDonald’s Are Joint Employers
By Steven M. Swirsky on
NLRB General Counsel Richard Griffin announced on Tuesday July 29th that he has authorized issuance of Unfair Labor Practice Complaints based on 43 of 181 charges pending against McDonald’s, USA, LLC and various of its franchisees, in which the Board will allege that the company and its franchisees are joint-employers. If the General Counsel…
Obama’s Labor Agenda Continues to Advance – Griffin Confirmed as NLRB GC
By Adam C. Abrahms on
Posted in General Counsel, NLRB Developments
Earlier this week the Senate confirmed Richard Griffin as NLRB General Counsel. As we have noted previously in greater detail, Griffin’s appointment was controversial, having been unconstitutionally appointed as a Board Member and, to the ire of Republicans, seemingly thumbed his nose and multiple Courts of Appeals which ruled he and the other recess appointments…
Bad Faith Bargaining or Just Bad Bargaining: President Obama Names Unconstitutionally Appointed Griffin as NLRB GC
On August 1st President Obama made a bold statement by appointing Richard Griffin to serve as the NLRB’s General Counsel only three days after the former union lawyer vacated his unconstitutional recess appointment as a NLRB Board Member. The President statement by appointment made at least two things clear –
- The President wants an aggressive
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