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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The NLRB Goes to “Pot” – “The Board, Like Congress, Has the Authority to Regulate the Marijuana Industry”
By Steven M. Swirsky on
Posted in NLRB Developments, Uncategorized
The NLRB’s General Counsel’s Office, in an Advice Memo dated October 25, 2013 (pdf) and released to the public on August 7, 2014, has taken the position that “an enterprise that grows, processes, and retails medical marijuana” is an employer subject to the National Labor Relations Act provided it meets the Board’s monetary jurisdictional standards …
Administration Rejects Labor’s ObamaCare Demands
By Epstein Becker Green on
by: Adam C. Abrahms, Kara M. Maciel, Adam C. Solander, and Steven M. Swirsky
On September 13, 2013, the Obama Administration rejected the union movement’s intense lobbying efforts to seek a waiver, so that their members would be able to receive tax subsidies in the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) Marketplaces for those…
Wal-Mart Sues UFCW In Attempt to Get Declaratory Ruling That Union Trespass Inside Retail Stores Is Not Protected
By Epstein Becker Green on
Wal-Mart Stores has filed an interesting and unusual lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court seeking injunctive relief to stop various activities conducted by the United Food and Commercial Workers Union and its subsidiary “OUR Wal-Mart” (Organization United for Respect at Wal-Mart) in connection with their long-running efforts to organize the giant…