@LRToday Morning Round-Up: April 10, 2014
Northwestern Files Appeal Of Election Decision: Kat Greene of Law360 ($$) reports that yesterday, in a move that surprised no one, Northwestern University appealed last month’s decision from the...
View ArticleNavigating the Overlap Between President Obama’s “Equal Pay” Orders for...
On April 8, 2014, President Obama signed an Executive Order directing the Department of Labor (“DOL”) to propose new regulations and rules to prohibit Federal contractors from discriminating against...
View ArticleTN Gov To Ignore Board Subpoena
Mike Pare of the Times Free Press reports that Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam is not planning on attending the National Labor Relations Board’s hearing in Chattanooga, TN next week, despite being...
View ArticleSen. Corker To Snub Board Subpoena
On the heels of yesterday’s announcement from TN Governor Bill Haslam’s office that the governor will ignore a subpoena from the National Labor Relations Board, the office of U.S. Senator Bob Corker...
View ArticleUAW Bows Out, Withdraws VW Election Challenge
This morning, the United Auto Workers announced that they will be withdrawing their objections to this past February’s union election at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga, TN plant. Bob King, president of the...
View ArticleSen. Alexander Rails Against ‘Biased’ NLRB
Katie Rufener of WREG-TV reports that Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) has taken aim at both the United Auto Workers and the National Labor Relations Board in the wake of the UAW’s withdrawal of its...
View ArticleCollege Athletes Union Congressional Hearing Today
Later today, the House Education and Workforce Committee is set to hold a hearing regarding unionization in college sports. The hearing, of course, comes in the wake of the Northwestern University...
View ArticleSen. Alexander Seeks To Nix Union Access To Company Emails
Yesterday, Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) offered to propose amendments to an appropriations bill to preclude the National Labor Relations Board from requiring employers to allow labor unions to use...
View ArticleSenator Reintroduces Union Financial Transparency Rules
The Washington Times reports that earlier today, Senatore John Thune (R-SD) introduced a bill that would bring back financial transparency rules for labor unions. The three sets of rules promulgated...
View ArticleNew Executive Order Targets Federal Contractors
President Obama has issued yet another executive order that will impose additional labor compliance requirements on companies that choose to do business with the federal government. Entitled “Fair Pay...
View ArticleGOP Seeks To Reform NLRB
Yesterday, Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) introduced a bill to curb what the Senator believes to be the Board’s “partisan” activities. Co-sponsored by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY),...
View ArticleSenate HELP Committee Approves Block’s Board Nomination
Yesterday, the Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP) approved the nomination of Sharon Block to the National Labor Relations Board. Ms. Block is a former Board member whose...
View ArticleGOP Looks To Rein In NLRB
As we briefly mentioned last week, Senate Republicans will very likely seek to revamp federal labor law should they gain control of the Senate in November. While the numbers are tight, politicos...
View ArticleWith the Mid-Term Elections No Longer a Concern, Expect Flurry of Activity by...
National Labor Relations Board Member Nancy Schiffer’s term expires December 16, 2014. With the mid-term elections out of the way and given the uncertainty of how a Republican-controlled Congress next...
View ArticleMid-Terms Aftershock: President Obama Pulls Sharon Block’s Nomination,...
In a surprising move yesterday, President Obama withdrew the nomination of Sharon Block to the National Labor Relations Board because of Republican objections. Block previously served on the Board from...
View ArticleNew Board Nominee Goes Before HELP Committee
Yesterday, the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP) held a hearing concerning Lauren McFerran’s nomination to the National Labor Relations Board. The reader may recall that Ms....
View ArticleHELP Committee Advances McFerran’s Nomination
Yesterday, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee approved President Obama’s most recent nominee to the National Labor Relations Board. Nominee Lauren McFerran has served as...
View ArticleSenate Confirms McFerran’s Nomination
Yesterday, the United States Senate voted 54-40 to confirm President Obama’s nomination of Lauren McGarity McFerran to the National Labor Relations Board. McFerran’s nomination to the Board came...
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Labor Relations Today Releases ‘Labor Law 2014: A Year in Review’
MLA labor attorneys are pleased to announce the publication of Labor Law 2014: A Year in Review. This marks the fourth straight year that we have produced this annual review of developments in...
View ArticleDemocrats Support Quickie Election Rules
Yesterday, 16 Senate Democrats sent a letter to Mark Gaston Pearce, the Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board, urging him to “vigorously defend” the Board’s controversial quickie election...
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