President Joe Biden announced this week that he will run for reelection and has stated that he is the most pro-union president in history. Republicans in both the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives introduced the Save Local Business Act.
Supreme Court held, although the Act does not expressly preempt state law, it preempts claims based on conduct that is arguably or actually protected by or prohibited. That conduct is arguably protected when it is not plainly contrary to the Act.
The National Labor Relations Board NLRB has updated the test to be used by its Regional Offices for determining whether purported safety concerns related to COVID-19 justify conducting a union election by mail ballot rather than by an in-person manual election.
Pre-pandemic, mail-in ballots were exceedingly rare but they became the norm in the era of social distancing. In a decision issued Sept. 29 by the agency, however, the National Labor Relations Board signaled manual i.e., in-person elections might become the norm again.
Latest news from DC: the national freight railroads have reached tentative agreements with the labor unions representing their employees. labor unions and their allies in Congress are making a last-minute push to pass the Protecting the Right to Organize PRO Act of 2021