High Court to Decide if Two-Member Labor Board Can Act
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether the National Labor Relations Board is authorized to render decisions while three of its five seats are vacant. Circuit courts are split on the issue, and nominations are stalled in Congress.
Court Enforces Neutrality Pact
The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirms a district court’s grant of a defendant-union’s motion to compel arbitration and denial of a plaintiff’s petition for declaratory judgment where the union neutrality agreement at issue was not void and the arbitration clause of the agreement remained in effect.
EU, Chinese Labor Laws Impacted
The global recession is having significant impact on labor laws in the European Union (EU) and in China.
VEBAs Could Have Drawbacks
Voluntary Employees' Beneficiary Associations (VEBAs), which might help some large unionized companies save money on retiree health benefits, might not work well for other organizations.
Rule Would Boost Airline Unions
Workers at U.S. airlines and railroads would have an easier time forming unions if the National Mediation Board changes a 75-year-old rule on union organizing.
Union Financial Form Won't Change
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has rescinded a rule issued January 2009 pertaining to revisions it proposed to Form LM-2, which is used by the largest labor organizations in the United States to file their annual financial reports.
Court Limits Use of Union Fees
A federal appeals court agrees with a professor who invoked the First Amendment to challenge union fees charged by a public sector union.
U.S. and ILO Are Forging Bonds
The United States is forming a better relationship with the UN's International Labour Organization (ILO).
UNITE HERE Returns to AFL-CIO
One of the unions that left the AFL-CIO in a bitter dispute that split the labor movement four years ago is coming back to the labor federation. The union of hotel, restaurant and clothing workers known as UNITE HERE is bringing its 265,000 members back after Richard Trumka became the new AFL-CIO president.
Card Check Changes on the Table
Debate on legislation that would make dramatic changes to the way unions organize has begun to shift tone on Capitol Hill as supporters of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) look for ways to get the measure moving again.