Today, National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo issued a memorandum to all Field offices announcing that she will ask the Board to find mandatory meetings in which employees are forced to listen to employer speech concerning the exercise of their statutory labor rights, including captive audience meetings, a violation of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA).

The number of union representation petitions filed with the National Labor Relations Board has increased by more than 50% in the first half of the fiscal year, the agency said Wednesday, as the board pushes for more funding from Congress.

Casey Moore, one of the workers key to organizing a Buffalo Starbucks, reported yesterday that Howard Schultz "told a room full of employees that labor unions are an ASSAULT on US companies."

Something amazing happened last week: The Amazon Labor Union in New York won an historic union election despite intense and relentless union-busting by Amazon. It was truly remarkable.

National Labor Relations Board prosecutors may escalate agency litigation against Starbucks by seeking a rare federal court injunction in a case alleging the company illegally cracked down on a union campaign in Phoenix, according to agency records obtained by Law360 on Monday.

Payday Report has recently discovered that Steve Irwin, who is locked in a tough three-way primary for Pittsburgh’s open Congressional seat, served as a partner at the anti-union “union-avoidance” law firm Leech Tishman. 

As reported earlier this month, MIT graduate students organizing with UE are facing an intense and well-coordinated union-busting campaign from their administration. A new email provided to LaborLab demonstrates an escalation in the administration's anti-union tactics.

Under the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA), anti-union consultants must file a Form LM-20 report with the Department of Labor 30 days of being hired by an anti-union employer for the purposes of meeting directly with organizing employees. The reason this reporting standard exists is because workers and the public have the right to know when union-busters are hired to directly "persuade" workers.

A video posted yesterday by Christian Small, President of the Amazon Labor Union, appears to show an Amazon HR manager collecting pro-union materials in a "break room" at the Staten Island warehouse and then throwing them away, which is a clear violation of Section 8 of the National Labor Relations Act.

Under the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA), anti-union consultants must file a Form LM-20 report with the Department of Labor 30 days of being hired by an anti-union employer for the purposes of meeting directly with organizing employees. The reason this reporting standard exists is because workers and the public have the right to know when union-busters are hired to directly "persuade" workers.