The author considers how collective bargaining agreements negotiated on behalf of union employees, effectively limit statutory rights individual employees would have been able to enforce absent the collective agreement. In 14 Penn Plaza LLC v. Pyett, a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court upheld the...

This article concerns the Lakeland Health case and the employer's to re-classify licensed practical nurses (LPNs), from protected employees to statutory supervisors, so as to remove them from employee protections afforded by the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). Under NLRA law, the article...

This article describes the radical change of policy at the National Labor Relations Board, as manifest by three NLRB decisions. Workers’ rights were negatively impacted in these opinions, which approved of forced worker relocation, and deferral to arbitration of grievances and arbitrators’...

This article highlights the acute problems employees face in a consolidation, merger or buy-out: what are the successor-employer’s obligations under the National Labor Relation Act? Will the bargaining unit established under the old employer be recognized? The author describes under what...

This article considers the circumstances surrounding questioning of employees who are not represented by a union. Employers' investigatory interviews of unrepresented employees that can lead to disciplinary actions are in question to the extent that the employee requests the presence of a...