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Jennifer Abruzzo defined a bold new direction for the Board’s enforcement priorities in a memo. Mandatory Submissions to Advice GC Memorandum 21-04 lays out subject matters that NLRB Regions must submit to the Office of the General Counsel for Advice prior to any decision.

Friday, July 30, 2021 Infrastructure Bill: Game On!  After weeks of negotiating, there is finally bipartisan agreement in the U.S. Senate to move forward with a $550 billion bill to fund the repair and construction of physical infrastructure such as roads, bridges, rail lines, and water systems. There is no text for the bill yet, but legislative text is expected this weekend, and the Senate is expected to work on the bill next week. As the  Buzz has discussed recently, this bipar...

By Syndicated Content By Daniel Wiessner and David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate on Wednesday confirmed union lawyers Gwynne Wilcox and David Prouty to seats on the National Labor Relations Board, paving the way for a Democratic majority that is likely to reverse a series of employer-friendly Trump-era decisions. The Democrat-led Senate voted 52-47 to approve the nomination of Wilcox, a partner at Levy Ratner in New York, and 53-46 to confirm Prouty, the gen...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: After being nominated by President Biden on February 17, 2021, Jennifer Abruzzo was sworn in as General Counsel of the NLRB yesterday by Chairman Lauren McFerran. Abruzzo will serve a four-year term as General Counsel, spear-heading the agency’s investigation and prosecution of unfair labor practice cases and supervising the NLRB field offices in the processing of cases. As the NLRB noted in its official press release, this is the f...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: A split Board concluded this week that a union did not engage in unlawful secondary activity under the NLRA when it stationed a 12-foot-tall inflatable rat—known all too well by employers as “Scabby the Rat”—and two 8-foot banners on the worksite of a neutral employer for the purpose of forcing the neutral employer to cease doing business with the primary employer with whom the union had a labor dispute. International Union o...

Print this article One of Joe Biden’s first actions as president was to begin to fulfill his promise to be “the most pro-union president you’ve ever seen” and fire Peter Robb, the general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board. This was an unusual act for a new president, but Robb’s sacking was of great symbolic importance. Forty years ago next week, Peter Robb played a leading role in one of Ronald Reagan’s most important domestic victories: firing the striking air traffic ...

Scabby, the Chicago-born giant inflatable protest rat, spared by National Labor Relations Board Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune © Jose M. Osorio/Chicago Tribune Several inflatable rats outside of a building on the 100 block of West Washington Street in Chicagos Loop on Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019. Created in Chicago nearly 30 years ago, Scabby, the giant inflatable union protest rat that has become a fixture at picket lines, was protected by the National Labor Relations Board in...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: As we reported here and here, there are several challenges to the authority of the Acting General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, Peter Sung Ohr, given President Biden’s unprecedented move of terminating the sitting General Counsel, Peter Robb, in January 2021. One recent challenge to the Acting General Counsel’s authority was brought before the District Court of New Jersey in response to the Board’s petition for ...

Friday, July 16, 2021 Dems to Push PRO Act in Massive Legislative Package. Congressional Democrats this week announced that they would unilaterally advance a $3.5 trillion “human infrastructure” package (providing for paid family and medical leave, Medicare expansion, and universal prekindergarten education, among other things) along with a bipartisan “traditional infrastructure” package (addressing roads, bridges, passenger and freight rail, waterways, etc.) in the coming we...

ADVERTISEMENT Employment Authority: COVID Shots At Work & Noncompetes Law360 (July 9, 2021, 10:28 PM EDT) -- Law360 Employment Authority covers the biggest employment cases and trends. Catch up this week with a look at President Joe Bidens call for employers to offer COVID-19 vaccinations at worksites; his new executive order on noncompete agreements; and how the fight over the firing of former NLRB general counsel Peter Robb is either heating up or stalling, depending on whom you ask. Find the...