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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 bipartisan effort is separate from the unilateral approach that Democrats are expected to take with regar...
By Syndicated Content By Daniel Wiessner and David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) â 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 general counsel of New York City service worker union SEIU 32BJ. A White House spokesperson hailed the ...
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 first time in the NLRB’s history that women have occupied both the Chairman and General Counsel pos...
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 of Operating Engineers, Local Union No. 150 (Lippert Components, Inc.), 371 NLRB No. 8 (July 21, 2021...