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Trump Holdovers Are Dragging Down the Biden Agenda In his first 100 days, the president still hasn’t cleared his predecessor’s cronies out of the executive branch, where they’re free to sabotage his presidency. Toni L. Sandys/Getty Images IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig is just one of many Trump-era executive branch holdovers who could hinder President Biden’s agenda. During his campaign, Joe Biden repeatedly held out the promise of an FDR-size presidency—the better to counter the misrule of the Trump administration. It can be said that he has already made some admirable strides i...

COVID-19 Pandemic Allows Unions to Make Inroads with Health Care Workers For health care workers, the issues of staffing, wages and benefits are typically what unions have focused on in their organizing campaigns. Against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, these issues are heightened with the added urgency of worker safety. The realities created by the pandemic have and will likely continue to make their impact on health care workers – even prompting some who never may have considered union representation – to reconsider their position. For example, in September 2020, nurses at a ...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. On April 21, 2021, the National Labor Relations Board ("Board" or "NLRB") voted to keep in place its long standing rule limiting when workers can try to remove an existing union from the workplace or bring in another – the so-called "contract bar" doctrine. In June of last year, the Board invited public comment on the contract bar issue and received briefs from unions, employer advocates, lawmakers, and others on the subject.  This week, in a divided ruling, the NLRB concluded that "a su...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On April 21, 2021, the National Labor Relations Board (“Board” or “NLRB”) voted to keep in place its long standing rule limiting when workers can try to remove an existing union from the workplace or bring in another – the so-called “contract bar” doctrine. In June of last year, the Board invited public comment on the contract bar issue and received briefs from unions, employer advocates, lawmakers, and others on the subject.  This week, in a divided ruling, the NLRB concluded that “a sufficiently compelling case ha...

Posted: Apr 18, 2021 9:00 AM PT | Last Updated: April 18 The Hope Station House has stood for more than 100 years in Hope, B.C. — but it is in danger of having its heritage status revoked and the building could be demolished. (CPHSH's Save the 1916 Hope Station House/Facebook)