NLRB
Amazon Delivery Drivers Walk Out in First-Ever Driver Strike
The drivers unionized with the Teamsters in late April, and are on strike to demand that Amazon come to the bargaining table.
Employee Non-Compete Agreements Are Illegal, NLRB Lawyer Says
The general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board says that non-compete provisions are “overbroad” and violate workers’ rights, specifically because of how they impact unionization.
Non-Disparagement Clauses Are Retroactively Voided, NLRB’s Top Cop Clarifies
The general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board issued a memo this week clarifying one of the biggest open questions after the NLRB rules broad non-disparagement clauses were illegal.
Lawyers Unsure Whether Workers Who Agreed Not To Can Now Disparage Former Bosses
What does this week's NLRB decision mean for the people who already signed such non-disparagement clauses but deeply want to disparage their terrible former bosses? The answer is unclear, almost chaotically so.
Companies Can’t Ask You to Shut up to Receive Severance, NLRB Rules
The board reverses two previous decisions that held that such severance agreements were lawful. Limits on free speech have become increasingly common aspect of many severance agreements.
Tesla Fired Dozens of Autopilot Workers the Day After a Union Drive Started
Fired employees at Elon Musk’s company say the it’s retaliation for organizing.
Starbucks Asked a COVID-Positive Employee to Work, Then Fired Him for Tweeting About It
Well over a hundred pro-union Starbucks employees have claimed the company fired them illegally in retaliation for union organizing.
Managers Are Already Trying to Bust eBay's First Union, Organizers Say
Workers at the company’s subsidiary TCGPlayer claim management is unlawfully surveilling union activity.
Amazon Labor Union Certified by U.S. Labor Officials
Amazon now has a legal obligation to bargain with the union, and can face serious penalties if it doesn't.
Amazon Is Refusing to Comply with a Federal Judge’s Order, Emails Show
The company seems resistant to tell its employees that it was ordered by a federal judge to stop firing people for unionizing, according to a new filing by the NLRB.
The Feds Are Getting Serious About Stopping Starbucks’ Alleged Union Busting
The National Labor Relations Board just asked for a “nationwide cease and desist order” barring Starbucks from firing employees for union activity.
NLRB’s Top Lawyer Wants to Crack Down on Electronic Surveillance in the Workplace
General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo warned that employers are using surveillance and automated management practices to block workers from exercising their basic rights.