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The NLRB ruled 2 to 1 that two Starbucks workers who hand delivered their mail ballots, rather than mailing them, cannot have their votes counted, leaving a Seattle union election deadlocked and unionization defeated.
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The NLRB ordered Hale Construction to bargain with Bricklayers Local 3, rejecting the company's objections to a mail ballot election and constitutional challenges to the Board's structure.
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The NLRB ordered ESCNC, LLC to recognize and bargain with Teamsters Local 150 after finding the company's refusal unlawful, rejecting due process and constitutional defenses while sparing it from turning over employee Social Security numbers.
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The NLRB dismissed a long running case against a small Iowa contractor, ruling the union waited too long to sue after the owner said in 2016 he no longer had a contract, even though the underlying labor dispute was never resolved.
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The NLRB denied Starbucks' bid to unfreeze a union election petition, ruling a regional director acted properly in pausing it while investigating claims the company fired a lead organizer to derail the vote.
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The U.S. Department of Labor recovered $500,256 in back wages for six workers at a San Diego deli who were paid a flat $100 daily rate despite averaging 55 hour weeks, well below local minimum wage and without overtime pay.
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The NLRB granted Essentia Health's request for review, questioning whether its 1989 Health Care Rule governs unit composition when a bargaining unit mixes acute care hospitals with non acute clinics.
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The NLRB affirmed that Amazon unlawfully surveilled, interrogated, and retaliated against JFK8 and DYY6 workers during the 2021 Amazon Labor Union campaign, while dismissing a claim that one worker's firing was retaliatory.
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A federal labor board ruled that team leads at a defense contractor's Army training facility in California do not qualify as supervisors, rejecting the company's objection and setting up a union election for twelve employees.
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Federal regulators fined FleetPride Inc. more than $264,000 after a worker asphyxiated inside a tanker trailer, citing 16 serious violations tied to confined space and respiratory protection failures.
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An NLRB regional director dismissed a petition to decertify SEIU Local 73 at a Deerfield, Illinois senior living facility, ruling that the "successor bar" doctrine still protects the union even though bargaining had not yet begun eight months after a change in ownership.
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An NLRB judge ruled that a Michigan nursing home illegally fired a mother and daughter after they raised pay concerns together and mentioned contacting federal labor regulators, rejecting the employer's nepotism policy defense as pretext.