Tag: National Labor Relations Board

Big Labor's campaign against Walmart got a major new ally Monday: the federal government. The National Labor Relations Board announced it is pursuing charges that the nonunion retail giant retaliated against some of it workers for engaging in union activities.ÃÂ (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

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How Big Labor enlisted the NLRB against Walmart

Sean Higgins · November 19, 2013 5:00 am

House Government and Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., sent letters to 15 insurers, including Aetna, BlueCross BlueShield and Cigna, demanding receipt by Dec. 13 of "all communications" between company employees and the Executive Office of the President, dating back to March 2010. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

FMCS under congressional fire after Examiner report on widespread waste and fraud

Luke Rosiak · November 14, 2013 5:00 am

Workers inspect the doors of a new Passat inside the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga Tenn., Wednesday. May 24,2011. (AP Photo/Billy Weeks)

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Volkswagen collaborating with UAW to force union on Chattanooga plant

Sean Higgins · November 11, 2013 5:00 am

Less than two weeks after the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that two of his recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board were unconstitutional and their decisions therefore void, President Obama renominated one of those appointees, Sharon Block, back to the board. (AP/Jon Elswick)

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Big Labor applauds Richard Griffin’s confirmation to Labor Relations Board

Sean Higgins · October 30, 2013 4:00 am

Less than two weeks after the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that two of his recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board were unconstitutional and their decisions therefore void, President Obama renominated one of those appointees, Sharon Block, back to the board. (AP/Jon Elswick)

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NLRB nominee accused in union corruption case

Sean Higgins · October 26, 2013 4:00 am

Richard Griffin, a former top lawyer with the International Union of Operating Engineers, was recess appointed to theÃÂ National Labor Relations BoardÃÂ by President Obama in January 2012. Obama did so despite the fact that Senate was not in recess at the time.

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Senate set to vote on controversial NLRB nominee Richard Griffin

Sean Higgins · October 20, 2013 4:00 am

Workers at a Chattanooga, Tenn., Volkswagen plant say that management repeatedly told them they would have to join a union if they wanted to see plant production expanded. (AP File)

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Tennessee autoworkers allege union-management coercion

Sean Higgins · October 17, 2013 4:00 am

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, on Thursday introduced a bill that would allow states to define marriage however they see fit, even as gay rights proponents push legal challenges to traditional marriage laws in the wake of the Supreme Court's invalidation of the Defense of Marriage Act.ÃÂ (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

What Republican rebels will do next in shutdown fight

Byron York · October 7, 2013 4:00 am

Supreme Court justices are expected to hear about 70 cases this term, which will run through June. (AP File)

Campaign finance, union cases highlight new Supreme Court term

Sean Lengell · October 7, 2013 4:00 am

A UPS employee has sued the Grand Rapids-based Teamsters Local 406. (AP File)

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Big Labor blocking workers from using new right-to-work laws

Sean Higgins · October 6, 2013 4:00 am

Less than two weeks after the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that two of his recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board were unconstitutional and their decisions therefore void, President Obama renominated one of those appointees, Sharon Block, back to the board. (AP/Jon Elswick)

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NLRB employees 99.3 percent nonessential

Sean Higgins · October 3, 2013 4:00 am

Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service employees' use of purchase cards amounted to rampant violation of federal procurement law, specialists say, and when an employee wrote to the General Services Administration to ask for a compliance review, the agency director and another top official forced her to send a âretraction,â according to documents reviewed by the Washington Examiner. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Part Three: FMCS executives forced whistleblower to retract fraud complaint

Luke Rosiak · October 3, 2013 4:00 am