Tag: National Labor Relations Board

Service Employees International Union (SEIU) members protest for higher wages in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday, Oct 1, 2013. Unionized Los Angeles County employees have walked off the job and taken to the streets to protest the collapse of contract negotiations. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

Examiner Editorial: Big Labor going under Supreme Court’s microscope

Editorial Writer · October 1, 2013 4:00 am

President Obama stands with AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka after he spoke about jobs and the economy at the AFL-CIO Executive Council on Aug. 4, 2010. The Supreme Court is poised to deliver two potential big blows to organized labor.ÃÂ One could undermine much of what President Obama has done for unions, and the other could prohibit one of labor's main organizing tactics.ÃÂ (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Supreme Court could deal a triple blow to Big Labor

Sean Higgins · October 1, 2013 4:00 am

Eight workers at a Chattanooga, Tenn., Volkswagen plant have alleged that United Auto Workers officials used "misrepresentations, coercion, threats, and promises" in an attempt to organize the plant. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Beltway Confidential

Fraud alleged in auto plant ‘card check’ union organizing bid

Sean Higgins · September 26, 2013 4:00 am

National Labor Relations Board officials filed a complaint against Boeing in 2011, seeking to force the firm to build its 787 Dreamliners in Washington rather than South Carolina. (AP File)

Day 6: Obama claimed unlimited recess appointment power in NLRB crisis

Conn Carroll · September 23, 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)

Conservative activists, GOP learned little in filibuster showdown

Sean Higgins · September 22, 2013 4:00 am

OUR Walmart is ostensibly a bunch of dissatisfied employees of the nonunion retail giant rallying for their rights.ÃÂ In fact, the United Food and Commercial Workers backs it and provides most of its staffers.ÃÂ (AP Photo/April L. Brown, File)

Are ‘worker centers’ the future of labor organizing?

Sean Higgins · September 18, 2013 4:00 am

Red Alert Politics

Satirical PSA slams Obama for pushing intervention in Syria despite public opposition

Melissa Quinn · September 11, 2013 4:11 am

Beltway Confidential

Judge slaps down NLRB ‘poster rule’

Sean Higgins · September 5, 2013 4:00 am

Beltway Confidential

Advocate of union stealth tactics to lead DOL’s union anti-corruption office

Sean Higgins · September 5, 2013 4:00 am

Federal Judge Benjamin Settle ruled on Aug. 13, that National Labor Relations Board general counsel Lafe Solomon was unconstitutionally appointed to his position. (AP/Bruce Smith)

Beltway Confidential

NLRB suffers latest recess appointment-related setback

Sean Higgins · August 21, 2013 4:00 am

Beltway Confidential

Obama names Richard Griffin as NLRB’s top lawyer

Sean Higgins · August 3, 2013 4:00 am

Beltway Confidential

NLRB wants ‘poster rule’ revived

Sean Higgins · July 31, 2013 4:00 am