NLRB General Counsel is an Ally to College Football Players Unionizing
NLRB General Counsel Richard Griffin formally concluded earlier this week that scholarship football players at private universities and colleges are employees under the National Labor Relations Act, with the rights and protections of that Act. In a General Counsel...New York City Bike Couriers are Organizing
We are rooting for the bike couriers of New York City, who have recently formed the New York Messengers Alliance in an effort to harness their collective strength as they seek to improve their pay and benefits. There are some interesting parallels between these...Clearing Away the (Incense) Smoke Screen of a First Amendment Religion Issue
NLRB Exerts Jurisdiction over Secular Teachers in Church-Operated Schools In two recent cases involving faculty bargaining units at Catholic universities, the NLRB evolved the test for determining whether certain faculty of church-operated schools come within the...A Strange Intersection Between Professional Bicycle Racing and Labor Law
This fantastic piece by American professional cyclist Larry Warbasse raises some interesting issues that make it good fodder for our firm’s labor/employment law blog. To briefly recap the bike race situation: the La Vuelta a España’s is a revered 21-stage “grand tour”...Busting Police Unions Won’t Fix the Problem
On Labor Day Eve 2016, the New York Times published an editorial criticizing the role of police unions during the current era of police brutality. While NYT is right to call out recent egregious police behavior and there is something to be said for taking union...Make-Whole Remedy Redux: NLRB Decides King Soopers
“From the earliest days of the [National Labor Relations] Act, a make-whole remedy for employees injured by unlawful conduct has been a fundamental element of the Board’s remedial approach.”
Goya Foods of Florida, 356 NLRB 1461, 1462 (2011)