Category: Labor Relations Insight

A Union So Fake, Members Don’t Know They Are Paying Dues

Posted by Kimberly Ricci | Jan 8, 2025 | Bargaining/Negotiations, Education, Healthcare, Industry, Labor Relations Ink, Labor Relations Insight, Union Organizing, Unionized Company, Unions

The HHWA pulls dues from thousands of workers who never signed a union authorization card or voted in an election.

NLRB’s New Moves to Streamline Case Handling

Posted by Michael VanDervort | Jan 7, 2025 | General Counsel, Industry, Labor Relations Ink, Labor Relations Insight, Legal, News, NLRB

On January 6, 2025, NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo issued Memo GC 25-03, announcing updates intended to improve the agency’s case-handling processes.

New Year, Old Tricks: Big Labor’s Exaggerated And Illusory Strikes

Posted by Kimberly Ricci | Jan 6, 2025 | Bargaining/Negotiations, IBT, Industry, Labor Relations Ink, Labor Relations Insight, Logistics, News, SBWU, Service Industry, Starbucks, Strikes, Transportation, Union Organizing, Unionized Company, Unions

Welcome to 2025. Over the holidays, the SEIU-affiliated Starbucks Workers United (SBWU) and the Teamsters-affiliated Amazon Labor Union (ALU) claim to have waged “historic” five-day strikes, but was that really the case?