The U.S. Department of Labor is offering virtual compliance seminars in August for employers and contractors including prevailing wage training and other issues facing employers. The sessions, presented by the department’s Wage and Hour Division, include video training on a variety of Davis-Bacon Act and Service Contract Act topics. Participants can view the content on…
Despite receiving barely 12% of the vote from eligible workers in Amazon’s high profile Bessemer, Alabama facility, the RWDSU is pulling out all the stops to try to overturn in the courts the free choice of the employees. The union has leveled multiple allegations against the company at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Essentially…
Recently, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of race discrimination claims by a bank employee. The bank terminated the employee for a social media post. Employers have wrestled for the better part of the 2000’s with the explosion of social media. The focus is often on how to prevent harm to their business…
When a union is certified by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) or voluntarily recognized by an employer creates an obligation under the law for both the union and the employer to bargain in good faith. The only thing a union wins when it wins an NLRB election is the right to sit with the…
The Department of Labor (DOL) issues regulations and oversees workplace safety through OSHA, wage laws through the Wage & Hour Division, regulates federal contractors subject to the Service Contract Act, regulates Labor Unions, and much much more. The nominee to lead this important agency, and his potential agenda, should be on the radar of every…
CARDS NEO in Grove, OK, formerly owned and operated by Bernice Sanitation, was acquired and became part of the CARDS family of companies in July 2020. The CARDS leadership team, including CEO, Dan Christensen, had their work cut out for them. Much of the equipment was in need of repair and the employees were underpaid,…
It is vital that every business closely monitors its union risk. A union organizing effort can derail the strongest of companies – hurting its image, productivity, and profitability. As long as unions exist, the threat to companies will always be present. Union risk must not be ignored. Successful company’s manage their risk. To do this,…
Employees at American Paper Bag (“APB”), a start-up bag manufacturer in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania have overwhelmingly rejected the Teamsters. In a recent National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) representation election, 83% of the company’s employees voted against the union. Above all, the margin of victory speaks to the company’s core values as well as its employees’ loyalty…
2020 has by all measures, in virtually all ways, been anything but a success. As Winston Churchill was working to form the United Nations after WWII, he famously said, “Never let a good crisis go to waste”. Unions have taken this advice to heart and have been exceptionally active in organizing during the Covid-19 pandemic.…
Businesses Shutdown – Union Organizers Did Not The third week in March the roaring American economy screeched to a halt. A novel coronavirus was sweeping around the glove despite early efforts to prevent its arrival in the U.S. This virus was completely unknown to scientists and it was wreaking havoc and death upon China and…