National Labor Relations Board Archives

National

With labor activity on the rise this year, 40 U.S. senators say the National Labor Relations Board needs more funding to keep up.

Under Jennifer Abruzzo, the “new sheriff in town,” Amazon, Starbucks and others have learned that powerful companies are not above the law.

It’s one of the most far-reaching settlements to date after Amazon was found guilty of trampling workers’ rights to unionize.

Amazon’s “flagrant disregard” for labor law was so egregious that a new election must be held at its distribution center in Bessemer.

The NLRB is about to get tough on unionbusting. Its general counsel announced a policy that could stop employers from crushing union drives.

Scabby is 12′ tall and has red eyes, fangs, and claws. It may be scary looking, but the beloved inflatable is not an outlaw, the NLRB says.

The Senate confirmation votes, mostly along party lines, will give the NLRB a worker-friendly majority once again.

Precision—a key Boeing supplier—has lost its marathon effort to avoid recognizing the choice of a group of welders to unionize.

Five Washington newspapers have unionized recently, the latest in a nationwide surge among print and online journalists under way since 2015.

Workers Rights

According to a March 29 report, the drop has been dramatic. Since 2010 the NLRB has lost 452 employees, or 26%.