Search Results: National Labor Relations Act

This time of year, and particularly this time in history, it is seemingly impossible to keep politics, with its heightened passion and partisanship, out of the workplace.

Even if an employer has knowledge of an employee's union activity, the discharge of that employee does not violate the National Labor Relations Act unless the e

Beyond the right to unionize and collectively bargain as a union, the Taft-Hartley Act gives employees the right to engage in other concerted activities for the

Note: On January 30, 2009, President Obama issued Executive Order 13496 entitled Notification of Employee Rights Under Federal Labor Laws.

The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) would amend the National Labor Relations Act, which is the primary law governing issues related to labor relations, unions and collective bargaining.

For a worker to be insulated from company discipline for engaging in activity that the employer has not authorized, the worker's activities must be both concert

Supervisors have no protected rights under the National Labor Relations Act. Congress explicitly excluded them from coverage when it amended the NLRA in 1947.

The National Labor Relations Board allows for an initial presumption that a union has the majority support of the bargaining unit for one year following its cer

Perhaps the most widely used organizational technique for unions is the direct one of approaching an employee and asking if he or she will support the union.

In one of its most highly-anticipated decisions, the National Labor Relations Board, in December 2007, ruled that employees have no statutory right to use an em