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It is well known that the National Labor Relations Act (the “NLRA”) protects the right of employees to engage in union activity. The scope of the NLRA’s protection, however, is far broader; the statute makes...

It is settled law under the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”) that an employer has the right to permanently replace “economic” strikers – employees who strike to support the union’s...

It is a fundamental rule of labor law that arbitration is a matter of contract and that a party may be required to submit a dispute to arbitration only if it has agreed to do so. Thus, when a collective bargaining agreement...

The National Labor Relations Board (the “NLRB”) recently ruled that an employer’s decision to subcontract work, even where the decision to subcontract is unrelated to labor costs, is a mandatory subject of...

A frequently arising issue under the National Labor Relations Act (the “NLRA”) is the extent to which non-employee union organizers may enter an employer’s private property in their efforts to organize...

Many collective bargaining agreements contain provisions which purport to require all covered employees to become “members” of the union. Notwithstanding the language of such provisions, federal law does not...