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The Northwestern football players will now cast their votes for or against forming a union. I wrote about this union movement previously here. Only scholarship players may vote. The school has already appealed the NLRB’s decision that the football players are employees and may form a union. The appeal will be
The National Labor Relations Board has decided that college athletes can form a union. To reach that determination, the NLRB had to first find that football players are "employees" of the school. Football players at Northwestern University had sought to form a union. I first wrote about their request here.
The Northwestern University quarterback
I frequently tell my clients or potential clients that if they want fairness at work, then they need to form a union. The case of Lt. Joseph Salvaggio of the San Antonio Police Department illustrates why. Lt. Salvaggio took the exam for promotion to captain in 2010. One of the instructions was that if a
Every so often, I talk with an employee who has been treated badly by his employer, but for whom there is no lawsuit available. S/he has no discrimination claim. The employee is simply treated unfairly, for which there is no remedy in Texas. So, I typically tell such clients they should form a union if
Federal employees who are members of a union have the right to have a union representative present during an interview with management when the employee believes he will be subject to discipline. That is an invaluable right when you are "under the gun" and feel like your job is in jeopardy. Most states that have
Arbitration is becoming a way of life for consumers, employees and many others. Arbitration formerly was only used in the labor union context. Now, arbitration clauses are everywhere, even at one Whataburger front door. See my prior post.
Arbitration makes more sense for the labor union context, because arbitrators have incentive to remain
A recent study of 1004 attempts to unionize a workplace finds that employers threatened to close the plant in 57% of those attempts and threatened to cut wages and benefits in 47% of the campaigns. In 63% of these campaigns, supervisors met with employees in one-on-one meetings to ask workers whether they supported the union.