Tag: NLRB

On Friday, the National Labor Relations Board handed unions and the American workforce a major victory in declaring McDonald’s corporation as a ‘joint employer’ with it’s 14,000 US franchises of the fast food workers at all of their stores. This effectively puts McDonald’s on the hook with the franchise when…

In an investigation and negotiation with Wal-Mart over alleged abusive labor practices that have been ongoing since November of 2013, the NLRB has finally brought charges against the retailer: The NLRB said the retailer illegally fired, disciplined or threatened more than 60 employees in 14 states for participating in legally…

This passed mostly unnoticed but on Frida, a Federal judge in South Caroline ruled against an NLRB mandate that employers must post notices telling workers about their rights to organize. A federal judge in South Carolina ruled on Friday that the National Labor Relations Board did not have the authority…