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UAW Loses Organizing Campaign in Alabama

By Joseph H. Laverty / May 24, 2024

After the United Auto Workers (“UAW”) signed contracts with numerous auto workers in 2023, they announced their organizing intentions at nonunion automakers who have numerous facilities in the South. In May 2024, Mercedes employees at the company’s plants in Vance and Woodstock, Alabama, voted against UAW representation in an election trying to unionize both plants.…

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All Employers Should Read This

By Richard H. Wessels / October 25, 2023

The NLRB has re-written the rules for union organizing with many trip wires for employers. We have been alerting our clients about the extraordinarily pro-union NLRB decision in Cemex. This decision revamps completely the process for a union to be recognized. The old procedure called for the union to demand recognition and the employer could…

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NLRB Is Now Getting Serious With Its Anti-Business Agenda

By Richard H. Wessels / September 29, 2023

Here’s the story of the NLRB’s pursuit of the two owners of a Muskego, WI spa. In 2021, the NLRB found that Haven Salon + Spa violated the NLRA when it discharged an employee for raising concerns about the adequacy of the company’s COVID-19 safety protocols during the height of the pandemic. In raising those…

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Cemex Decision and the New Rules for Union Organizing

By Richard H. Wessels / September 21, 2023

In our September Client Alert, we wrote about the extraordinarily pro-union NLRB decision in Cemex. Here are links to NLRB press release and the decision itself. This decision revamps completely the process for a union to be recognized. The old procedure called for the union to demand recognition and the employer could tell the union…

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Cemex NLRB Decision Will Make Union Organizing Much Easier

By Richard H. Wessels / August 30, 2023

On August 25, 2023, the NLRB gave a major victory to unions and allows unions to represent employees without a formal vote. The decision is Cemex Construction Materials Pacific, LLC. The new procedure requires employers to recognize a union when the union demands recognition based on a claimed majority showing support. The union does not…

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Construction Industry Labor Law

By Richard H. Wessels / August 16, 2023

Our firm’s practice area is management-side labor and employment law. I focus my practice on the labor law side of things and that pretty much means dealing on behalf of employers with labor unions. Disputes in this area are in the exclusive jurisdiction of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Construction industry labor law is…

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UPS And The TEAMSTERS Reach A Tentative Agreement, Averting An August 1, 2023 Strike!!!!

By Wessels Sherman / July 24, 2023

Last week it was announced that UPS and the Teamsters had agreed to a tentative 5-year union contract that would avert a strike, most likely starting August 1, 2023.  The Teamsters represent approximately 340,000 UPS workers, which is the world’s largest package delivery firm.  If a strike was not averted, it was estimated that that…

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NLRB Details Harsher Remedies in Unfair Labor Practice Cases

By Richard H. Wessels / April 21, 2023

As our readers no doubt are aware, President Biden has promised that he will be the most union-friendly president in American history. He has appointed to the NLRB members and officials in keeping with this mission. The most recent change came out on April 20. The NLRB, in a decision (Noah’s Ark Processors), announced the…

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NLRB Launches “Know Your Rights” Card Series

By Richard H. Wessels / March 31, 2023

With its pro-employee majority and new General Counsel, the NLRB is continuing in their aggressive pursuit of employers. Recently they announced the development of a “Know your Rights” card series to educate workers on their rights under the National Labor Relations Act. The cards are designed to be printed, folded, and used by workers in…

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NLRB Returns to Micro Units in NLRB Election Cases

By Richard H. Wessels / March 1, 2023

The pro union Board has returned to the Specialty Healthcare appropriate unit standard. This pretty much means that Unions will get whatever they want as the voting unit for a union organizing election. Click here for the NLRB’s press release. Questions? Contact Richard Wessels at 630.377.1554 or by email

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