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Teamsters win election in labor case at center of recent NLRB ruling
2015-09-05 09:50:47| Waste Management - Topix.net
Workers at the Silicon Valley recycling plant that was central to a recent landmark National Labor Relations Board ruling have voted in support of being represented by the Teamsters union. The vote involved Browning-Ferris Industries, a Houston waste management company that used a subcontractor, Leadpoint Business Services, to staff its recycling center in Milpitas, Calif.
Companies are on the hook for contractors' labor policies, NLRB says
2015-08-28 03:41:04| Waste Management - Topix.net
The NLRB ruling could change the operations of high-profile companies such as Wal-Mart, which subcontracts out warehouse work. The NLRB ruling could change the operations of high-profile companies such as Wal-Mart, which subcontracts out warehouse work.
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NLRB case asks who's really the boss of subcontractors' workers
2015-08-22 07:05:43| Waste Management - Topix.net
The practice of shifting employment to subcontractors or calling workers independent contractors helped inspire passage of the National Labor Relations Act signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935. The practice of shifting employment to subcontractors or calling workers independent contractors helped inspire passage of the National Labor Relations Act signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935.
NLRB Revisits and Overturns Longstanding Precedent Regarding Disclosure of Witness Statements
2015-08-04 18:17:45| Beverages - Topix.net
As we reported in an earlier blog post , the National Labor Relations Board issued the American Baptist Homes of the West decision in December 2012, overturning more than 30 years of precedent shielding witness statements from disclosure. In June 2014, however, the Supreme Court handed down the Noel Canning decision , in which it found that President Obama's January 2012 Board appointments were invalid and thus the Board lacked the necessary quorum of three members to issue valid decisions from that date until August 2013 .
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"Unpredictable and Potentially Messy"?: NLRB Ruling Could ...
2015-07-15 17:18:33| Beverages - Topix.net
In its June 26 split decision in American Baptist Homes of the West d/b/a Piedmont Gardens and Service Employees International Union, United Healthcare Workers- West, 362 N.L.R.B. No. 139 , the National Labor Relations Board adopted a new standard for union access to employers' witness statements in discipline cases.
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