Unions commonly utilize clarification petitions to invoke accretion principles and try to bypass election procedures. However, the National Labor Relations Board’s recent decision in Recology Hay Road and Teamsters Local 315 illustrates how employers can avoid employee accretion into existing bargaining units by emphasizing the lack of interchange between bargaining unit employees and the non-bargaining unit employees at issue. Interchange occurs when employees alternate or transfer between positions.
Paying Your (Employees’) Dues
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On December 12, 2012, the NLRB reversed longstanding precedent in WKYC-TV, Inc., holding that dues checkoff provisions continue in force after the labor contract expires. (“Dues checkoff” is the act of deducting union dues from employees’ wages and remitting them to the union.) This decision overruled Bethlehem Steel, 136 N.L.R.B. 1500 (1962), which…
All Good Things Must Come to an End
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It’s a myth that Twinkies last forever. And just as these childhood staples will expire, it appears that the iconic brand behind them has also finished its run. Hostess filed for its second bankruptcy in January and has since been trying to come out from under a mountain of debt. These efforts came in…