On August 2, 2017, the U.S. Senate confirmed Marvin Kaplan as a new member of the National Labor Relations Board. Kaplan, a Republican attorney with a decade of federal government experience, fills an open seat on the 5-member NLRB. With Kaplan’s confirmation, one seat remains vacant. President Trump has nominated longtime management-side labor attorney William … Read more
Keeping in mind that this is a management law blog, I’m obviously coming at this from the perspective of employers, not unions. And the short answer to this question is that most companies don’t want their employees to organize a union in their workplace. Fundamentally, unions tend to increase costs and reduce management flexibility. Here’s how … Read more
On June 27, 2017, President Donald Trump nominated William Emanuel to serve as a member of the National Labor Relations Board. Emanuel has spent more than 50 years practicing labor law at some of the largest law firms in the country. The President nominated Marvin Kaplan to the other open NLRB seat a week earlier. … Read more