A recent court ruling puts in jeopardy a year’s worth of NLRB actions across the country.
As The Nation has reported, in a charge filed one week before November’s Black Friday strike, Walmart had accused the United Food & Commercial Workers union of organizing illegal pickets for the purpose of winning union recognition (the protests were spearheaded by the UFCW-backed group OUR Walmart).
When the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington ruled Friday to
overturn President Obama's recess appointments to the
National Labor Relations Board, it handed a huge gift to Wall
Street, big corporations and the politicians they control.
As Facebook and Twitter become as central to workplace conversation as the company cafeteria, federal regulators are ordering employers to scale back policies that limit what workers can say online.
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