Time

How to Build Trust Between Labor and Management

Last year saw no shortage of conflict between labor and management, with half a million American workers on strike at some point during the year, double the figure of 2022 and four times that of 2021.
Yahoo

Contributor: The National Labor Relations Act worked for 90 years. Suddenly, it's in the crosshairs

The success of the 2024 International Longshoremen's Assn. work stoppage is a sign of labor's vitality even as fundamental labor relations law is under attack. (Spencer Platt / Getty Images) Joe Biden ...
Government Executive

‘I want to work myself out of a job’: How two FLRA officials are responsible for resolving hundreds of labor-management disputes

Since its revival in 2021, an office within the Federal Labor Relations Authority has earned high marks both within the agency and across the federal government’s labor relations community for its ...
Government Executive

OPM’s labor-management forum guidance charts new ground for union policies

The Office of Personnel Management last week issued new guidance aimed at helping federal agencies reinstitute forums for management and federal employee unions to work collaboratively to solve ...
JD Supra

Further Exclusions from the Federal Labor-Management Relations Program (Trump EO Tracker)

Expands national security exclusions from federal labor-management relations by adding specific units in the Bureau of Reclamation, Department of Commerce, NASA, and the U.S. Agency for Global Media ...
Law

Management-Side Labor and Employment Firms Face NLRB Uncertainty Amid Continuing Demand on Workplace Issues

Labor practice leaders are seeing steady demand for counsel on ongoing labor issues. One practice leader said some clients generally are working around NLRB delays by going directly to the court ...
Harvard Business Review

How Labor-Management Partnerships Can Deliver Outsized Results

When most business leaders think about working with unions, they tend to focus exclusively on the collective bargaining agreement as the be-all and end-all of the relationship. Once the contract is ...
In These Times

90 Years After Its Passage, the National Labor Relations Act Is Under Siege

Ninety years ago this summer, Congress passed legislation hailed at the time and for many years after as “labor’s Magna Carta.” The Wagner Act — or, more formally, the National Labor Relations Act — ...
JD Supra

Can the Labor Board Finally Get to Work?

On June 16, 2025 President Trump announced two key nominations to the National Labor Relations Board: Scott Mayer and James Murphy. If confirmed, Mayer and Murphy will join Chairman Marvin Kaplan ...
AAUPOpinion

Training, Contingency, and Academics in Graduate Student Labor

While capital and labor are positioned to own, in the case of capital, and sell, in labor’s case, their ways of sustenance, ...
Los Angeles Times

The National Labor Relations Act worked for 90 years. Suddenly, it’s in the crosshairs

Joe Biden was the first president to join a union picket line and support labor’s side in a number of major disputes. His appointments to the National Labor Relations Board, the principal ...