A group of employees who left the premises after being given the choice of going back to work or leaving during a brief work stoppage were properly discharged, a divided National Labor Relations Board panel rules. The decision overturns an administrative law judge opinion that the discharge was an unfair labor practice. Read more

Election Result

• Union win - Employees at Mauna Lani Resort (Operation), Inc. dba Mauna Lani Spa voted 15 for ILWU to 8 for “no union.”

Petition Withdrawn

• By UFCW to represent 6 employees at Malama Market.

Election Result

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Representation petitions filed with the National Labor Relations Board fell almost 26 percent in fiscal year 2006 compared to 2005, NLRB General Counsel Ronald Meisburg reports. Petitions for deauthorization, unit amendment or clarification increased by 11.7 percent. Read more

Election Results:

• Employees at LVI Environmental Services, Inc. voted 1 for Laborers to 31 for "No-Union".
• Employees at Swissport Corporation voted 11 for Teamsters to 22 for "No-Union".

Elections Scheduled:

• For 27 full and regular part-time and casual processing plant employees at Hamakua Macadamia Nut Co., Inc (ILWU) on January 12, 2007.

Representation Petition Filed:

• By ILWU to represent 54 full-time, regular part-time and casual front end cashiers and courtesy clerks, employees in the meat department, grocery department, p

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Elections Scheduled:

• For 78 full and part-time laborers performing demolition, renovation, abatement and remediation work at LVI Environmental Services, Inc. (Laborers) on December 14, 2006

• For 12 aircraft mechanics working on Northwest Airlines contract of Swissport Corporation (Teamsters) on December 21, 2006

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In a 3-2 decision, the National Labor Relations Board overturns its prior decision that the union did not engage in objectionable conduct when its agents photographed employees during distribution of union campaign literature.

Overturning a National Labor Relations Board decision reinstating the terminated employee, the court said that the effect of stating that there were “gaping holes” in the business and that there were “voids” in the company’s critical knowledge base were damaging enough to warrant immediate termination; the employee’s later criticism of company management via an internet message additionally Read more

The National Labor Relations Board has an online database of all contested cases that were decided by a two-member Board, which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June had no authority to issue decisions. Read more

The National Labor Relations Board says it will reconsider 96 cases following the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in New Process Steel v. NLRB that a two-member Board was not authorized to decide cases during a 27-month period. Read more

A two-member National Labor Relations Board which issued decisions for 27 months did not have authority to make such decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court rules in a 5-4 determination. Read more

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Associated Builders and Contractors, Inc. have strongly criticized the recess appointment of union attorney Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board. Read more