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From OliverBell Micro-Units Now a Reality: 2nd and 5th Floor Shoe Departments Ruled a Voting Unit. All other employees excluded. It is official!! Micro-units do exist at least in Region 2 of the National Labor Relations Board. Citing Specialty Healthcare (an August 2011 precedent setting decision authorizing micro-units), Region 2 Director Karen Fernbach signed the Decision and Direction of Election (Case No. 02-RC-076954) in early May authorizing an election of the 2nd floor Women's Designer Shoe...
Taken at South Lakeland
Taken at Publix Corporate Office
NLRB again finds protected concerted activity in Facebook posts, orders fired employees reinstated In a recent decision by the National Labor Relations Board, a judge found that a retailer engaged in unfair labor practices when it discharged three employees who engaged in protected concerted activity through discussions on Facebook. The board ordered the company to reinstate the employees to their former jobs and to pay back wages. This case illustrates that all employers—unionized and nonunionized—should...