Labor Law, Cases and Materials: 2014 Statutory Appendix and Case Supplement (University Casebook Series)

The Supplement contains the latest and most important developments under the Labor Act including the Noel Canning decision affecting recess appointments to the NLRB. In addition to late-breaking law the Supplement includes:

• the NLRB’s reinvigoration of rules to expedite representation elections

• the NLRB’s engagement with the managerial status of professional employees, in particular college and university faculty members

• the extension of the Act to scholarship athletes in private universities

• the individual waiver of the right to participate in group or class arbitrations―the D.H. Horton case and the role of the Norris-LaGuardia Act

• the UAW election at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee and the claim that inflammatory appeals by third parties interfered with a fair election

• the most recent developments on employer social media monitoring

• more on company rules governing employee conduct, for example, requiring behavior in a “positive and professional manner” or forbidding the display of an "inappropriate attitude"

• the NLRB’s proposal to change standards for the Board’s deferral to arbitration decisions

• the Supreme Court’s decision not to decide the Mulhall case and what it may mean for neutrality agreements including the challenge to the UAW-VW agreement in Chattanooga

• more on judicial faithfulness to the teachings of the Steelworkers’ Trilogy