On December 4, the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace and 35 employer organizations sent a letter to Majority Leader Thune urging him to quickly schedule a floor vote for Scott Mayer, President Trump’s nominee to serve as a member of the National Labor Relations Board. The following can be attributed to CDW Chair Kristen Swearingen: “It is in […]

On November 10, Republicans from the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee announced a slate of labor reform bills aimed at improving the voice, choice, and rights of workers. The bills would amend labor laws, including the National Labor Relations Act and the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959, to revise labor organization […]

On November 6, the U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the National Labor Relations Board’s ruling in Home Depot, a case concerning political activity in the workplace to the detriment of professionalism and safety. The NLRB ruled that Home Depot violated the National Labor Relations Act by discharging an employee who refused to remove the letters “BLM” – […]

On October 7, the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace sent a letter to the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee highlighting the business community’s position on various existing legislative labor reforms, including the: Save Local Business Act (H.R. 4366) Start Applying Labor Transparency (SALT) Act (H.R. 2952) Worker Enfranchisement Act (H.R. 2572) Faster […]