Washington, D.C. – On February 11, CDW submitted its reply comments on the NLRB’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking regarding the joint-employer standard under the National Labor Relations Act. The reply comments reiterate CDW’s support for the Board’s proposed rule while countering unsupported claims made by opponents of the proposal. As Chair of CDW Kristen Swearingen explained, […]

Washington, D.C. – On January 28, nearly 90 organizations joined comments filed by the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace (CDW) in response to the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) Notice for Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) containing proposed changes to the joint-employer standard under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). The NLRB’s proposal adopts the long-accepted, practical requirement that the NLRB […]

Washington, DC – On October 22, the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace, along with eleven organizations representing employers from various industries across the country, submitted an amicus brief in UPS Ground Freight v NLRB. The case is the first challenge before a federal court of appeals to the Obama-era ambush elections rulemaking, which drastically shortened the […]

Washington, D.C. – On October 5, CDW and nine other employer organizations filed an amicus brief with the NLRB in Caesar’s Entertainment.  The Board requested briefs from stakeholders on whether the agency should revisit in the Caesar’s case its 2014 Obama-era decision in Purple Communications, which allowed workers to use their employers’ email systems for organizing purposes. CDW’s brief calls […]