September 18

Contract Negotiations Made Eas(ier)! NLRB Enhances Worker Power During Bargaining

On August 26, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) overruled the Trump-era Raytheon Centric Network Centric Systems (2017), which had allowed employers to make unilateral changes under expired management’s rights clauses if the changes were purportedly justified by past practice. In two decisions, Wendt Corporation and Tecnocap, LLC, the NLRB reimposed employers’ duty to bargain.