Declining to decide whether organized labor must abandon the neutrality agreement as an organizing tool, the U.S. Supreme Court has dismissed as “improvidently granted” a union petition for review in UNITE HERE Local 355 v. Mulhall et al., No. 12-99 (Dec. 10, 2013). The action came in a per curiam order only after the
Neutrality
UNION NEUTRALITY AGREEMENTS TO BE SCRUTINIZED IF CERTIORARI GRANTED IN FLORIDA CASE
By Howard M. Bloom & Robert L. Murphy on
Posted in LMDRA
The U.S. Supreme Court has been asked to decide whether a neutrality agreement between a Florida greyhound track and a union improperly delivered a “thing of value” in violation of the Labor Management Relations Act.
Traditionally, when a union has sought to organize the employees of an employer and the employer decided it wanted to…