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Posts from October 2012.

 By Edwin S. Hopson

On October 23, 2012, the National Labor Relations Board announced that, as part of its efforts to settle cases, it had contracted with the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) to provide FMCS mediators to the parties who participate in the Board’s alternative dispute resolution (ADR) program.

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By Edwin S. Hopson

On October 16, 2012, the National Labor Relations Board announced that in the fiscal year just ended on September 30, 2012, it had issued 341 decisions in contested cases.  Of that total, 277 were unfair labor practice cases and 64 were representation cases.  It also stated that the median age of pending cases was reduced from 219 days ...

By Edwin S. Hopson

On October 9, 2012, the NLRB’s Acting General Counsel, Lafe Solomon, announced a further restructuring of the NLRB’s field offices.  Earlier, he announced changes affecting the St. Louis and Winston-Salem offices which were consolidated into the Kansas City Region and Atlanta Regions respectively, along with some ...

By George J. Miller

On September 28, 2012, the National Labor Relations Board issued its first decision in one of the social media cases which have garnered so much attention in the last year and a half.  The case is Karl Knauz Motors, Inc., d/b/a Knauz BMW, 358 NLRB No. 164.  This was the case of a BMW salesman named Becker who was fired after ...

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