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Employers (hopefully) are aware that their employees are afforded certain rights under the National Labor Relations Act (the “NLRA” or “Act”), including the right to self-organization, to bargain collectively, and to engage in other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection.

Consider the following scenario: Your company uses a contractor staffing company to perform cleaning and maintenance tasks at one of its facilities.

Every year, April brings surprises for the unwary — typically in the form of an April fool’s joke.

Social media is a relatively new character in the classic tale of a unionizing workforce.

When unions seek to organize a group of employees, they often prefer to target a particular group or groups of employees in job classifications that they are confident will vote in favor of unionizing, as opposed to trying to persuade a much larger group.

Social media has likely had a role in fueling the malaise of unionizing employees who believe that the company they work for has a bad reputation.

Proponents of organized labor were presumably pleased when Joe Biden was elected to be the 46^th President of the United States, and with good reason.