• Members of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions voted 13-9 in favor of President Obama’s nomination of Richard Griffin to serve as the NLRB’s General Counsel. The Committee vote clears the path for full Senate consideration of Griffin’s nomination.
  • California, Connecticut, Florida, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Nevada, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia have adopted “labor peace” laws or ordinances that require private employers participating in public-projects or government-supported operations to make organizing or representation concessions to a union. Such concessions include providing union organizers access to company premises and committing a company to remain neutral during an organizing campaign. 
  • Pennsylvania lawmakers introduced the Freedom Employment Act, Senate Bill 1073, a right-to-work law that would permit workers to decide whether or not to join a labor union and would provide remedies to employees and penalties against employers when employees are not given that option. Each day of continued violation would constitute a separate offense. Currently, 24 states have enacted right-to-work laws, including Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Wyoming.