Recently in Labor Category

Today has been a rare bright spot for a deeply troubled newspaper industry that has seen a series of disasters befall it lately.

The Boston Globe announced that the paper, which is owned by the New York Times Co., reached a deal with its largest labor union, the Boston Newspaper Guild, that would allow the 137 year-old paper to continue publication.

Just how long it will be able to continue publication is another matter entirely, however.

Two United States Courts of Appeals issued two wildly different opinions concerning decisions made by the National Labor Review Board today.  The DC Circuit ruled that the roughly 300 decisions handed down by the NLRB in 2008 while the Board only had two active members were invalid because the Board did not have the statutorily required quorum.

The 7th Circuit, on the other hand, completely disagreed, and upheld a challenge to an NLRB decision over arguments similar to the one relied upon by the DC Circuit.