TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Barry Kolar on Jun 23, 2017

A U.S. Supreme Court action this week in a labor case involving Macy's department store workers may strengthen a United Auto Workers’ case with Volkswagen in Tennessee, the Chattanooga Times Free Press reports. The automaker is currently appealing a National Labor Relations Board decision that paved the way for a vote among about 160 skilled-trades workers at the plant. The company has refused to bargain with the UAW while it argues that union representation decisions should only be made by the entire hourly workforce. Macy's made much the same arguments in its unsuccessful 5th Circuit appeal and the Supreme Court declined to take the case.