presumptive representative of the putative collective bargaining unit. However, if that finding is based on a captive audience meeting, expect a strong legal challenge from Mercedes with the potential to reach the Supreme Court and resolve the legality of such meetings.
The dichotomy between the Volkswagen and Mercedes campaign results underscores how essential it is that employers be mindful of a robust union avoidance approach to prevent petitions and, when necessary, implement a tailored, robust, and lawful campaign between the filing of an election petition and voting day, providing employees with objective facts and data so that they have a full view of facts when they vote.
We will continue to provide updates as the UAW’s unfair labor practice charges progress through the NLRB’s processes.
DISCLAIMER: Because of the generality of this update, the information provided herein may not be applicable in all situations and should not be acted upon without specific legal advice based on particular situations.
For a rivalry that so often feels like it is playing out on a loop, it has been 22 years since the ‘Glasgow Two’ have met at Hampden Park in the showpiece final of the domestic season.
The dominance of the Old Firm – or Celtic’s dominance over Rangers, to be precise – is a stick that fans of other leagues can beat Scottish football with, but they are on weaker ground this time.
Manchester City and Manchester United met in last season’s FA Cup final and will meet again on Saturday at Wembley.
In the 22 years since the last Old Firm Scottish Cup final, there have been two Barcelona versus Real Madrid Copa del Rey finals, four Bayern Munich versus Borussia Dortmund German Cup finals and five Inter Milan versus Roma Coppa Italias.
On Saturday at Hampden it will be the same, but different. On Celtic’s side there is a want and on Rangers side, given the way they imploded in the league title race, there is a need.
