🗞️ NLRB Orders SeaWorld's Discovery Cove to Bargain With Its Divers

The National Labor Relations Board ordered Discovery Cove, the Orlando marine park owned by United Parks & Resorts, to recognize and bargain with a divers' union after finding the company's refusal unlawful.

🗞️ Texas Medical Spa Broke Federal Labor Law by Punishing Worker for Talking Pay, Judge Rules

An NLRB judge found Injexed Medbar LLC illegally warned and fired esthetician Savannah Smith for discussing wages with a coworker, ordering reinstatement and back pay after finding the owners' testimony repeatedly contradicted their own prior statements.

📃 July 23, 2026 Representation Filings

15 Representation Case Filings and 1 NRLB Representation Decertification Filing

⚖️ July 23, 2026 Unfair Labor Practice Filings

37 Charges Against Employers, 13 Charges Against Labor Organizations, and 1 Charge Involving Boycotts and Strikes

🗞️ Friendship, Not Retaliation, Sealed a Technician's Fate, NLRB Judge Rules

An NLRB judge dismissed a fired medical technician's retaliation complaint against his employer and college fraternity brother, finding a strained friendship and a refused work assignment, not hostility toward protected activity, drove the firing.

🗞️ Florida Roofing Firm Faces $349,754 in Fines Over Repeated Fall Hazards

Federal regulators cited Orchids Builders LLC, a Florida roofing firm, for willfully exposing workers to falls at two Rockledge job sites, proposing nearly $350,000 in penalties after its seventh inspection since 2023.

🗞️ Labor Board Clears Union Vote for Vancouver Electrolysis Clinic, Rejects Broader Voting Unit

A federal labor official ruled that electrologists at a single Vancouver, Washington clinic may hold a union election without folding in a sister facility 120 miles away, setting an August 4 vote after weeks of unrest at the company.

📃 July 22, 2026 Representation Filings

8 Representation Case Filings and 1 Representation Management Case Filing

⚖️ July 22, 2026 Unfair Labor Practice Filings

37 Charges Against Employers, 9 Charges Against Labor Organizations, and 2 Charges Involving Boycotts and Strikes

🗞️ Labor Board Upholds Single Clinic Union Vote at DaVita's Vallejo Dialysis Center

The National Labor Relations Board denied DaVita Vallejo's bid to overturn a union election, ruling that the dialysis clinic must bargain with SEIU as a standalone facility rather than as part of a larger multi clinic unit.

🗞️ A Tie Goes to the Company: NLRB Tosses Two Hand Delivered Ballots, Sinking Seattle Starbucks Union Bid

The NLRB ruled 2 to 1 that two Starbucks workers who hand delivered their mail ballots, rather than mailing them, cannot have their votes counted, leaving a Seattle union election deadlocked and unionization defeated.

🗞️ NLRB Orders California Contractor to Bargain, Rejecting Mail Ballot and Constitutional Challenges

The NLRB ordered Hale Construction to bargain with Bricklayers Local 3, rejecting the company's objections to a mail ballot election and constitutional challenges to the Board's structure.