Brooklyn
In New York, services:
| the boroughs of Brooklyn | Kings | Richmond |
| Queens | Nassau | Suffolk Counties |
| Staten Island in New York City | Queens |
Established in 1935, the National Labor Relations Board is an independent federal agency that protects employees, employers, and unions from unfair labor practices and protects the right of private sector employees to join together, with or without a union, to improve wages, benefits and working conditions. The NLRB conducts hundreds of workplace elections and investigates thousands of unfair labor practice charges each year. Region 29 serves areas in New York from its Regional Office in Brooklyn.
Kathy Drew King
Kathy Drew King was appointed Regional Director of the Brooklyn Office in 2016. She began her career as an attorney at the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board where she served from 1983 to 1991. Ms. King also worked as the Associate Executive Counsel at the U.S. Department of Labor, Benefits Review Board from 1991 to 1992 when she joined the NLRB. She rose from Senior Field Attorney to Supervisory Attorney in 2012. Ms. King later was promoted to her prior position of Regional Attorney in 2014.
BNA article spotlights panel discussion on Board decisions
Board Member Sharon Block and Regional Directors Karen Fernbach (Region 1-Manhattan) and James Paulsen (Region 29-Brooklyn) shared insights into recent Board decisions and the impact of the Noel Canning decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, in a panel discussion at a recent Cornell University labor and employment law program. The discussion was spotlighted in this article, which is reproduced with permission from the Daily Labor Report, 32 DLR A-18 (Feb. 15,2013). Copyright 2013 by the Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. (800-372-1033)
NLRB Office of General Counsel finds NY bus strike not unlawful
The NLRB Office of General Counsel has found that a strike by union bus operators against a group of New York school bus companies does not violate the National Labor Relations Act because the union has a primary labor dispute with the employers.
Settlement ends long-running dispute involving immigrant workers at New York food wholesaler
A kosher food product wholesaler in New York has agreed to settle a long-running NLRB case by paying $186,000 to former employees who lost their jobs in the midst of a union organizing campaign.
The settlement culminates a lengthy effort by the NLRB to enforce an order that Flaum Appetizing Corp. provide backpay to 17 former employees who were unlawfully discharged following a two-day strike. Flaum contended it did not have to pay because the employees were undocumented immigrants.
NLRB wins injunction to end Brooklyn lockout of 70 apartment workers who faced eviction and loss of health care
A federal judge yesterday issued a temporary injunction ordering the owners of the Flatbush Gardens apartment complex in Brooklyn to end a months-long lockout of more than 70 unionized porters and maintenance workers and resume bargaining “immediately” with the union while the case moves through the NLRB process.