IXL Learning, Inc.

13 Cited authorities

  1. Linn v. Plant Guard Workers

    383 U.S. 53 (1966)   Cited 732 times   16 Legal Analyses
    Holding as preempted all defamation actions in labor disputes except those published with actual malice
  2. Nat'l Labor Relations Bd. v. City Disposal Systems, Inc.

    465 U.S. 822 (1984)   Cited 206 times   9 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a "lone employee's invocation of a right grounded in his collective-bargaining agreement is . . . a concerted activity in a very real sense" because the employee is in effect reminding his employer of the power of the group that brought about the agreement and that could be reharnessed if the employer refuses to respect the employee's objection
  3. Eastex, Inc. v. Nat'l Labor Relations Bd.

    437 U.S. 556 (1978)   Cited 196 times   13 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a newsletter that "urg[ed] employees to write their legislators to oppose incorporation of the state 'right-to-work' statute into a revised state constitution," "criticiz[ed] a Presidential veto of an increase in the federal minimum wage and urg[ed] employees to register to vote" was protected concerted activity
  4. Romano v. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner Smith

    487 U.S. 1205 (1988)   Cited 105 times   6 Legal Analyses
    Upholding conclusion that employees classified as department managers did not meet executive exemption
  5. Labor Board v. Electrical Workers

    346 U.S. 464 (1953)   Cited 125 times   41 Legal Analyses
    Upholding discharge where employees publicly disparaged quality of employer's product, with no discernible relationship to pending labor dispute
  6. Prill v. N.L.R.B

    755 F.2d 941 (D.C. Cir. 1985)   Cited 80 times   3 Legal Analyses
    In Prill v. NLRB, 755 F.2d 941, 948 (D.C. Cir. 1985), the D.C. Circuit remanded a case to the agency because "a regulation [was] based on an incorrect view of applicable law."
  7. N.L.R.B. v. Mike Yurosek Son, Inc.

    53 F.3d 261 (9th Cir. 1995)   Cited 22 times
    Holding that four employees who protested reduction in hours and then later refused a contradictory order to work longer hours engaged in concerted activity
  8. Prill v. N.L.R.B

    835 F.2d 1481 (D.C. Cir. 1987)   Cited 27 times   8 Legal Analyses
    Recognizing that an employee takes concerted action “when he acts with the actual participation or on the authority of his co-workers”
  9. Sierra Pub. Co. v. N.L.R.B

    889 F.2d 210 (9th Cir. 1989)   Cited 23 times
    Discussing N.L.R.B. v. Local Union No. 1229 (Jefferson Standard ), 346 U.S. 464, 74 S.Ct. 172, 98 L.Ed. 195, and its progeny
  10. N.L.R.B. v. Oakes Mach. Corp.

    897 F.2d 84 (2d Cir. 1990)   Cited 22 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Listing reasonableness as one of four factors in determining whether the termination of supervisors affected terms and conditions of employees