Employer Violations Dashboard

Unfair Labor Practices (“ULPs”) violate rights guaranteed by the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”). The NLRA is a federal law that grants employees the right to form or join unions and engage in protected concerted activities to address or improve working conditions. It also grants the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”), an independent federal agency, the authority to enforce these protections. When workers believe their employer has committed a ULP, the worker, the relevant union, or another representative may file a charge with their local NLRB regional office. The process may result in an Order from the NLRB to the employer directing the employer to end the illegal practice (“Board Order” or “BO”), a settlement between the employer and charging party (“Informal Settlement”), or the case being dismissed/withdrawn. The following charts include the employers with the largest number of alleged and adjudicated NLRA violations occurring in New York City worksites. They include both closed cases — where the cases ended in Board Orders or Informal Settlements — and open cases, where the outcome has yet to be determined.

There are many impediments that workers and their representatives face in filing ULPs and forming unions. Consistent with research showing the prevalence of interference in unionization efforts, such as a 2019 Economic Policy Institute study that found that ULPs occur in “41.5% of all union election campaigns,”[1] open cases are included in this dashboard, despite the outcomes not being fully concluded.