Free Enterprise Fund v. Public Company

Holding "that the dual for-cause limitations on the removal of [Public Company Accounting Oversight] Board members contravene the Constitution's separation of powers"

Detroit Edison Co. v. Nat'l Labor Relations Bd.

Holding that a union's request for employee aptitude tests was relevant to its claim, but employer's interest in preserving confidentiality was also legitimate, and disclosing the information only upon the employee's written consent was a reasonable accommodation

Eastex, Inc. v. Nat'l Labor Relations Bd.

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

Nat'l Labor Relations Bd. v. Acme Industrial Co.

Approving "discovery-type standard"

Labor Board v. Truitt Mfg. Co.

Holding that the duty to produce information relevant to a bargaining issue is derivative from the broader statutory duty to bargain in good-faith

United States Testing Co. v. N.L.R.B

Rejecting employer's contention that it had insufficient notice regarding the potential relevance of a union request for individual insurance claims information because "context is everything," and the employer "put on the table" the concern of growing health care costs

Consolidated Diesel Co. v. N.L.R.B

Recognizing that "[t]here would be nothing left of [the Act's] rights if every time employees exercised them in a way that was somehow offensive to someone," they were subject to the threat of discipline

Finch v. N.L.R.B

Cofone v. Westerly Hosp

In Cofone v. Westerly Hospital, 504 A.2d 998, 1000 (R.I. 1986), we held that "the statute [§ 23-17-25] explicitly dictates that only the records and the proceedings which originate with[in] the peer-review board are immune from discovery and inadmissible."

Community Hosp. of Roanoke Val. v. N.L.R.B

Holding protected a television interview in which a nurse complained of hospital staff shortages, and suggested that they were related to low pay

Section 158 - Unfair labor practices

Granting employees a wage increase without bargaining with Local 355

Section 1395 - Prohibition against any Federal interference

Addressing Medicare's reimbursement for diagnostic laboratory services for hospital outpatients

Section 5-37-1 - Definitions

Defining physician as "person with a license to practice allopathic or osteopathic medicine in this state"