EPISODE · Jun 15, 2026 · 33 MIN
Labor Lawyer Andrew Strom on How the Sixth Circuit Just Made It Harder for Workers to Fight Back
from America’s Work Force Union Podcast · host BMA Media Group
Workers at Trinity Health Grand Haven Hospital voted 89 to 66 to keep their union — after their employer had already illegally stripped it from them. The NLRB went to court seeking an emergency order to restore recognition while the case was litigated. Two Trump-appointed Sixth Circuit judges said no. The dissent came from a Reagan appointee. On this episode of America's Work Force Union Podcast, union attorney and Brooklyn Law School adjunct professor Andrew Strom breaks down what that ruling means, why the NLRA's four-year enforcement process makes preliminary injunctions the only real deterrent against illegal employer conduct and why the same court that gives employers automatic injunctions against workers who violate non-compete agreements refuses to apply the same logic when employers strip workers of their collective bargaining rights. Read the full analysis at onlabor.org.
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Union attorney and Brooklyn Law adjunct professor Andrew Strom breaks down a Sixth Circuit ruling that denied the NLRB a preliminary injunction in a case where a Michigan hospital illegally withdrew union recognition while workers voted 89 to 66 to keep it. He explains the NLRA’s four-year enforcement gap, the unequal standard applied to workers versus employers seeking injunctions and why he believes the class backgrounds of Trump-appointed federal judges are as much a factor in these rulings as explicit ideology.
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