In June 2021, without bargaining with the union, Rieth-Riley unilaterally raised unit employees’ wages.
The NLRB is entitled to enforcement of an order finding that Rieth-Riley Construction Company committed a number of unfair labor practices in 2021 and 2022 in the course of a long-running dispute with International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 324, the Sixth Circuit held. The Board properly found that the union did not waive its right to bargain over wage increases that the employer granted employees unilaterally in 2021 and 2022, that it unlawfully withdrew recognition from the union, and that it refused to bargain in good faith and unlawfully failed to provide the union with requested information. Rieth-Riley also failed properly to raise a challenge to Board’s choice to issue an affirmative bargaining order (Rieth-Riley Construction Co., Inc., Nos. 24-2105/25-1073 (6th Cir. Apr. 13, 2026)).
Construction company. Rieth-Riley, according to the court, is an Indiana-based construction company that employs around 130 to 170 operating engineers in Michigan. Since at least 1993, International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 324, has been the engineers’ designated union representative.
Multiemployer labor contract and withdrawal. Until 2018, the union was party to a multiemployer labor contract (the Road Agreement). It bargained with multiple companies, including Rieth-Riley, under a single contract.
On May 2, 2018, four weeks before the Road Agreement was set to...
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