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New NLRB Rules: Changing Post-Election Strategy

New Orleans One result of the proposed new NLRB election rules, if and when adopted, may require a shift in post-election strategy.

A union will know the results of the election and whether or not the challenged ballots on any unit questions affect the outcome or are aggravations waiting for hearings.  Either way this would mean [...]

New NLRB Rules: Best for Bigger Units

New Orleans Where the new rule making by the NLRB on elections offers potentially significant advantages would seem to be on larger units, if unions are willing to marshal the will and resources to go big.

The average representation petition for years has been relatively small, usually less than 50 workers.  This battle to rebuild [...]

NLRB New Rules: Quicker Elections, More Hearings, Longer Cert Delays

New Orleans The NLRB has announced a new rule-making procedure on representation elections.  Labor will try to paint lipstick on this pig, and business and their political friends will claim this is the end of the world as they know it, but in truth unions know this is not what they had wanted or [...]

Labor Board Grows a Set

Seattle As union membership falls to record lows and seems now headed to only 5% of private sector density and with recent assaults on public sector unionization may be pushed below 20% density there soon as well, it is worth remembering that collective bargaining remains a clearly articulated, foundational purpose of labor law ensconced [...]

NLRB Bulletin Boards: E for Effort, F for Results

New Orleans     The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has proposed a rule that would require companies to post on their bulletin boards a notice informing workers that they have the legal right to organize.  Conservatives, strong adherents of a philosophical belief in “total war” when it comes to class issues, are crying [...]

Post Mortem: Labor Back to the Board

NLRB Seal

New Orleans The Republicans are clear that unions have a target on their backs.  Labor law reform was never alive, especially not carrying the weight of “card check” recognition or mandatory first contract arbitration, and is now relegated to the dreamscape.  They promise worse to come, and they have the votes to [...]