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Under its current arbitration deferral policy, the National Labor Relations Board, to encourage collectively bargained dispute resolution, would defer a final determination in certain unfair labor practice (“ULP”) charges when the grievance can be processed through the parties’ grievance or arbitration provisions under their collective bargaining agreement (“CBA”).  The Board’s Acting General Counsel has urged…

The National Labor Relations Board’s union-boosting has taken a new and troubling turn…repudiating the will of voters who would make unions show by secret ballot that they really represent employees.

The NLRB has threatened four states, whose voters passed initiatives last year barring employers from recognizing unions except following a secret ballot election, with lawsuits…

Adding to the troubles employers are beginning to face with the new National Labor Relations Board is a report that the agency’s General Counsel (GC) has some new ideas to ratchet up employers’ costs of litigation, and even settlement.  The GC, the Board’s chief prosecutor, professes fears that victims of alleged discrimination on account of…

Jackson Lewis has filed a “friend-of–the-court” brief on behalf of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, urging the National Labor Relations Board to adhere to its three-year-old decision in Dana Corporation, 351 NLRB 434 (2007) (originally known as Dana/Metaldyne).  That decision allows employees to test immediately through a decertification petition and Board-conducted election their…

In J&R Flooring, Inc., dba J. Picini Flooring, 356 NLRB No. 9 (Oct. 22, 2010), the “full” four-member National Labor Relations Board held, “[E]mployers and unions that are found to have violated the Act should be required to distribute remedial notices electronically, such as by e-mail and/or posting on an intranet or the internet, …

It was only a matter of time before Big Labor started to get from the Labor Board what it has been after all along. Failing to achieve compulsory unionism through enactment of the Employee Free Choice Act, unions appear to be relying on the NLRB appointees they supported to achieve the same goals administratively.…

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) announced on June 20, 2010, that Lafe Solomon was tapped to serve as the NLRB’s Acting General Counsel.  The General Counsel, as “gatekeeper” of cases at the NLRB, is responsible for the investigation and prosecution of unfair labor practice cases. 

Mr. Solomon began his career with the NLRB 38 …

“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” says the old adage.  So why is the National Labor Relations Board thinking of “tampering” with its time-tested booth-and-ballot box voting procedure for holding union representation elections?  No one is complaining about the current method.  Unions certainly should not; they have been winning a sizable and growing share …