The United States Senate, by a 55-44 vote, has confirmed President Obama’s appointment of Richard F. Griffin Jr. to serve as the National Labor Relations Board’s General Counsel. Griffin will replace Acting General Counsel Lafe Solomon who has served in this role since June 2010. The confirmation vote took place on October 29.
Griffin is…
Having argued for the need to address through federal court injunctions alleged employer misconduct that can “nip union organizing conduct in the bud” (see NLRB to Weigh Injunctions Routinely for Unlawful Discharges in Organizing Campaigns, Plans Acting GC) — in particular, firing employee organizers and activists — the General Counsel now wants to…
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…
