NLRB Region 10 Director John Doyle ordered a union election for a sub-group of employees at the Boeing Company, despite a December decision by the full National Labor Relations Board that narrowed the circumstances under which micro-units could be created. This case involves approximately 180 flight readiness technicians and inspectors seeking to organize as a…
Read More »They were thought to be a thing of the past once the NLRB overturned its own 2011 Specialty Hardware decision back in December, but now micro-unions seem to be back in play. A decision by an NLRB regional office allowed a subgroup of about 100 welders within an aircraft engine manufacturing company was allowed to…
Read More »The term of National Labor Relations Board Chairman Philip Miscimarra ended at midnight last Saturday in a blaze of glory as the new NLRB republican majority overturned several egregious Obama-era decisions, the last of which was the 2011 Specialty Healthcare ruling. Under Specialty Healthcare, workers under certain circumstances were allowed to form bargaining units representing…
Read More »The D.C. Court of Appeals upheld Friday the National Labor Relations Board’s Specialty Healthcare ruling, which made it easier for unions to form smaller collective bargaining units. The 2011 decision by the NLRB opened the union organizing flood gates in many ways and gave birth to the notion of micro-unions. The new standard established by…
Read More »It certainly didn’t take long for the true impact of the NLRB new “ambush election” rule to be felt across the country. In a supplemental brief filed by the Associated Builders and Contractors of Texas in their legal challenge to the “ambush” rule, they report that just since the rule became effective on April 14…
Read More »In a similar vein, Senate Republicans are also working to advance an initiative that will undo another regulation by the National Labor Relations Board that allows for unions to organize workers in smaller specific segments or departments rather than the entire workplace. The Board changed its historical position regarding unionizing requirements in a workplace by…
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