SPECIAL BULLETIN: NLRB DECISIONS CHANGE IMPORTANT LABOR LAW RULES

October 13, 2007 by Beeson Tayer & Bodine

The National Labor Relations Board’s conservative majority issued a series of decisions at the end of September substantially revising the Board’s rules that apply in many important areas of the law.

This Special Bulletin summarizes the most significant of those decisions. Brace yourself – with two minor exceptions (see p.5), the news is all bad.

Although these decisions do not affect public sector unions directly we are sharing this newsletter with all our clients because of the importance of the cases to organized labor generally and because of the risk that a State administrative agency could view some of these cases as persuasive authority.

Unions obtaining voluntary recognition based on cardcheck majority should pay close attention to the new rules announced in the Dana decision discussed below.

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