NLRB

  • Senate Gridlock Cripples NLRB
    Michael J. Goldberg
    Feb 22 2010 - 7:16am

    The National Labor Relations Board, crippled for years, will continue its dysfunction as political wrangling in the Senate and President Obama’s failure to make recess appointments leaves three of five board seats unfilled. That means Bush-era anti-union decisions will stay on the books for years.

  • Labor Board Puts NY Call Center Workers on Hold
    Call center workers in New York overcame a brutal yet predictable anti-union campaign, but are stuck as management stalls first-contract talks. The National Labor Relations Board, with only two of five seats filled as the Senate dithers, is painfully slow to respond to workers' pleas. They and their union, the Communications Workers, aren't waiting, and took the fight directly to management Friday.
  • Card Check: Can It Organize the Unorganized?

    Kim Moody

    Employers do everything in their power to make sure workers don’t get a chance to vote for a union. They flout labor law, making a joke of the familiar National Labor Relations Board procedures where the government’s job is to oversee a “fair fight” election between the union and the boss. . . .


    Yes
  • Hospital Organizing Has Slowed, Two Years After Labor Board's Controversial Supervisor Decision

    Mischa Gaus

    Joanne Thompson found out the hard way how management is exploiting a loose definition of a supervisor to strip workers of the ability to form unions. She had spent five years as a “charge nurse” at West Houston Medical Center, checking up on medication schedules and juggling workloads for the nurses on her floor, who monitor heart patients....


    Yes
  • Labor Board Limits Political Strikes

    Robert Schwartz

    On May Day 2006, hundreds of thousands of immigrant workers walked off their jobs to protest restrictive immigration legislation. Some were fired, and brought complaints to the board. Ronald Meisburg, the National Labor Relations Board general counsel, responded by posting a directive on “political advocacy” this July that enables bosses to immediately fire employees who participate in work stoppages of a political nature....


    Yes
  • ‘Card Check’ Takes a Hit

    Kim Moody

    The National Labor Relations Board rewrote in September a 40-year-old doctrine that will undermine one of labor’s more successful organizing tactics—card-check recognition. . . .


    Yes