By Edwin S. Hopson
On June 22, 2011, the National Labor Relations Board issued a notice of proposed rulemaking proposing various amendments of its rules governing the filing and processing of representation election petitions. On December 22, 2011, the NLRB issued a final rule amending its regulations which takes effect today. The final ...
By Edwin S. Hopson
According to a press release issued today by U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), the ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, the Senate rejected a resolution that would have nullified the NLRB’s revised union representation rules set to go into effect April 30, 2012. The vote was reportedly 54 ...
By Edwin S. Hopson
On April 20, 2012, Republican U.S. Senator Mike Enzi of Wyoming, the ranking member on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, announced that it was expected that the full Senate on April 23 and 24 will debate S.J. Res 36, which seeks to invalidate the NLRB’s regulation that would speed up the union ...
By Edwin S. Hopson
Because of declining case loads, NLRB Acting General Counsel Lafe Solomon has announced implementation of a pilot program that will consolidate a number regional offices effective May 1, 2012. Under the plan, staff in regional offices in Atlanta, Georgia (Region 10) and Winston-Salem, North Carolina (Region 11) will report ...
By Edwin S. Hopson
The Washington Post, quoting from a story by the Associated Press, reported on Tuesday, April 17, 2012, that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit had “temporarily blocked the National Labor Relations Board from making millions of businesses put up posters informing workers of their right to form ...
By Edwin S. Hopson
On April 13, 2012, U.S. District Judge David C. Norton of the U.S. District Court for South Carolina, ruled in an action brought by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and others that the National Labor Relations Board’s notice posting rule set to go into effect April 30, 2012, was “unlawful under the [Administrative Procedure ...
By Edwin S. Hopson
On March 29, 2012, in Center For Social Change, Inc., 358 NLRB No. 24 (2012), the five member National Labor Relations Board unanimously rejected a contention by the respondent that President’s Obama’s recess appointments of Members Block, Griffin and Flynn in January 2012, were invalid and that therefore the Board lacked ...