NLRB Ruling ‘Cuts Voluntary Recognition off at the Knees’
3rd October 2007
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Loading ...The Republican-dominated National Labor Relations Board is at it again. Instead of protecting workers' freedom to join a union, the Bush-appointed members continue to take away workers' rights.
In a partisan vote, the board ruled Sept. 28 that even if employers voluntarily recognize a union based on union authorization cards (also known as card-check), anti-union employees can petition for an NLRB decertification election at any time. Just 30 percent of the employees need to sign the petition for the decertification election. The only exceptions the board allows is if the employees are notified of their right to petition for a decertification election before recognition and they fail to petition for an election within 45 days.