President Obama said he would consider making recess appointments to the NLRB due to the Senate's failure to move on any of the three nominations.

The majority, quoting from NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. ( 1937 ), said that the scope of the interstate commerce power

Ramon Soliz, President of El Centro ’ s Board of Directors, said: “ We support the employees ’ right to vote if they want union representation ” ( NLRB, 1998 ).

Nathan Witt ( February 11, 1903 – February 16, 1982 ) was an American lawyer who is best known as being the Secretary of the National Labor Relations Board ( NLRB ) from 1937 to 1940.

After the workers won their union, Foxwoods Casino appealed the election results, reasserting its jurisdictional challenge and claiming that the National Labor Relations Board made mistakes in conducting the vote, that the NLRB only printed the ballot in English and only provided notices explaining the election in only one form of the Chinese language, disenfranchised workers, and that interactions by union officials and some voters were unlawful.

Witt placed Rosenberg in charge of a group of six to eight attorneys during a Congressional investigation into the questionable activities of the NLRB in 1938 and 1939.

Following an NLRB determination that an election be held, approximately 75 of Virginia Overland's hourly transportation and maintenance employees voted at the Petersburg terminal in May 1987.

Victims of retaliation against union organizing and other concerted activities to improve working conditions have six months to make complaints to the National Labor Relations Board ( NLRB ).

Congress also amended the National Labor Relations Act, as part of the same piece of legislation that created the LMRDA, by tightening the Taft-Hartley Act's prohibitions against secondary boycotts, prohibiting certain types of " hot cargo " agreements, under which an employer agreed to cease doing business with other employers, and empowered the General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board to seek an injunction against a union that engages in recognitional picketing of an employer for more than thirty days without filing a petition for representation with the NLRB.

The NLRB and the courts provide different solutions against unions that breached their duty of fair representation.

Because the Board does not usually have the jurisdiction to enforce the collective bargaining agreement or to issue a remedial order against an employer that has violated it, the NLRB often cannot award complete relief to employees.

The NLRB ruled against the company and ordered the workers be rehired and given back pay, but Jones & Laughlin refused to comply on the grounds that they believed the act was unconstitutional.

* to discriminate against an employee for filing charges with the NLRB or taking part in any NLRB proceedings

From 2004 to 2008 it resisted attempts by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union to organize workers at its processing plant, and according to the AFL-CIO has been found by the National Labor Relations Board ( NLRB ) to have violated a number of labor laws in its campaign against the union ..

Later testimony revealed that an internal NLRB study had backed Leiseron and that Madden and Smith had suppressed it, and that Witt had assisted Madden in secretly building public and expert support for the NLRB ( expending federal funds in lobbying against Congress ).

A week before the scheduled union election that July, nurses filed charges against the hospital with the National Labor Relations Board ( NLRB ).

The IWW represents administrative and maintenance workers under contract in Seattle, while the union in Pittsburgh lost 22-21 in an NLRB election, only to have the results invalidated in late 2006, based on management's behavior before the election.

Second, the American Federation of Labor and some employers accused the NLRB of favoring the Congress of Industrial Organizations, particularly when determining whether to hold union elections in plant-wide, or wall-to-wall, units, which the CIO usually sought, or to hold separate elections in separate craft units, which the craft unions in the AFL favored.

While the NLRB initially favored plant-wide units, which tacitly favored the CIO's industrial unionism, it retreated to a compromise position several years later under pressure from Congress that allowed craft unions to seek separate representation of smaller groups of workers at the same time that another union was seeking a wall-to-wall unit.

If the employer refuses to recognize the union, the union can be certified through a secret-ballot election conducted by the NLRB.

The amendments required union leaders to file affidavits with the United States Department of Labor declaring that they were not supporters of the Communist Party and had no relationship with any organization seeking the " overthrow of the United States government by force or by any illegal or unconstitutional means " as a condition to participating in NLRB proceedings.

The National Labor Relations Board ( NLRB ) is an independent agency of the United States government charged with conducting elections for labor union representation and with investigating and remedying unfair labor practices.

It also required all union officers to sign an affidavit that they were not Communists in order for the union to bring a case before the NLRB.

That Congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act, which, among other things, required all union officers to sign an affidavit that they were not Communists in order for the union to bring a case before the NLRB.

While a union shop agreement that, by its literal terms, requires an employee to become a member in good standing might appear to be unlawful on its face and therefore unenforceable, the National Labor Relations Board ( NLRB ) and the courts have uniformly interpreted such clauses to require no more than what the law permits ( such as payment of dues ).

Union-represented employees covered by a union shop agreement may ask the NLRB to hold a " deauthorization election " to allow all bargaining unit employees to vote to determine whether the clause will continue to remain in effect.

This prompted the players to petition the National Labor Relations Board ( NLRB ) for union certification.

Attorney Ed Garvey was hired by the NFLPA in 1971 to act as their first executive director, and the NFLPA became officially certified as a union by the NLRB the same year.

An NLRB Administrative Law Judge ruled that the union and the board provided ample explanation of the election in a variety of languages.

The National Labor Relations Act ( NLRA, the " Wagner Act ") gives private sector workers the right to choose whether they wish to be represented by a union and establishes the National Labor Relations Board ( NLRB ) to hold elections for that purpose.

The NLRB applies a similarly strict standard in reviewing unions ' enforcement of exclusive hiring halls, i. e., those in which the employer is bound, by contract, to hire only employees referred to it by the union.

The NLRB requires unions to establish clear procedures and to follow those procedures in order to minimize the likelihood that the union would use a hiring hall procedure to exclude non-members or those out of favour with the union from the workplace.

Three members ' terms expired in December 2007, leaving the NLRB with just two members — Chair Wilma B. Liebman and Member Peter Schaumber.

On June 15, 2004, the NLRB under the George W. Bush administration effectively reversed the previous ruling by a three to two vote.

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Third, as time went by, employers and their allies in Congress also criticized the NLRB for its expansive definition of " employee " and for allowing supervisors and plant guards to form unions, sometimes affiliated with the unions that represented the employees whom they were supposed to supervise or police.

Many accused the NLRB of a general pro-union and anti-employer bias, pointing to the Board's controversial decisions in such areas as employer free speech and " mixed motive " cases, in which the NLRB held that an employer violated the Act by firing an employee for anti-union reasons even if the employee had actually engaged in misconduct.

In April 2009, President Obama nominated Craig Becker ( Associate General Counsel of the Service Employees International Union ), Mark Gaston Pearce ( a member on the Industrial Board of Appeals, an agency of the New York State Department of Labor ), and Brian Hayes ( Republican Labor Policy Director for the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions ) to fill the three empty seats on the NLRB.

The General Counsel, appointed by the President to a 4-year term, is independent from the Board and is responsible for the investigation and prosecution of unfair labor practice cases and for the general supervision of the NLRB field offices in the processing of cases.

On the other hand, the NLRB applies the more deferential standard applied to union decisions generally in the case of non-exclusive hiring halls, i. e., those in which the union has the power to refer applicants for employment but the employer may also hire employees " off the street "; in those cases the union is barred from acting arbitrarily, in bad faith or discriminatorily.

In October 1986, some of the employees at the largest operation in the Tri-Cities area and the Amalgamated Transit Union ( ATU ) petitioned the National Labor Relations Board ( NLRB ) for labor union elections.

* Case Brief for NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. at Lawnix. com

The NLRB placed 26 counts before an administrative law judge for a hearing in July, 1998 on charges that management had violated of workers rights, by firing and harassing people for union activity, illegal surveillance and spying on pro-union workers, and punishing pro-union workers by withholding wage increases ” ( NLRB, 1998 ).

When the Guild appealed to the National Labor Relations Board ( NLRB ), the NLRB certified the Guild as the " exclusive bargaining agency " for screenwriters employed by 13 of 18 Hollywood studios, based on elections in which writers chose the Guild over the Screen Playwrights.