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Unions Hope for Big Assist From NLRB in Organizing Temporary Employees
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
management report for nonunion organizations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1530-8286
pISSN - 0745-4880
DOI - 10.1002/mare.30082
Subject(s) - staffing , agency (philosophy) , unit (ring theory) , labor relations , collective bargaining , citation , business , closure (psychology) , public relations , political science , law , psychology , sociology , social science , mathematics education
Under current National Labor Relations Board rules, a union can organize a bargaining unit that combines temporary workers, provided by a staffing agency, and the user employer's regular employees only if both employers consent. Since consent is unlikely, unions are blocked from organizing a single unit that mixes the two types of employees. But that may change.