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NLRB Makes It Easier for Employers to Challenge “Micro‐Units”
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
management report for nonunion organizations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1530-8286
pISSN - 0745-4880
DOI - 10.1002/mare.30358
Subject(s) - swift , specialty , unit (ring theory) , collective bargaining , representation (politics) , health care , simple (philosophy) , business , labor relations , non union , political science , public relations , law , medicine , computer science , psychology , family medicine , surgery , philosophy , mathematics education , epistemology , politics , programming language
In another surprisingly swift reversal of precedent, in a mid‐December 2016 decision, the National Labor Relations Board has overruled Specialty Healthcare , the so‐called “micro‐unit” decision that has generated a number of cases reported in this newsletter. Instead of the “overwhelming community‐of‐interests” standard adopted by the Obama Board's 2011 Specialty Healthcare decision, the new, traditional Trump Board has returned to the simple “community‐of‐interests” standard for determining an appropriate bargaining unit in union representation cases ( PCC Structurals, Inc. , 365 NLRB No. 160 (2017)).