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NLRB's New Rules for Determining the Appropriateness of Microunits
Author(s) -
Wich Scott
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
management report for nonunion organizations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1530-8286
pISSN - 0745-4880
DOI - 10.1002/mare.30546
Subject(s) - workforce , test (biology) , labor relations , business , accounting , management , political science , public relations , law , economics , paleontology , biology
As we noted in last month's issue of Management Report , the National Labor Relations Board recently clarified its test for determining when the Board will accept a “microunit” as an appropriate group to organize within an employer's larger workforce. The ruling stopped the International Association of Machinists, which has been trying for years to organize the more than 2,700 workers at a Boeing plant in South Carolina, from representing a microunit of fewer than 200 technicians who are part of the workforce ( The Boeing Company , 368 NLRB No. 67 (2019)). This article discusses the Board's new three‐prong test for whether a proposed microunit is appropriate.