The latest ruling by the Republican-dominated board would enable a minority of employees to negate the majority’s decision to have a union, even when the employer has agreed to recognize the union through majority sign-up or card check and is already engaged in bargaining with the union for a contract.
AFL-CIO -- The case stems from an agreement by Dana Corp. and Metaldyne Corp. with the United Autoworkers not to interfere in workers' efforts to form a union if a majority has signed union authorization cards. After the union was recognized, employees in each unit filed a petition seeking a decertification election. The NLRB regional director dismissed the petitions based on the board’s "recognition-bar" doctrine that an employer’s voluntary recognition of a union bars an election petition filed by a few employees or a rival union for a reasonable period of time to permit collective bargaining to succeed. The Board's ruling will allow a minority of employees to file a decertification petition despite the express wishes of the majority and even if the parties have succeeded in reaching a collective bargaining agreement.
The Republican members of the Board have issued a number of decisions that negatively impact workers, including last year’s ruling to strip nurses and other workers with occasional supervisory duties of their union rights - - and they are expected to issue a host of negative decisions in the coming days.
It’s time for the politicization at the NLRB to stop. The Board must return to its original intent of protecting workers’ basic freedoms rather than infringing upon them.
Contact: Steve Smith 202-637-5018
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