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The National Labor Relations Board is an independent agency of the United States federal government created in 1935 as part of the National Labor Relations Act. The Board consists of five presidentially-appointed members, who are charged with overseeing union elections and hearing complaints of unfair labor practices under the NLRA. less -

“Labor Law Update: New Union Election Rules Partially Overturned by New Court Decision”

Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP on 6/5/2020

Back in December 2019, HRLegalist blogged about the National Labor Relations Board’s (“NLRB”) new union election rules. This set of rules was a sweeping series of reforms that sought to slow down the union elections process,...more

NLRB Ambush Election Rule Withstands an Appeal

Dickinson Wright on 6/17/2016

An employer-led challenge to the National Labor Relations Board’s 2015 changes to union election rules has been rejected by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The rejection means that the controversial rule changes...more

NLRB Expedited Election Rules Survive Fifth Circuit Appeal

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 6/14/2016

Seyfarth Synopsis: The Fifth Circuit upheld the NLRB’s expedited union election rules on Friday, rejecting an appeal from construction-industry employers and small businesses - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth...more

NLRB’s New Election Rules Are Here to Stay

Franczek P.C. on 7/31/2015

The NLRB’s “ambush” or “quickie” election rules are definitely here to stay. A federal judge in a Washington, D.C. district court rejected the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other business groups’ challenge to the Board’s new...more

NLRB’s “Quickie Election” Rules Survive Court Challenge

Franczek P.C. on 6/4/2015

On Monday, a federal court in Texas rejected a challenge to the NLRB’s final rules regarding representation elections, finding the rules do not violate the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) or the Administrative Procedures...more

U.S. Chamber and Business Groups File Suit to Block New NLRB Election Rule

Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC on 1/12/2015

This week, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and several business trade groups announced that they jointly filed a complaint in federal court against the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), seeking to strike the Board’s new...more

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