The National Labor Relations Board, a federal agency that supervises labor relations had already tried twice in 2011, and once again in 2014 before finally pinning down union election procedures. The reform to the procedure for company unionization has finally been laid down and the new published regulation has taken on board all the points put forward at the start of the year. It comes into force during spring 2015 and notably it allows unions to campaign via electronic media.
Once the episode that had paralyzed the agency (c.f. article No. 130240) was behind it, the National Labor Relations Board could, at the start of this year, launch its reform of company unionization procedures (c.f. article No. 8161). In essence, the board is aiming to streamline employee representatives’ elections by both allowing unions to campaign via electronic media and also by reducing the time that litigation over elections are dealt with (for more on this c.f.
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