United States: the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) comes back to life

The employers launched the red alert. Randel Johnson, the US Chamber of Commerce’s labor relations expert launched the “red alert” for the three million businesses belonging to the Chamber, because he fears “radical changes” in the NLRB which will “significantly impair the ability of America’s job creators to compete”. Craig Becker is “very intelligent” according to Professor Rick Hurd. “He is an expert in activist campaigns. Consequently, the employers fear that he finds new legislative interpretations in favour of the unions.
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ate’s recess, during Easter, to appoint two representatives at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the agency which certifies the preliminary elections of a trade union before its arrival in a company. This agency, created by Congress in 1935 to administer the National Labor Relations Act, had been at a stalemate for two years because only 2 of the 5 NLRB vacancies had been filled. President George Bush was unsuccessful in filling the empty vacancies. His “very anti-unions” nominees, exp

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