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Labor/Employment

May 23, 2012

Setbacks foil labor board's aggressive new rule-making

Despite recent setbacks in federal court, management-side lawyers say they expect the National Labor Relations Board will continue aggresively to try to make union-friendly changes to U.S. labor law.


By Brian Sumers


Daily Journal Staff Writer


What can a federal agency do when courts repeatedly thwart its implementation of key priorities?


In the case of the National Labor Relations Board, experts say the answer is simple: Keep trying.


Last week, a federal district judge in Washington, D.C. rebuked the board for pushing through an important union-friendly change without engaging the panel's lone Republican member. By voting 2...

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