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Labor/Employment

Jun. 30, 2012

True impact yet to be seen in NLRB’s new 'micro union’ standard

The new framework greatly increases the likelihood that a workplace could be fractionalized into multiple bargaining units. By Mark Theodore of Proskauer Rose LLP


By Mark Theodore


"What is the NLRB, anyway?" That was the question my father asked me 22 years ago, after I told him I had accepted a job with the agency. The National Labor Relations Board, an independent federal agency of about 2,000 people, has a storied history that remained little known for years. With union membership dwindling and the rise of alternative remedies, the agency just was not visible in many workplaces.


Now, of course, hard...

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