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Labor/Employment

Mar. 13, 2013

Doubts over NLRB recess appointments leave businesses, workers hanging

While the Supreme Court decides if it will review the validity of Obama's recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board, the fate of at least 127 California cases sits in limbo.


By Laura Hautala


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Shortly after some of its workers voted to join the Teamsters union in 2010, West Sacramento-based trucking company KAG West LLC gave raises to its nonunion employees. But the union, unhappy that its members were excluded, brought a complaint to the National Labor Relations Board, the federal agency that judges whether businesses, unions or employers have violated the National Labor Relations Act. After an inv...

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