Labor/Employment
Jun. 9, 2021
NLRB’s Republican majority leaves contract-bar doctrine intact
Last summer, the National Labor Relations Board asked for public input as to whether it should rescind, modify or simply retain its long-standing contract bar doctrine.





Maria Anastas
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Ogletree Deakins
Maria is a traditional labor law expert and former NLRB attorney. The overwhelming majority of her practice is focused on representing employers before the NLRB and during union organizing drives, corporate campaigns and collective bargaining. She has earned a national reputation for handling hundreds of union organizing drives.
Last summer, the National Labor Relations Board asked for public input as to whether it should rescind, modify or simply retain its long-standing contract bar doctrine. The doctrine limits workers from attempting to remove their union while a union contract is in effect, unless they file an election petition within a certain 30-day “window period” shortly before the expiration of the collective bargaining agreement covering their terms and conditions of employment.
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