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NLRB’s Labor Day Gifts To Unions
IBD's Capital Hill ^ | 8/30/2011 | Sean Higgins

Posted on 08/30/2011 3:52:13 PM PDT by Slyscribe

The National Labor Relations Board announced a trio of pro-union rulings today that are, coincidentally or not, just in time for the Labor Day holiday.

The first announcement was the rollback of a pair of previous changes that made it easier for employees to contest union representation. The second announcement was a ruling that will make it easier for unions to organize smaller groups in workplaces, giving them a foothold in workplaces they have struggled to organize in the past.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: boeing; labor; nlrb; unions

1 posted on 08/30/2011 3:52:22 PM PDT by Slyscribe
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To: Slyscribe

Billions of dollars are at stake for unions and we shouldn’t expect them to go easily into that dark night.

All this simply lets us defund the NRLB in the future, along with a host of other alphabet soup agencies.


2 posted on 08/31/2011 3:49:32 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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