By: Kenneth R. Dolin, Esq.
On January 25, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit held that the purported recess appointments of National Labor Relations Board (“Board”) members Sharon Block and Richard Griffin, as well as former member Terence Flynn, were unconstitutional because these appointments were made while the Senate was not
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Recent developments surrounding the National Labor Relations Board have cast a pall over this federal agency. On Tuesday, President Obama announced three nominations to the NLRB in an attempt to rectify the situation. The President renominated current Chairman Mark Gaston Pearce and nominated two management-side attorneys, Philip A. Miscimarra and Harry I.…
By: David L. Streck
Jeanette Geary filed an unfair labor practice charge alleging that a local nursing union illegally forced her and others to pay for union lobbying or lose their jobs. Although the NLRB held that the union could require such payments, it had requested further briefs before issuing a final appealable order.
On…
