My colleague, Steven M. Swirsky, published a Management Memo post that will be of interest to many of our readers: “First Challenge to NLRB’s New Election Rules Dismissed –Rules Held Constitutional.”
Following is an excerpt:
One of two lawsuits challenging the National Labor Relations Board’s authority to issue the expedited election rules that took effect on April 14, 2015, has now been dismissed by Judge Robert L. Pitman of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas in Austin. In his 27 page decision, Judge Pitman that the plaintiffs, including Associated Builders and Contractors of Texas and the National Federation of Independent Businessmen, could not establish that the NLRB’s December 14, 2014 rule “Representation – Case Procedures; Final Rule,” (the “New Rule”) should be declared by the Court to be invalid under the Administrative Procedures Act, that the New Rule violated employers’ rights under the National Labor Relations Act (the “Act”) by compelling them to provide unions with employees’ names and information before an election is directed or agreed to, by denying employers of their rights to a hearing prior to an election and by interfering with employers’ rights to free speech as provided for in Section 8(c) of the Act.
Read the full blog post here.