Posts tagged NLRB regional directors
Op-ed: Labor Board Must Fix Blocking Charges to Protect Employee Choice
June 17, 2026 // When employees sought representation, the NLRB emphasized speed to capture employee sentiment before it dissipated. But when employees sought to remove or test support for an incumbent union, blocking charges made by the union could postpone a vote for years while allegations, valid or not, are investigated, tried, appealed, or supplemented by new charges. That asymmetry is difficult to square with the act’s protection of a two-way street. Changes in neither 2020 nor 2024 produced a system that reliably safeguards employee free choice. The current NLRB can fix this long-standing problem by closing loopholes, ensuring employees can vote promptly, and taking responsibility for decisions that prevent ballots from being counted.
New NLRB guidance emphasizes need for ‘prompt and fair’ settlements in unfair labor practice disputes
June 27, 2025 // Focus on facilitating efficient, prompt and fair settlements The acting general counsel’s memo initially discusses the need for “efficiency” in the NLRB’s approach toward settlement of charges, noting that “’if we attempt to accomplish everything, we risk accomplishing nothing.’” To that point, Cowen had already rescinded four memos from the prior general counsel on remedial relief – GC 21-06, GC 21-07, GC 22-06, and GC 24-04. In those memos, Regions had been directed to obtain full remedial relief in settlements of charges, and limits on certain clauses and requirements for certain forms of relief were added. The acting general counsel’s memo comments that “our remedial enthusiasm’ should not “distract us from achieving a prompt and fair resolution of disputed matters.”