Posts tagged successor bar rule
Appeals court upholds NLRB’s ‘successor bar’ rule
March 5, 2024 // The NLRB previously ruled that Hospital Menonita de Guayama violated the National Labor Relations Act by failing to recognize and bargain with the union of a hospital it acquired in 2017. The hospital challenged the ruling, claiming the union had lost majority status and that NLRB had vacillated in its stance on the successor bar rule over the years. The NLRB and the hospital’s lawyer did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
US Brick workers seek to overturn policy preventing them from voting out Teamsters union
March 15, 2022 // “The successor bar undermines the NLRA’s core purpose of employee free choice by disregarding employees’ actual desires and past experiences with their union representative. It also fails to recognize the Board’s highest calling: to conduct elections when there is a question of representation and to ensure employees are represented by a union of their choosing,” Atkins’ request for review states.