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Report Ponders a Democratic NLRB

By Robert J. Ambrogi

Fasten your seatbelts for a Democratic National Labor Relations Board. That is the warning that opens a new U.S. Chamber of Commerce report that considers how the labor board is likely to change under the Obama Administration. "After eight years of Republican majorities and relatively well-balanced NLRB decisions, most of which were accepted by the federal circuit courts of appeals, the Obama Administration will usher in a new Democratic, pro-union majority set to reverse Bush Board decisions and much more," says the report, The National Labor Relations Board in the Obama Administration: What Changes to Expect. As Michael Fox explains at his blog, Jottings By An Employer's Lawyer, the report was written for the U.S. Chamber by two of his partners at Ogletree Deakins, the father/son duo of Harold P. Coxson Jr. and Christopher R. Coxson. Among labor lawyers, much speculation of late has been focused on the potential implications of the Employee Free Choice Act. But while the fate of the EFCA remains uncertain, the election of President Obama means that changes in NLRB precedent are sure to come, Fox suggests. With three vacancies on its five-seat board and the two occupied seats split between Democrat Wilma B. Liebman...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on September 15, 2009 (boomark / email).