ANALYSIS: Even After ‘Micro Unit’ Ruling, Unions Still Aim Small

The National Labor Relations Board’s PCC Structurals ruling may be making it harder for a union to represent a specific subgroup of workers within a company, but it has not led to an overall shift in labor’s focus toward organizing bigger bargaining units, NLRB election results show.

A recent Bloomberg Law review found dozens of cases in which the NLRB invoked its December 2017 decision when rejecting the narrow scope of proposed bargaining units (sometimes referred to as “micro units”), leaving unions with the choice of either giving up or spending time and money to organize a larger, less cohesive ...