Court Strikes Down Major Parts of NLRB Union Election Rules

A federal judge has struck down major portions of a new set of regulations that modify how union elections are conducted, ruling that the National Labor Relations Board should have given the public a chance to weigh in on those components of the rulemaking.

The court’s Saturday decision effectively blocks the full rule from taking effect on June 1, as planned.

The NLRB, which administers elections when a group of workers seek to unionize, issued the final rule in December without first releasing a proposed version for public comment.

The rules make a series of modifications to the board’s protocol ...