Case: Labor Relations/Exhaustion of Remedies (6th Cir.)

The NLRB is entitled to enforcement of its decision finding that Bannum Place of Saginaw, LLC, a private company that runs a residential reentry center for recently released inmates from federal prisons, committed unfair labor practices in violation of federal labor law in an attempt to prevent its workers from unionizing, the Sixth Circuit ruled. Bannum Place of Saginaw had argued that it is a joint employer with the Federal Bureau of Prisons and thus falls within the federal government exemption to the NLRA. The board affirmed an ALJ’s denial of Bannum’s motion to dismiss the unfair-labor-practices charge, holding that ...