Construction Firm’s Union Ejection Bid Evades Court Review (1)

A federal appeals court shut down a road construction company’s challenge to the National Labor Relations Board’s order throwing out its workers’ requests to oust a union.

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled Monday that Rieth-Riley Construction Co. couldn’t repurpose the standard process for getting judicial review of union election results to contest the NLRB’s dismissal of union decertification petitions.

The ruling clarifies the limits on court oversight of the NLRB’s decisions in union representation cases.

Although the National Labor Relations Act only permits judicial review of unfair labor practice rulings, employers can get courts to ...