Eleventh Cir. Wary Security Workers Are Supervisors in NLRB Case

The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit appeared skeptical of a private security company’s arguments that its lieutenants at a Florida nuclear facility are supervisors who are unable to unionize.

The case—which stems from a March 2024 NLRB decision ordering Universal Protection Services LLC to bargain with a union representing the lieutenants—has the potential to clarify the Eleventh Circuit’s threshold for when a worker exercises enough authority to qualify as a supervisor under the National Labor Relations Act.

A three-judge panel during oral arguments Wednesday pressed an attorney for the company, which does business as Allied Universal Security ...