Organized labor’s legal challenge to changes to the NLRB’s union election framework will require a federal judge to look past the agency’s claim that a new rule is merely procedural and probe what it actually does, according to administrative law scholars.
The AFL-CIO filed a lawsuit March 6 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia arguing the National Labor Relations Board violated administrative law by issuing a substantive rule without going through the full notice-and-comment rulemaking process. The regulation to modify the board’s procedures for union elections, set to take effect April 16, extends deadlines and adds ...