NLRB Keeps ‘Contract Bar’ Rule Shielding Unions From Ouster (2)

The National Labor Relations Board decided against modifying or eliminating one of its rules that limits when workers can try to eject an existing union from their workplace.

The board backed off changing its “contract bar” in a decision Wednesday, despite previously inviting public input and receiving briefs from unions, employer advocates, lawmakers, and other commenters.

In its divided ruling, the NLRB said that “a sufficiently compelling case has not been made for any particular proposed modification.”

The contract bar prohibits union decertification elections while a collective bargaining agreement is in effect, for up to three years. That doctrine, which ...