NLRB Previews Planned Rule on Union Access to Employer Property (1)

Members of the National Labor Relations Board gave a preview of a forthcoming rule on when and how unions can enter an employer’s property to organize, part of the ambitious slate of regulations from an agency that traditionally makes national policy via individual cases.

The planned Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, which is expected to restrict the current bounds of lawful union access to businesses’ property, will likely be based on principles underlying a series of decisions on property access that the board issued in recent months, according to NLRB member William Emanuel’s presentation Nov. 7 at the American Bar Association’s ...