NLRB to Review Successor Bar Doctrine for Ejecting Unions (1)

The NLRB has teed up a case that could strike down its Obama-era restriction on challenges to a union’s status as workers’ exclusive bargaining agent after one employer is replaced by a successor company.

The National Labor Relations Board said Oct. 22 that it will review its 2011 ruling in UGL-UNICCO Service that a successor employer must bargain for a reasonable time with a union before employees can try to vote out that union. The order was signed by the board’s three Republican members without participation from its only Democratic member.

The decision highlights the NLRB majority’s efforts to make ...