Rule Shielding Unions From Ouster Targeted by Anti-Union Group

The National Labor Relations Board should protect employee free choice by throwing out its 81-year-old rule that prohibits an election to eject a union while a collective bargaining agreement is in effect, a conservative advocacy group argued.

The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation urged the NLRB to eliminate its “contract bar” rule in a case that challenges whether a United Food and Commercial Workers local still has the support of a majority of the 800 unionized workers at the Mountaire Farms Inc. poultry plant in Delaware. The foundation represents the Mountaire worker who filed the decertification petition with ...