A divided National Labor Relations Board upheld its rule temporarily shielding unions from efforts to eject them following a change in ownership at a company.
In a 2-1 decision, an NLRB panel rejected a Puerto Rico hospital’s challenge to the board’s 2011 decision reinstating and modifying its successor bar doctrine, which gives a union an irrebuttable presumption of majority support from workers for at least six months after control of a business changes hands.
“There is simply no reason to revisit sound Board doctrine in this case,” the panel’s two Democratic members said in the Tuesday ruling. “It is ...