Unionized Jobs at Transportation Firm Expand Under NLRB Ruling

A unionized group of MV Transportation Inc. employees in Southern California should include maintenance supervisors because they share a community of interest with those other workers, a divided National Labor Relations Board ruled.

The NLRB reversed a regional director’s order excluding the maintenance supervisors, deciding Wednesday that the balance of relevant factors favors bringing them into the unit composed of road supervisors, maintenance clerks, dispatchers, and traffic controllers at facilities in Oceanside and Escondido.

The decision clarified the legal standard to resolve the placement of a type of worker who voted in an election subject to challenge, but whose placement ...