UPS Loses Court Challenge to Obama-Era Union Election Rules (1)

UPS Ground Freight Inc. lost its bid April 19 to get the D.C. Circuit to overturn a union election by delivery drivers at one of its Pennsylvania distribution facilities.

The federal appeals court’s ruling deals a small blow to ongoing lobbying efforts by the business community to roll back a series of policy changes for union election procedures—derided as the “ambush” or “quickie” election rules—that were enacted in 2014. The rules were meant to streamline and “remove unnecessary barriers to the fair and expeditious resolution” of union elections, National Labor Relations Board officials said at the time.

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