Comments on: Even the NLRB can’t comply with federal labor law

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Tue, 01 Mar 2016 22:43:28 +0000

[…] of federal labor laws in dealing with its own union employees illustrates. It is also noted at Overlawyered and courtesy of Jon Nadler […]

By: SPO

SPO — Fri, 26 Feb 2016 22:33:30 +0000

The government’s failure to comply with USERRA–well-documented–is a national disgrace.

By: Chris Hoey

Chris Hoey — Fri, 26 Feb 2016 20:51:15 +0000

Is there a different standard for good faith bargaining under the FLRA as opposed to the NLRA? I thought good faith is a requisite of both. Or are private sector employers held to different standards than the bureaucracy?
At the point I left the NLRB in 1965, its union was in the organizational stage, but the Director of Region 22, John Cuneo, had already said (tongue in cheek?) that, “Any union in this place is going to be company dominated.”

By: Peter Orlowicz

Peter Orlowicz — Fri, 26 Feb 2016 14:25:11 +0000

Of course, the National Labor Relations Act is different than the Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute, and NLRB doesn’t administer the statute for federal labor relations (which is why the decision is posted by the Federal Labor Relations Authority.) But that’s a minor detail.