Round 2: NLRB Issues New Proposed Expedited Election Rules

Déjà vu all over again. As predicted in an earlier post here, on Wednesday, February 5, 2014, the National Labor Relations Board (“Board” or “NLRB”) announced “new” proposed rules to expedite the union election process. If this sounds familiar, it is because in June 2011 the Board proposed, in substance, the same expedited election rules and in December 2011 decided to approve and implement certain of the new rules — but that decision was invalidated by a district court over a quorum issue.  The new rules will not have the quorum defect of the old rules.

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