Once upon a time, unions had to win elections fair and square to organize the workplace. And it required a majority of workers to form a collective bargaining unit. Today, though, thanks to the tools handed to Big Labor by the Obama Administration’s radical National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), workplaces across the country are bracing for a new type of union.
In 2011, the NLRB changed decades of longstanding labor laws in its decision on Specialty Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center of Mobile. In effect, the Specialty Healthcare ruling made it easier to unionize workplaces by allowing the creation of “micro-unions” — or the unionization of sub-units of a workforce — fundamentally changing the traditional bargaining unit standard that union elections operated under for decades.
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