Report: 91 decisions overturned without a single Republican vote
President Barack Obama’s top labor arbiters have overturned a cumulative 4,500 years of legal precedent over the past eight years, according to a new study.
The National Labor Relations Board, an agency that oversees union elections and workplace disputes, has issued numerous new rules that changed longstanding agency practices, as well as issued decisions that overturned decades of precedent.
In all, the board has overturned 91 precedents, wiping out more than 4,000 years of case law—averaging more than 45 years per decision; the agency’s new election rules overturned a combined 454 years of protocol, according to a study from three labor attorneys at the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace and Workplace Policy Institute.
Those decisions and new rules have radically changed workplace operations on everything from establishing micro-unions to dues withholdings to holding umbrella companies accountable for the behavior of franchisees or subcontractors to shortening the length of union campaigns and disclosure practices during elections.
The overturned precedents have been in lockstep with the labor agenda at the expense of standing law that had been previously untouched by appointees from both Democratic and Republican White Houses, according to the report.
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Obama's NLRB has overturned a combined 4,500 years of legal precedent https://t.co/QfSgNSWoDv
— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) December 7, 2016
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