National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel (GC) Jennifer Abruzzo is taking aggressive positions designed to help unions be more successful in organizing. The GC is the agency’s top lawyer. While she can’t unilaterally change the law, she can argue prior precedent was wrongly decided and urge the present union-friendly NLRB members to change the organizing rules.
Making Elections Optional
For about 50 years, the law has been stable. An employer can insist on an NLRB-supervised secret-ballot election instead of recognizing a union as the exclusive representative of its employees when a union claims it has authorization cards signed by a majority of the workers.
