Cohousing-L Mailing List: from Wall Street Journal, June 22

[Lou Lieb (louislieb]

sorry i couldn't get the whole article on the website. 

Plan to Ease Way for Unions
Labor Board Proposes Speeding Up Organizing Votes; Employers, GOP Cry Foul
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BY MELANIE TROTTMAN AND KRIS MAHER

The National Labor Relations Board Tuesday proposed the most sweeping changes 
to the federal rules governing union organizing elections since 1947, giving a 
boost to unions that have long called for the agency to give employers less 
time to fight representation votes.

The NLRB's proposals would likely compress the time between a formal call for a 
vote by workers on whether to join a union, and the election itself. It is the 
latest in a series of actions by the board and other agencies controlled by 
Obama administration appointees that respond to labor leaders' calls for more 
union friendly federal ...