{"id":181310,"date":"2016-08-03T20:14:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T01:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/08\/03\/nlrb-rules-that-temps-can-unionize-by-workplace\/"},"modified":"2016-08-03T20:14:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T01:14:00","slug":"nlrb-rules-that-temps-can-unionize-by-workplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/08\/03\/nlrb-rules-that-temps-can-unionize-by-workplace\/","title":{"rendered":"NLRB Rules That Temps Can Unionize by Workplace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has <a href=\"http:\/\/prospect.org\/article\/war-over-obamas-labor-agenda\">permatemps employed by outside employee leasing firms can organize by workplace<\/a>, which means that business will no longer be able to sabotage unionization efforts by splitting their worker among outside firms:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The National Labor Relations Board is reaffirming its view that labor law must now address the brave new world of the fissured workplace\u2014where workers are often separated from their actual employer by layers of subcontractors and staffing agencies. On Monday, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nlrb.gov\/news-outreach\/news-story\/board-decides-miller-anderson-returns-sturgis-standard\">board announced a decision<\/a> on the case <i>Miller &amp; Anderson<\/i>, ruling that unions that want to represent bargaining units including direct employees as well as \u201cpermatemps,\u201d contract workers, and other indirect workers that share a \u201ccommunity of interest\u201d are no longer required to get permission from the parent company. <\/p>\n<p>The old standard, established by George W. Bush\u2019s NLRB in 2004, which required unions to gain such parent-employer consent, allowed companies to use staffing agencies and subcontractors as a barrier to organizing drives. Under the new ruling, a nurses union, for example, can now more readily expand bargaining units at a hospital to include registered nurses who are directly employed by the hospital, as well as nurses who work for staffing agencies hired by the hospital. <\/p>\n<p>In an increasingly fractured world of labor relations, it\u2019s hard to understate how big of a deal this is for easing union organizing efforts. And coming less than a year after its <i>Browning Ferris<\/i> ruling that established a <a href=\"http:\/\/prospect.org\/blog\/tapped\/how-nlrb-just-radically-changed-labor-relations\">bold new standard<\/a> for defining when parent companies are joint employers of subcontracted workers, the <i>Miller &amp; Anderson<\/i> decision is yet another important step that increases employer accountability to their workers by expanding the responsibilities of joint employers.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m stoked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has permatemps employed by outside employee leasing firms can organize by workplace, which means that business will no longer be able to sabotage unionization efforts by splitting their worker among outside firms: The National Labor Relations Board is reaffirming its view that labor law must now address the brave &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1023,978,985,1085],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-labor","category-politics","category-regulation","category-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}