NLRB Chairman Pearce plans a challenging future for employers

January 30, 2012

It is no surprise that the now-at-full-strength Obama NLRB will attempt to implement the most shamelessly pro-union agenda since the Labor Relations Reform Act crashed and burned in 1977.

This Board, as announced by Chairman Pearce on Thursday, January 26, 2012, will implement the remaining portions of the Draconian rules it tabled last month. This board will soon seek to impose rules such as:

• Forcing employers to provide their employees’ names, addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses to unions engaged in organizing them.
• Shortening the already shrinking time from the date when a union election is set and when it will be conducted to a point where the employer cannot prepare a factual response to the union’s propaganda. Read More...

	Begin Assessment: Corporate General	YES	NO
	1. Our company has conducted an Employee Opinion Survey during the last 12 months.
	2. We have had a staff reduction (layoff) during the past 12 months.
	3. We have frozen salaries across the board or for select groups during the past 6 months.

	Begin Assessment: Hospital General	YES	NO
	1. Our hospital has conducted an Employee Opinion Survey during the last 12 months.
	2. We have had a staff reduction (layoff) during the past 12 months.
	3. We have frozen salaries across the board or for select groups during the past 6 months.

	Begin Assessment: Nurses	YES	NO
	1. Nurses have input into decisions about nurse/patient ratios.
	2. Our hospital has conducted an opinion survey for nurses during the last 12 months.
	3. We have had a staff reduction (layoff) during the last 12 months.