The House subcommittee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions will hold a hearing on Thursday, May 26 at 10AM on the impact of union corporate campaigns and the NLRB on job creation. The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building and will be livecast. From the Subcommittee’s release:
In recent years, unions have increasingly utilized corporate campaigns to disrupt the business routine of a targeted employer. Designed to place pressure on employers to meet union demands, corporate campaigns can include filing complaints with government agencies and orchestrating negative publicity campaigns aimed at undermining an employer’s reputation with their workers and local community. While only 200 corporate campaigns were identified between 1974 and 1999, new corporate campaigns were estimated to have started every week in 2005. Many of the tactics used in a corporate campaign are governed by the National Labor Relations Act. Recent holdings and memoranda issued by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) have helped expand the use of these union tactics.
Thursday’s hearing will give members an opportunity to examine the growing prevalence of corporate campaigns, review recent actions by the NLRB that have may encouraged this increase, and consider the effects these developments have on the workforce and job creation.
