LRI Vice President Russ Brown testified today on proposed changes to the NLRB election process. Brown raised a number of issues not previously addressed including concerns about the potential for fraud and abuse with electronic signatures and the efficiency of the current election process when compared to the Board’s torturous slow processing of ULPs. “Increasing efficiency is a worthy goal. But these changes seem explicitly designed for the sole purpose of reducing the time to election. Pushing most unit decisions until after the election disenfranchises voters and is counter to the purposes of the Act. Any rule change needs to be about what is best for workers, not what is best for unions. The proposed rule is counter to the purposes of the Act and impairs the credibility of the Board at a time when it is seen increasingly as a politicized agency determined to help labor unions. The bottom line is that the Board should not implement the dramatic changes proposed.”
