NLRB Allows Union to Change Predecessor Employer's Bargaining Unit to Preserve Representation Status After Acquisition | Practical Law

NLRB Allows Union to Change Predecessor Employer's Bargaining Unit to Preserve Representation Status After Acquisition | Practical Law

In Specialty Hospital of Washington-Hadley, LLC, the National Labor Review Board (NLRB) held that a successor employer violated the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) by failing to bargain with an incumbent union, even though the predecessor bargaining unit was inappropriate and the new unit proposed by the union after it disclaimed representing segments of the predecessor unit would also be inappropriate for the successor's acute health care facility.

NLRB Allows Union to Change Predecessor Employer's Bargaining Unit to Preserve Representation Status After Acquisition

by PLC Labor & Employment
Published on 13 Sep 2011 • USA (National/Federal)
In Specialty Hospital of Washington-Hadley, LLC, the National Labor Review Board (NLRB) held that a successor employer violated the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) by failing to bargain with an incumbent union, even though the predecessor bargaining unit was inappropriate and the new unit proposed by the union after it disclaimed representing segments of the predecessor unit would also be inappropriate for the successor's acute health care facility.