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On June 17, 2010, the Supreme Court ruled in New Process Steel, L. P. v. NLRB that the two-member Board had no authority to issue decisions, invalidating all rulings made by Liebman and Schaumber. [113] On June 22, 2010, a voice vote in the Senate confirmed Pearce to a full term, allowing him to serve until August 27, 2013. The same day, the ...
The Board's exclusive representation doctrine was "a major landmark in American labor history". [22] The doctrine was later enacted into law as part of the NLRA, and the NLRB continues to apply it today. The Board's decision in Denver Tramway laid the basis as well for the NLRB's concept of mature collective bargaining relations. Under this ...
Wilma B. Liebman (born 1950) is an American lawyer and civil servant who is best known for serving as a member of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). She was designated chair of the board by President Barack Obama on January 20, 2009, becoming only the second woman to lead the NLRB.
The NLRB generally has three members from the president's party and two from the opposing party. Because their terms are staggered, control of the agency typically does not change hands for a year ...
The independent NLRB has a bipartisan five-member board in Washington that reviews decisions handed down by administrative law judges. It also has a prosecutorial arm led by a general counsel ...
Between January 2008 and June 2010, according to then-Solicitor General Elena Kagan, the two-member Board of Liebman and Schaumber issued nearly 600 decisions.New Process Steel, L.P. v. NLRB, 560 U.S. 674, 678 (2010). During that time, they informally agreed to hear only noncontroversial cases until a third member was confirmed. [15]
The company’s attorneys argued in the lawsuit that the NLRB board members who authorized the agency’s complaint later “acted as judges” by denying a review of Amazon's objections, which ...
Lauren McFerran is an American lawyer and government official who served as a member and chairman of the National Labor Relations Board.Prior to serving on the board, she worked as a law clerk, in private practice, and as a labor lawyer for the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP Committee).