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Last week, an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) issued a report recommending that the Board uphold the election and certify the union. Although the report does not convince me that our initial doubts were unfounded, I recognize that a decision to file exceptions would almost certainly bring about months, or even a year or more, of added delay and uncertainty pending a final decision of the National Labor Relations Board. I do not believe that we should allow this delay, with all the burdens that would accompany it unless there is a substantial likelihood that the ALJ's recommendations will...
...weighing the possibility of reversal, I have consulted widely not only within my own staff but among individuals without prior connection with the election who are highly knowlegeable about labor relations and labor law. These discussions have led me to the following conclusions. Although the ALJ's opinion contains unwarranted and gratuitous comments about participants in the proceedings and can be disputed on other grounds as well, I do not believe that the odds of securing a reversal are substantial enough to outweigh the risks of imposing a long and fruitless delay that could frustrate the interests of many...
...choosing him in the year of The Eye of the Storm, his ninth novel, the panel also showed a sentiment in favor of the "old-fashioned" novel-that is, a carefully crafted fictional edifice with a full complement of realistic detail and psychological probing. His newest book certainly has alj, that, but it is a pallid creation that often makes the reader wish -respectfully but vehemently-that the storm would blow every bit of it away...
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