Word: labored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...NLRB was established in 1935--an era of landmark labor legislation--to act as the national mediator in worker disputes. The board is intended to act as a non-partisan lawyer, judge and arbiter in any legal dispute between labor and management, although the current board is recognized by labor experts as a politically conservative body...
...However, labor experts say that during his eight years as chief executive, President Reagan has been able to completely reconstruct the Board with his appointees. They describe its current incarnation as conservative...
...large, labor has wanted to avoid the board at all costs recently," says Anne Nelson, a professor at Cornell University's School of Industrial Labor Relations. "There is usually too much delay, which is bad for unions, and the decisions they make don't favor labor...
...past years, the board was more favorable disposed to labor's side, the labor expert said, and would act more quickly when making its decisions...
Although the NLRB is supposed to be a non-political body, labor expensive attribute the overturned decision, which blocked an election and diluted the union's base support, to the Reagan administration's NLRB appointees...