Word: nlrb
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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...
...NLRB's national board has five members, appointed by the president, who serve in staggered terms of five years each. In order to completely reconstruct the NLRB a president must hold office for two terms, so there is usually a political balance on the Board...
...NLRB ruled for the University, but the union appealed the decision. In 1976 the national Board agreed to review its regional decision, and in 1977 they ruled that the union could hold an election in the Medical Area...
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...
Because the national board is a court of appeals, however, few labor disputes reach the national level. While the regional offices of the NLRB are expected to adhere to the precedents of the national board, they "don't tend to have an image of leaning one way or the other," according to Professor David Kuechle, a labor expert at the Graduate School of Education...