President Obama will use recess appointments to name three new members of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the White House announced this  afternoon.

President Obama will use a recess appointment to name Richard Cordray head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Associated Press (AP) reports this morning. Cordray’s nomination has been blocked by Senate Republicans who want to gut the agency that was created by 2010’s Wall Street reform legislation.

Musicians in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Texas can play a happy tune following a Dec. 27 ruling by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) that says musicians in symphony orchestras are employees with the freedom to join unions—not independent contractors.

A new rule on the way union elections are conducted will take effect April 30, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) announced today. The rule will help alleviate the delays, inefficiencies, abuse of process and unnecessary litigation which plague the current system for workers who want to vote on whether to have a union. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka says it’s “good news”that the NLRB has taken

After months of contention that drew the attention of presidential candidates and members of Congress, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) today announced that the Machinists (IAM) District 751 dropped its charge against the Boeing Co. after negotiating agreeable terms with the company.

This is a cross-post from Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 1245.

Five Calpine employees delivered authorization cards to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in San Francisco on Dec. 1, the latest step in a campaign to gain union representation for workers at Calpine’s power plants in Northern California.

If you’ve been following the race for the Republican presidential nomination—and who doesn’t love a circus—you’ve probably noticed that Mitt Romney is being portrayed as somewhat of a moderate in this collection of extreme conservatives. Not when it comes to workers’ rights.

Great news: Today, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) voted 2-to-1 to draft a rule that will address the “delays and unnecessary litigation in the pre-election process” that make it all too easy for employers to use delaying and intimidation tactics against workers who want to vote for a union.

In last night’s 235-188 vote to block some modest proposed new rules from the National Labor Relations Board to reduce unnecessary litigation and modernize the way union elections are conducted, eight Republicans crossed party lines and voted against the attack on workers’ rights. Six Democrats voted for the bill.

The House this evening passed (235-188) legislation (H.R. 3094) that gives employers new tools to combat and delay elections by workers who try to form unions. Dubbed the Election Prevention Act by Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.), the bill is the congressional Republican effort to block some modest rule changes proposed earlier this year by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to reduce unnecessary litigation and modernize the way union elections are conducted.