Legal Alert - NLRB Bargaining Orders and Arizona Law
09/17/2012
NLRB Bargaining Orders and Arizona Law
by Gerard Morales
The Gissel Doctrine
It is well-established, under federal labor law, that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) may order an employer to recognize and bargain with a labor union, as the exclusive representative of a group of the employer’s employees, despite the fact that the union lost the secret ballot election among said employees. Such orders, commonly referred to as Gissel Orders, are issued by the NLRB ….