The National Labor Relations Board’s game-changing decision to ease union organizing will get a critical courtroom test next week at a federal appeals court in San Francisco.
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is set to hear oral argument Oct. 21 in Cemex Construction Materials Pacific LLC’s challenge to the NLRB’s ruling that created a framework designed to clean up representation elections and provide a path to unionization without a formal vote.
The case is crucial for the viability of the Cemex doctrine. Ninth Circuit disapproval could make NLRB bargaining orders issued under the doctrine impossible to ...