According to the Times, the NLRB put Arizona and South Dakota on notice in a letter sent Friday, warning that it planned to sue the states because they passed amendments prohibiting unionization through "card check." The "card check" procedure allows a site to become unionized if labor leaders can collect signed cards from 50 percent of the employees, plus one. It denies workers access to a secret ballot, enabling for rapid unionization at the federal level.
With the Obama administration unable to enact a federal law on card check, it's seeking to undermine secret ballot elections through the regulatory route.
Separately, the NLRB last week launched a lawsuit against Boeing for building a non-union factory in South Carolina to service a backlog of orders, even though they had already built the new facility and hired 1,000 workers for it.
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