Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit court ruled that President Obama exceeded his constitutional authority last year when he named three members of the NLRB while the Senate was on a break.
The court’s ruling casts doubt on hundreds of decisions the NLRB made in the past year, and Prime has said it will not comply with two rulings. One requires the collection of union dues even after a collective bargaining agreement has expired. The other compels employers to provide unions with certain materials during internal investigations, according to the report.
The hospital operator is assuming the position that at least those two, and perhaps all NLRB cases decided in the past year by those recess appointees are invalid, according to the report.
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