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Howard Sokol is a Partner and Katherine Healy Marques an Associate in our New York office.

NLRB Limits Construction Industry Employers' Contract Expiration Withdrawal Rights from Multi-Employer Associations

The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA or Act) allows employers, including those in the construction industry, to join together to bargain with a union. This is called "multi-employer bargaining." But there are specific rules and requirements that an employer must follow in order to remove itself from multi-employer bargaining and avoid being bound by the next collective bargaining agreement negotiated by the multi-employer group. Failure to follow these rules means that an employer will continue to be bound by the contract resulting from multi-employer bargaining — whether it wants to or not.