Ogletree Deakins'
Traditional Labor Relations Practice Group is pleased to
announce the publication of
the winter 2018 issue of the Practical NLRB Advisor. In the
issue, we examine how the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is
moving forward after a slow start during the Trump
administration's first year in office—in which it took
nearly nine months to realize a short-lived Republican
majority.
With the end of former chairman Philip Miscimarra's term in
December, the Board membership was reduced to four who are evenly
split along political lines. While the White House has recently
announced the nomination of John F. Ring to fill the all-important
fifth Board seat, due to the current administration's
comparatively poor record on seating nominees, his confirmation
might still be far off. With an even-numbered and ideologically
divided Board, no one expects any significant upcoming changes in
the Board's decisional law. The recent past, however,
illustrates how
