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NLRB Imposes "Successor Bar" and Defines a "Reasonable Period" for Bargaining
Included among the three major decisions issued by the NLRB to mark the end of Chairman Wilma Liebman's term is one that will significantly affect the continuing majority status of incumbent unions in successorship situations. In UGL-UNICCO Service Co., 357 NLRB No. 76 (Aug. 26, 2011), the Board reinstated the "successor bar" doctrine, a Board-manufactured principle under which a union is conclusively presumed to retain its majority status when the employees whom it represents become employed by a new employer that is a successor.
