With the stroke of a pen, the National Labor Relations Board in October 2006 changed decades of labor law and practice by ruling that as many as 8 million workers were outside the protections of a union because they were now potentially "supervisors" under the National Labor Relations Act.  It is the prerogative of Congress, which explicitly specified in the Taft-Hartley Act legislation and hearings more than 60 years ago what a true supervisor is, to make sure that its legislative intent is not muddied by the NLRB's so-called Oakwood rulings.  (For more on the Oakwood decision and background on Kentucky River, go to UAN's Kentucky River Clearinghouse.)

UAN is working with Congress members to introduced a legislative fix to the Oakwood rulings.  The fix would correct any confusion over who is a supervisor under the NLRA that has resulted since these rulings.

Read an issue brief on this important legislation.

See if your legislator is a cosponsor of this legislation.