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Breaking: Battista Now Busting Unions For Profit | Breaking: Battista Now Busting Unions For Profit |
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| Written by Erin Johansson | |
| May 05, 2008 | |
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For years I've been writing that Robert Battista, former chair of the National Labor Relations Board, has been doing the bidding of anti-union employers by dismantling protections for workers under the law. Apparently, he's now going to be doing the bidding of anti-union employers and making a lot more money at notorious unionbusting firm Littler Mendelson (see a sample of their unionbusting strategies: Littler Mendelson’s Dos & Don’ts). Battista asked Bush to withdraw his nomination as Labor Board chair, which was going nowhere, and joined the firm that John Logan of the London School of Economics called one of the "nation’s first law firms to conduct aggressive union avoidance campaigns." Now Battista can make money telling employers how to exploit the law he helped to weaken in order to prevent their workers from organizing. |
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The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is a federal agency responsible for protecting workers' rights to form unions and promoting collective bargaining.
Erin Johansson writes our Eye on the NLRB blog. Erin has worked as a Senior Research Associate at American Rights at Work since 2004 and is the author of some of our reports.
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