Sectoral Bargaining and Pandemics: Lessons from Uruguay
The U.S. meatpacking industry is providing some unfortunate lessons in how not to deal with a...
January 22nd 2021
The U.S. meatpacking industry is providing some unfortunate lessons in how not to deal with a...
As Sharon recently covered, in January the National Labor Relations Board’s General Counsel announced a proposal to overhaul the agency’s long-standing structure of local offices. Though some details remain sketchy, reports suggest that the idea is to consolidate the existing 26 regions into a smaller number of “districts.” Regional directors, now classified as Senior Executive Service personnel with broad authorities, would be demoted and required to funnel various decisions to a new layer of managers reporting directly to the General Counsel in Washington, D.C.