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Does the NLRB have any teeth? Can they impose fines? I’ve yet to see any of these rulings result in any meaningful changes.
by freediverx 4y ago
Does the NLRB have any teeth? Can they impose fines? I’ve yet to see any of these rulings result in any meaningful changes.
- washadjeffmad 4y agoAllowing the help to negotiate their compensation is punishment enough
- andreareina 4y agoNo it's not.
- harvey9 4y agoThe person you replied to used the phrase 'the help' rather than staff or workers. I take it to indicate sarcasm.
- washadjeffmad 4y agoYears ago, one of our VPs, an old colleague, used the phrase "fraternizing with the help" to signal leadership's motives for an unusual and specific reorg. Someone was concerned that management was being too influenced by the suggestions of labor, and that's just not how chain of command works.
- infamouscow 4y agoWhy would politicians bite the hand that feeds them?
- dmix 4y agoIt still happens if there's enough political capital at play. Florida just punished one of their state's biggest tax benefactors over a social policy. Whether the union question drives enough voters to care or a politician willing to stand up for the issue will be the central question.
- thesuitonym 4y agoRemember that fines for breaking the law are just factored into the cost of doing business.
- mshenfield 4y agoNo. Companies just have to re-hire fired employees and pay lost wages and benefits. IMO Starbucks should pay a large punitive fine that gets split between the fired workers and the NLRB.
- advisedwang 4y agoTheir orders have the same force as a court order, so there are penalties if you actively ignore an order. However the board is very limited in what they can order.
- debacle 4y agoThe NLRB takes much more action against unions than for them.