If the United States does not have a functioning National Labor Relations Board, that goes all the way down to the site, the small-factory level, and will prevent probably most organizing efforts from succeeding in the United States because the employer side will stop the election, put in a complaint, the complaint cannot be decisively resolved, and things will not move ahead.
Tim Kaine: “If the United States does not have a functioning National Labor Relations Board, that goes all the way down to the site…”
On the recordJune 5, 2013
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Kaine discusses the impact of a non-functioning NLRB on labor organizing efforts.
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