Rejigged NLRB likely to target Cemex rule, used by Teamsters to organize

A tool the Teamsters and other unions have been attempting to use in their organizing efforts is likely to be under renewed pressure from the Trump administration, now that the National Labor Relations Board has a clear Republican majority and a quorum. The tool is the Cemex precedent from the Biden administration. As the Benesch law firm wrote in a commentary about a recent memorandum written by Crystal Stowe Carey, the NLRB’s new General Counsel, the Cemex precedent came from an NLRB decision that “when a union requests recognition on the basis that a majority of employees in a bargaining unit have designated the union as their representative, an employer must recognize and bargain with the union or promptly file a petition for an election.” That petition is known as an RM petition. Card check has been a preferred strategy Getting a work force organized through that process is known as card check.