DC Circuit Sides With IBEW on ACS
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit rejected an appeal by Alaska Communications Systems of a National Labor Relations Board decision. Employees in Oregon sought to join the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, the union that represents employees…
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in Alaska. The union held a representation election among some of the Oregon-based employees. NLRB “certified a voting group that differed slightly from the petitioned-for unit, and that group voted to join the preexisting bargaining unit,” said Friday's D.C. Circuit decision by Judge Sri Srinivasan. “The Board permissibly adjusted the composition of the voting group and permissibly determined that the group shares a community of interest with the preexisting bargaining unit it voted to join.” The other judges were Karen LeCraft Henderson and Patricia Millett.