Stop trying to make micro-unions a thing, Big Labor

Published May 29, 2017 10:00pm ET



It’s no secret that Big Labor is constantly looking for ways to boost their membership and wield their influence, and over the last eight years, the Obama administration gave them various tools to do so. President Obama’s National Labor Relations Board, in particular, went out of its way to make it easier for labor to organize workers, issuing several decisions that upended decades of bipartisan labor law and fundamentally altered the state of the workplace.

In fact, a report released late last year by the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace determined that the Obama NLRB was by far the most partisan board in history, and that taken cumulatively, it upended 4,559 years of legal precedent.

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