02 Sep 2015 Another Noel Canning Rubber Stamp – Obama NLRB Overturns 1962 Case and Holds that Dues Checkoff Duty Now Continues Beyond Contract Expiration
National Labor Relations Board | Keith BrodieIn WKYC-TV, Inc., 359 NLRB No. 30 (2012) the Obama NLRB overturned Bethlehem Steel, 136 NLRB 1500 (1962), that for more than 50 years stated the rule that when a collective bargaining agreement expired the employer’s obligation to follow the agreement’s dues checkoff provision ceased. The Supreme Court’s decision in NLRB v. Noel Canning, 134 S. Ct. 2550 (2014), however, meant that the decision in WKYC-TV could not stand because, at the time of its decision,…