Southern Bakeries, LLC v. National Labor Relations Board

By its own terms, the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”) is designed to protect workers, not unions. See 29 U.S.C. § 157; see also, e.g., Lechmere, Inc. v. NLRB, 502 U.S. 527, 532, 112 S.Ct. 841, 117 L.Ed.2d 79 (1992) (“[T]he NLRA confers rights only on employees, not on unions or their nonemployee organizers.”). Notwithstanding this clear statutory mandate, the Board’s decision protects a union at the expense of employees. It does so by trumpeting several alleged unfair labor practices (“ULPs”), the majority of which are unsupported by substantial evidence. Because I believe that “[t]he…