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Fight in Ohio between SEIU and California Nurses revives old issue: when employers welcome unions at the NLRB.

By Herman Benson

An angry battle in Ohio between the Service Employees and the California Nurses Association calls attention to a proposed new regulation by the National Labor Relations Board that would make it easy for consenting employers to accept, or even welcome, unionization without disturbing their workers with a hostile,confrontational campaign... No need for the union to collect signatures on petitions... No drawn-out battle, no hard feelings provoked, no enthusiasms inspired...

In these parlous times, when unions fight to hold their own, when the need to organize the unorganized is so urgent, the new NLRB system seems like a union leader’s dream. Could anything be wrong?  Read more.