Hunton Employment & Labor Perspectives

The United States District Court for the Western District of Texas has just denied one of the employer community’s challenges to the NLRB’s ambush election rules.  As covered previously, the Board’s new election rules, which went into effect on April 14, 2015, shorten the potential timeline for elections to be held 11 to 12 days after a union representation petition has been filed.  Several business groups have challenged the validity of the ambush rules in the federal courts.