Card-check strategy on NLRB radar

Thursday, October 06, 2005
Alison Grant
Plain Dealer Reporter

The chairman of the National Labor Relations Board says his prime objective is reviewing Ohio and Michigan cases on card-check, labor's top strategy in recent years for adding members.

The NLRB agreed to hear the volatile issue in June 2004, but has not acted on it because the board is missing several members.

NLRB Chairman Robert Battista, appearing at a law seminar Wednesday in Cleveland, said card-check will be first on his agenda when President Bush nominates people to fill the vacancies. He predicted that will happen in late October or early November, though he said he has gotten no word on timing from the White House. The Senate has to approve the nominees.