NLRB Extends Right to Unionize to Group of Intermittent Employees
Jack Lambremont | Littler Mendelson
December 20, 2010
The NLRB recently issued its decision in Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Inc., 356 NLRB No. 28 2010 pdf, further underscoring the current majority’s view that the right to organize should extend as broadly as possible. In Kansas City Repertory Theatre, the Board affirmed the decision of the Regional Director and determined that a group of musicians hired to perform in a single musical production constituted an appropriate unit for collective bargaining. The majority Members Becker and Pearce reached its conclusion notwithstanding the fact that the employer seldom staged performances requiring live musicians and very few of the musicians in question had ever performed in more than one production for the employer.
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