Last month, the Sixth Circuit in Kindred Nursing Centers East, LLC v. NLRB enforced the National Labor Relations Board’s 2011 Specialty Healthcare II decision in which the Board adopted a controversial test opening the door for unions to organize “micro” bargaining units of employees despite employer evidence that additional employees share a community of interest with those employees and therefore should be added to the unit.
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