The National Labor Relations Board’s top attorney has re-emphasized the agency’s position that agreements to settle unfair labor practice claims between workers, employers, and unions should primarily serve public labor rights and not the private rights of involved parties.
NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo said in a memo Tuesday that the agency’s officials should “vigorously object” to any settlement agreements that violate federal labor law, even if those terms are agreed to by the charging parties.
The memo comes after the board ditched unilateral consent orders in an August decision.
Consent orders provided a way for an employer charged …
