18. Department of Labor and Related Agencies · Notable
Eliminate the NLRB contract bar rule
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“Eliminate the contract bar rule. NLRB should eliminate the contract bar rule so that employees with an interest in decertification have a reasonable chance to achieve their goal.”
What has happened
- Not started
The contract bar rule is intact. The National Labor Relations Board has opened no rulemaking and issued no decision eliminating or narrowing it; Federal Register full-text search for "contract bar" across the window returns one document, a Federal Labor Relations Authority rule about its own representation procedures, which is a different agency and a different statute. The Board's own rulemaking in the window went to joint employer status and to case-handling jurisdictions, not to election bars.
No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
- Negative search: chapter log, Cluster negative search — the NLRB adjudication asks.
- General Counsel memorandum GC 26-04 (2026-08-26) lists thirteen precedents the General Counsel has challenged or intends to challenge; the contract bar is not among them, though the related blocking-charge rule is mentioned in passing in her discussion of Valley Hospital.
- The Board did regain a quorum on 2026-01-07, so the absence is a choice rather than an incapacity for the second half of the window.
- Action
- eliminate
- Object
- NLRB contract bar rule
- ID
- 1659