Calling out the National Labor Relations Board as moving toward “serving as the litigation arm of the union” rather than enforcing federal labor law, a federal judge granted the NLRB’s broad subpoenas of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, but stayed their implementation so that UPMC can seek appellate review.

U.S. District Judge Arthur J. Schwab of the Western District of Pennsylvania, faced with the NLRB’s request to enforce three subpoenas that it had served on UPMC, expressed his misgivings about the scope of what the NLRB sought in the subpoenas, but acknowledged his court’s narrow discretion to weigh them.

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