If National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Richard Griffin Jr. gets his way, it is going to be harder for companies to shed their unions, even if most employees don’t even want to be in one anymore.

In a memorandum from Griffin’s office released May 9, the NLRB GC asks regional offices to require that companies hold full-fledged elections to determine whether employees can withdraw from union representation. Failure to do so could get companies slapped with an unfair labor practices charge.

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