Mark Gaston Pearce

Former Chairman and Board Member, National Labor Relations Board. This is an archived account.

[Mark Gaston Pearce @NLRBPearce]

It has been my honor and privilege to have served as Chairman and Board Member to an agency created 83 years ago to help working people. I am proud of the work of the NLRB and I did my best to fulfill its mission. Be well, friends. Follow me here: @mark_mark1494.

[NLRB @NLRB_Board]

Today is the last day of Mark Gaston Pearce’s term serving as a Member and prior Chairman of the NLRB. Thank you @NLRBPearce for your dedication and service to our great nation and to our Agency.

[Mark Gaston Pearce @NLRBPearce]

Yesterday 8/5 marks the anniversary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1933 establishment the National Labor Board, which was later replaced with the National Labor Relations Board which enforces the principal private sector labor law of this country.

[Mark Gaston Pearce @NLRBPearce]

Happy 83rd anniversary Wagner Act!

[Mark Gaston Pearce @NLRBPearce]

Lest we forget.. July 5, ‘34, police attacked striking SAN Francisco Longshoremen, killing 2, wounding 32. Pressure from striking & unemployed workers, unions, African-American workers, tenant farmers, vets and others paved the way for the passage of the NLRA on July 5, 1935!

[Mark Gaston Pearce @NLRBPearce]

4th of July in labor history:
1950 - Two primary conventions of the U.N.s’ International Labor Organization came into force: Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organize.

[Mark Gaston Pearce @NLRBPearce]

Justice Kagan dissent #JANUSvsAFSCME The First Amendment was meant for better things. It was meant not to undermine but to protect democratic governance—including over the role of public-sector unions.

[Mark Gaston Pearce @NLRBPearce]

Justice Kagan dissent in #JANUSvsAFSCME "Speech is...a part of every human activity employment, health care, securities trading, you name it...majority’s road runs long... at every stop are black-robed rulers overriding citizens’ choices."

[Hassan Ali Kanu @hassankanu]

"It might sound like I'm siding with employers & big business but I'm not. I'm simply saying we...need to restore some balance at the NLRB," Ring says. Adds board has to take into account "the interests of business and creation of jobs."

[Hassan Ali Kanu @hassankanu]

Ring getting pushback about job creation line.

"It's a bit of a concern that the implication is that we should enforce the act less," NLRB employee asks.

A not-insignificant # of folks inside the agency say its an inappropriate policy consideration.

[Dave Jamieson @jamieson]

NEW: @Lowes is telling its managers they have to sign mandatory arbitration agreements with class-action waivers or they won't get their bonuses this year. This is the landscape ahead of us after last week's SCOTUS ruling. https://t.co/5KFaO3pug2

[Mark Gaston Pearce @NLRBPearce]

Murphy Oil – Justice Ginsburg : in 1992 only 2.1 percent of non-unionized companies imposed mandatory arbitration agreements on their employees, now, nearly 54 percent do so.

[Mark Gaston Pearce @NLRBPearce]

Murphy Oil - Ginsburg : decision is “egregiously wrong" Court now holds enforceable "these arm-twisted, take-it-or-leave-it contracts ... requiring employees to litigate wage and hours claims only one-by-one,” “Fed'l labor law doesn't countenance such isolation of employees.”

[Mark Gaston Pearce @NLRBPearce]

Murphy Oil – SCOTUS has spoken. Justice Gorsuch, writing for the majority, wrote. “….In the Federal Arbitration Act, Congress has instructed federal courts to enforce arbitration agreements according to their terms — including terms providing for individualized proceedings.”

[Hassan Ali Kanu @hassankanu]

SCOOP:Labor board member Pearce @NLRBPearce cleared of leak allegations by NLRB inspector general. The Democrat appointee had been accused of tipping the board's hand in a big, upcoming case during a reception in Puerto Rico.
https://t.co/w5CstbpArw

[Lauren McFerran @NLRBMcFerran]

The regulatory agenda is a Chairman initiative, not formal NLRB action. I'll approach any proposal w/ an open mind, but urge the majority to deliberate carefully, allow public input, and abandon the “decide first, ask questions later” approach from Miscimarra’s end-of-term.

[Mark Gaston Pearce @NLRBPearce]

Board majority “considering rulemaking” but @NLRBChairman says “Board majority…work[ing] to issue proposed rule ASAP” — certainly sounds like another objective is already set. #jointemployerrulemaking

[Mark Gaston Pearce @NLRBPearce]

“Uncertainty” over the joint-employer standard exists only in the minds of those seeking to reverse Browning Ferris. #jointemployerrulemaking

[Mark Gaston Pearce @NLRBPearce]

Browning Ferris issued after briefings from the parties and the public and is under judicial revie — no party has asked for rulemaking. #jointemployerrulemaking