Section 61 Voting Rights During a Strike

• Library: Employer-Employee Law 2008

An employee engaged in strike activity is eligible to vote in NLRB elections if the employee is still an “employee” under the NLRA, which states that an individual “whose work has ceased as
a consequence of . . . any current labor dispute or because of any unfair labor practice” is still an employee as long as the employee “has not obtained any other regular and substantially equivalent employment.” 29 U.S.C. § 152(3). Economic strikers, on the other hand, retain their...