The United Steelworkers (USW) Union, through the joint efforts of its Organizing and Legal Departments, has won two landmark cases before the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), ensuring the ability of workers to more freely exercise their right to organize a labor union.

In Lamons Gasket Company, the USW successfully prevailed upon the NLRB to overrule its Bush-era case of Dana Corp. which, in contravention of 50 years of prior NLRB and court law, had made it more difficult to obtain voluntary recognition from an employer. In Lamons Gasket, the NLRB has now placed the law back in conformity with the original intent of Congress in passing the National Relations Labor Act (NLRA) to promote union organizing and collective bargaining by workers ... more