{"id":187,"date":"2026-04-08T11:35:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/transportation\/?p=187"},"modified":"2026-04-08T14:03:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T18:03:04","slug":"dismissed-nlrb-regional-director-finds-proposed-union-workers-at-shipping-company-responsible-for-direction-of-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/transportation\/2026\/04\/08\/dismissed-nlrb-regional-director-finds-proposed-union-workers-at-shipping-company-responsible-for-direction-of-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Dismissed: NLRB Regional Director Finds Proposed Union Workers at Shipping Company Responsible for Direction of Work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/elizabethmincer.html\">Elizabeth Mincer<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On March 31, 2026, Region 21\u2019s Regional Director dismissed an election petition for a proposed unit of workers at a shipping facility, finding that they were all supervisors.&nbsp;<em>See American President Lines, LLC<\/em>, 21-RC-337981 (Mar. 31, 2026). The decision offers a detailed example for transportation and logistics employers seeking to understand how the NLRB evaluates supervisory status under Section 2(11) of the NLRA, and it provides practical lessons on how to structure frontline supervisory roles to withstand legal scrutiny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the full article on <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/laborlaw\/2026\/04\/06\/region-finds-supervisory-status-for-workers-at-shipping-company\/\">Concerted Action \u2013 The Duane Morris Labor Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Elizabeth Mincer On March 31, 2026, Region 21\u2019s Regional Director dismissed an election petition for a proposed unit of workers at a shipping facility, finding that they were all supervisors.&nbsp;See American President Lines, LLC, 21-RC-337981 (Mar. 31, 2026). The decision offers a detailed example for transportation and logistics employers seeking to understand how the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/transportation\/2026\/04\/08\/dismissed-nlrb-regional-director-finds-proposed-union-workers-at-shipping-company-responsible-for-direction-of-work\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dismissed: NLRB Regional Director Finds Proposed Union Workers at Shipping Company Responsible for Direction of Work&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[20,22,145,83,144],"ppma_author":[51],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-elizabeth-mincer","tag-nlrb","tag-region-21","tag-shipping","tag-union"],"authors":[{"term_id":51,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/transportation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2020\/10\/dmlogo.jpg","author_category":"1","last_name":"Davies","first_name":"Thomas","job_title":"","user_url":"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com","description":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\">Visit the Duane Morris website.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}