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Last Friday, attorneys for the National Labor Relations Board’s general counsel, Jennifer Abruzzo, filed a motion asking the board to overrule an unfair labor practice case from 1970 called Ex-Cell-O Corp. The goal? Create a penalty for employers who stall the collective bargaining process, so they have to pay employees the wages they presumably would’ve collected—but lost out on—because of the delay.
