NLRB Lawyer Backtracks on Answer to U.S. Supreme Court

By Greg Stohr, Bloomberg News

In an unusual letter to the U.S. Supreme Court, the National Labor Relations Board’s general counsel said he gave a series of inaccurate answers during a high-profile argument Monday on the rights of workers to file class-action lawsuits.

During the session , Richard Griffin seemed to undercut his argument that workers must be allowed to press group claims even if they signed agreements to take disputes individually to arbitration. Responding to Chief Justice John Roberts, Griffin said workers could be forced into an arbitration forum that barred group claims involving 50 or fewer people. The ...