Calhoun, GA (May 4, 2026) – Brian Wilson, a truck driver for waste hauling company Republic Services, is asking a federal labor board to overturn a policy that is blocking him and his coworkers from exercising their right to vote out Teamsters Local 728 union officials they oppose. Wilson is defending a petition that he submitted on behalf of his coworkers last month, which demanded the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) administer an election to remove Teamsters union bosses from power at their workplace. Wilson is receiving free legal aid from National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys in his legal effort.
The NLRB is the federal agency responsible for enforcing federal labor law, a task that includes administering elections to install (or “certify”) and remove (or “decertify”) unions. Wilson’s petition, which he submitted on April 2, showed that the majority of his colleagues wanted to have a vote to remove the Teamsters.
However, Teamsters union officials immediately blocked the vote by arguing that the so-called “contract bar” – an NLRB-invented policy that appears nowhere in the text of federal labor law – prevented Wilson and his colleagues from voting. The contract bar prevents workers from exercising their right to vote out an unwanted union for up to three years after union bosses and management finalize a...
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