Mealey's (January 30, 2023, 1:19 PM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A National Labor Relations Board ruling that a California nursing facility violated the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) when it refused to recognize and bargain with a union was enforced Jan. 27 by a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel, which rejected the employer’s arguments that the certified bargaining unit was inappropriate and that the NLRB general counsel lacked authority to prosecute the charge as the previous general counsel was improperly removed by President Joseph R. Biden Jr. shortly after taking office in 2021....