( October 21, 2026, 8:22 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In the latest litigation in a more than eight-year-long bargaining dispute, the National Labor Relations Board and an employees’ union waived their rights to file responses to two petitions for writ of certiorari filed in the U.S. Supreme Court by a road construction company seeking review of how courts must interpret an agency rule created through adjudication and whether dismissed employee petitions to decertify a union can be shielded from judicial review....