This month the National Labor Relations Board recently provided a definition of what a supervisor is that would classify millions of more workers as being a member of management and thus not eligible for collective bargaining. Unions are probably going to appeal the ruling in a circuit court.
As the way of doing business has changed, and workers being empowered more, it has resulted in a situation that existing laws can no longer address.
Current legislation, put into force in 1947, defines management or a supervisor as an individual that can "hire, transfer, assign ... or responsibly to direct" other employees. In the existing workforce, this 
goes way beyond officially "titled" people.
Former NLRB member and lawyer Sarah Fox said, "Serious consideration ought to be given to amending the statute, it's all about pushing authority down to frontline workers,"
The increasing authority in workers is already here; it's been here for years. For unions to fight this reality doesn't make any sense at all. This is part of their problem in diminishing numbers.
For the sake of businesses, it would be good for new legal guidelines to be instituted so that there can be absolute clarity in who is a supervisor and who isn't. To define it based upon a world that no longer exists does nothing to help anyone solve the existing workplace realities.
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