Here's something new: a court upholding a policy that business lobby groups say is unfairly pro-worker. The first of two legal challenges to the National Labor Relations Board's rule modernizing and streamlining union representation elections failed in court on Monday. The lawsuit, brought by the National Federation of Independent Business and Texas chapters of the Associated Builders and Contractors (sometimes called the ALEC of the construction industry), was rejected by Judge Robert Pitman of the U.S.