The Bush National Labor Relations Board strikes another blow against workers' rights: The right of an employee to have a representative present at an investigatory meeting that the employee reasonably believes might result in discipline covers unionized workplaces only, the National Labor Relations Board has ruled. The board ruled that employees who work in a nonunionized workplace are not entitled to have a coworker accompany them to an investigatory interview with their employer. The board overruled a 2000 decision, which had extended to unrepresented employees a right to have a coworker present during such interviews. These rights are called Weingarten rights, after the U.S. Supreme Court case where employees represented by a union won the right to have a representative accompany them to a disciplinary interview. (NLRB v. J. Weingarten, Inc., 420 U.S. 251 (1975)). The people who defend decisions like this are, of course, the same ones who take potshots at the labor movement claiming it's a protection scheme only interested in helping its members.