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The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) voted today to crush longstanding Federal labor laws protecting workers' right to join a union.  The NLRB ruled on three cases, collectively known as "Kentucky River", but it is their decision on Oakwood Healthcare, Inc which could have a devastating impact on workers’ right to join a union.  The board’s ruling essentially enables employers to make a supervisor out of any worker who has the authority to assign or direct another and uses independent judgment. They ruled that any worker can be classified as a supervisor if he or she spends as little as 10-15% of his or her time overseeing the work of others.  Under current Federal labor laws, supervisors are prohibited from forming unions.  The ruling could deny up to 8 million workers the right to choose union representation.