On Friday last week, the Labor Department sent a rule to the White House for final review that would require union intermediaries, such as state and local branches and trusts formed under a union’s name, to discloses their finances to the Office of Labor-Management Standards. This financial reporting would include strike funds, training funds, credit…
On July 26, 2019, the National Mediation Board (NMB) published the Final Rule that allows railroad and airline employees to decertify representation without having to utilize a “straw man.” RWP Labor participated in this process by testifying at the NMB hearing on the rule change and by submitting comments. Read the official NMB press release…
For years, the International Association of Machinists (IAM) has been trying to unionize Delta Airline’s flight attendants and baggage handlers without success, a failing they claim stems from anti-union tactics by Delta. After filing a complaint against the airline in May with the National Mediation Board (NMB), which handles labor relations with the airlines, IAM…
In another blow to United Auto Workers, employees at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga plant voted against unionization on June 7 with 833 (51.8%) voting against the union and 776 (48.2%) voting for unionization. Overall, 93% of eligible employees voted. While anti-union employees criticized the union for “the ongoing federal corruption probe of the union in Michigan and…
The following “Notice of Proposed Rulemaking” comes verbatim from the Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS), released May 30, 2019.The Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS) today published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to establish a Form T–1 to require annual reporting on financial information pertinent to “trusts in which a labor organization is interested” (“section…
The Office of Management and Budget’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs released the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) rulemaking priorities today. The release, included in the twice-yearly Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions (Long Term Actions/Short Term Actions), is based on a submission prepared at the direction of NLRB Chairman John F….
RWP Labor CEO Russ Brown testifies before the National Mediation Board on eliminating the Straw Man process required in railroad and airline decertifications. Brown works with and through a legal defense foundation to bring freedom of association to American independent employees. Learn more starting on page 22, http://www.nmb.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Meeting_PDFTran.pdf
After a recent election at Elon University in North Carolina, where 56% of voting faculty members selected the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) to represent them, Elon filed 6 objections to the election. The objections accused the union of posing as students to gain access to faculty conversations; promising ballots only to those who favored…
According to a recent Goldman Sachs report, wages have accelerated in recent months, with a cycle-high pace of 3.4%. The Indeed Hiring Lab has also stated that “In January 2019, wages grew by 3.2% year-over-year, up from the general 2.6-2.8% range wage growth had been hovering from mid-2016 to mid-2018.” Both reports point to lower wage…
U.S. Rep. Lloyd Smucker (R-Pa.) has introduced two new bills to develop the country’s workforce, the USA Workforce Tax Credit Act and the Workforce for an Expanding Economy Act, which are aimed at filling the country’s 6.6 million available jobs. The USA Workforce Tax Credit Act would provide a tax credit of up to $2 billion to encourage apprenticeships, education,…
