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….
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,…
Decertification of a union is nearly impossible for employees to achieve under the Railway Labor Act (RLA). An existing “Straw Man” procedure makes the process confusing and intimidating, requiring employees of a given class — pilots, baggage handlers, etc. — to run an RLA representative with at least 50 percent of employee signatures to force…
In 1947, the Taft-Hartley Act amended the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) to allow states to enact right-to-work statutes. 28 states have since adopted those laws (state-wide laws are pictured above in green; blue holds local right-to-work laws), and union membership has been declining since. In the 1950s, 35 percent of the workforce held union…
