A group of airline and railroad unions filed a complaint in D.C. federal court this week against the National Mediation Board over their two-year ban against workers in those industries voting to join a union after decertifying a previous union. The Transportation-Trades Department of the AFL-CIO, the American Train Dispatchers Association, and the Brotherhood of…
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) will publish a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) in the Federal Register on September 23, 2019. The proposed rule would settle the recurring question regarding the definition of “employee” under Section 2(3) of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) to exempt from the NLRB’s jurisdiction undergraduate and graduate students…
Leif Olson, who resigned 18 days after starting his appointed position as senior policy advisor of the Wage and Hour Division for the Department of Labor, was reinstated Wednesday. His resignation on August 30 came four hours after Bloomberg reporter Ben Penn emailed the Department of Labor and White House about a Facebook post Olson…
Labor Day, which took place this past Monday, isn’t simply another holiday. It honors the value of work and the workers who make our country great. Patrick Pizella’s opinion piece in the Washington Examiner this week entitled “There is Always Dignity in Work” is a great read to remind us what we should strive to…
Recently, I contributed to a paper by the Competitive Enterprise Institute discussing the negative impacts of the proposed Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2019 (H.R. 2474), also known as the PRO Act. This act would overhaul United States labor relations law to facilitate labor union organizing without regard to the negative consequences on…
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled in a split-decision that employers may bar non-employees from leafletting on their premises, even if the non-employees work for on-site contractors. The decision, which was made on a case brought forth by the San Antonio Symphony, reversed an agency judge’s ruling that the Bexar County Performing Arts Center…
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…
