Labor Related Articles
Heidelberg Materials
Case Number: 03-RC-363553 Date Filed: 04/11/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 4 Location: Johnstown, NY Region Assigned: Region 03, Buffalo, New York Unit Sought: Included: Heavy Equipment Operators, Plant Operators, ground persons, maintenance workers. Excluded: Administrative, Management, over the road trucks International Union of Operating Engineers Local 158, district 106
Appalachian Power Company
Case Number: 10-RC-363543 Date Filed: 04/11/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 14 Location: Roanoke, VA Region Assigned: Region 10, Atlanta, Georgia Unit Sought: Included: All full-time and regular part-time Customer Design Technicians employed by the company in the Roanoke District on the property of Appalachian Power Company in the state of Virginia. Excluded: All other employees, office clerical employees, confidential employees, professional employees, managerial employees, guards and supervisors as defined in the Act. Local Union 978, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, AFL-CIO
Simmons University
Case Number: 01-RC-363568 Date Filed: 04/11/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 512 Location: Boston, MA Region Assigned: Region 01, Boston, Massachusetts Unit Sought: Included: All adjunct faculty, adjunct faculty in the role of section instructor, and course liaisons employed by Simmons University at its Massachusetts campuses to teach at least one credit bearing course (including online, hybrid and blended courses) in a degree-granting program. Excluded: Part-time and full-time lecturers, tenured and non-tenured professors, deans, chairs, provosts, and confidential employees, managers, guard and supervisors as defined in the Act. Service Employees International Union Local 509
Thompson Chicago Hotel d/b/a Oxford Hotels and Resorts, LLC
Case Number: 13-RC-363589 Date Filed: 04/11/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 13 Location: Chicago, IL Region Assigned: Region 13, Chicago, Illinois Unit Sought: Included: All regular full-time and part-time front desk employees, which include the classifications of front desk agent, front desk supervisor, night auditor front desk agent, guest services agent, night auditor supervisor, bellman, and doorman, who are not currently represented by the Petitioner and are employed by the Employer at its facility located at Thompson Chicago Hotel, 21 E Bellevue Pl, Chicago, IL 60611. Petitioner petitions for a self-determination election allowing employees to decide whether they want to be included in an existing unit of housekeeping department employees, including houseman, housekeeper, and housekeeping supervisor employees employed by the Employer at Thompson Chicago Hotel, 21 E Bellevue Pl, Chicago, IL 60611. Excluded: All other employees not employed in the classifications identified as “Included” in the unit, casual employees, office clerical employees, guards, professional employees, and supervisors, as defined by the Act. UNITE HERE LOCAL 1
Thompson Chicago Hotel d/b/a Oxford Hotels and Resorts, LLC
Case Number: 13-RC-363587 Date Filed: 04/11/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 9 Location: Chicago, IL Region Assigned: Region 13, Chicago, Illinois Unit Sought: Included: All regular full-time and part-time employees in the classifications of In-Room Dining (IRD), Minibar, and Cafeteria attendants, who are not currently represented by the Petitioner and are employed by the Employer at its facility located at Thompson Chicago Hotel, 21 E Bellevue Pl, Chicago, IL 60611. Petitioner petitions for a self-determination election allowing employees to decide whether they want to be included in an existing unit of banquet department employees, including banquet captains, banquet servers, and banquet set up employees employed by the Employer at Thompson Chicago Hotel, 21 E Bellevue Pl, Chicago, IL 60611. Excluded: All other employees not employed in the classifications identified as “Included” in the unit, casual employees, office clerical employees, guards, professional employees, and supervisors, as defined by the Act. UNITE HERE LOCAL 1
Norwood Hills Country Club
Case Number: 14-RD-363565 Date Filed: 04/11/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 30 Location: Jennings, MO Region Assigned: Region 14, Saint Louis, Missouri Unit Sought: Included: All full-time and regular part-time servers, Bartenders, Kitchen/bus/utility employees, cooks, pantry employees, and expeditors/runners employed by the Employer at its facility located at 1 Norwood Hills Country Club Dr., St. Louis, Missouri. Excluded: All office clerical employees, professional employees, guards and supervisors as defined in the Act. Unite Here Local #74 AFL-CIO
Heidelberg Materials
Case Number: 03-RC-363572 Date Filed: 04/11/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 6 Location: Ravena, NY Region Assigned: Region 03, Buffalo, New York Unit Sought: Included: Heavy Equipment Operators, Plant Operators,Grounds persons, maintenance workers Excluded: Administrative, Management, Over the road truck drivers International Union of Operating Engineers Local 158, district 106
Energy Transfer
Case Number: 16-RD-363548 Date Filed: 04/11/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 424 Location: Hearne, TX Region Assigned: Region 16, Fort Worth, Texas Unit Sought: Included: All drivers. Excluded: Supervisors and managers as defined in the Act. UNITED STEEL WORKERS UNION LOCAL 13-227
National Postal Mail Handlers Union Local 310 (United States Postal Service)
Case Number: 10-CB-363534 Date Filed: 04/11/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 1200 Location: Fairburn, GA Region Assigned: Region 10, Atlanta, Georgia
ZF Safety And Electronics
Case Number: 25-CA-363540 Date Filed: 04/11/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 175 Location: Lafayette, IN Region Assigned: Region 25, Indianapolis, Indiana
Emag- Ed Morse Automotive
Case Number: 12-CA-363567 Date Filed: 04/11/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 50 Location: Fort Lauderdale, FL Region Assigned: Region 12, Tampa, Florida
IAM 141 (No Employer)
Case Number: 19-CB-363573 Date Filed: 04/11/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 1 Location: Seattle, WA Region Assigned: Region 19, Seattle, Washington
WEHT/WTVW (Nexstar Media)
Case Number: 25-CA-363552 Date Filed: 04/11/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 25 Location: Henderson, KY Region Assigned: Region 25, Indianapolis, Indiana
United States Postal Service
Case Number: 14-CA-363560 Date Filed: 04/11/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 50 Location: Maplewood, MO Region Assigned: Region 14, Saint Louis, Missouri
ICS d/b/a Mauser Packaging Solutions
Case Number: 13-CA-363566 Date Filed: 04/11/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 45 Location: Chicago, IL Region Assigned: Region 13, Chicago, Illinois
Ryder Transportation Solutions, LLC
Case Number: 08-CA-363578 Date Filed: 04/11/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 50 Location: Westlake, OH Region Assigned: Region 08, Cleveland, Ohio
Securitas Security Services USA, INC.
Case Number: 01-CA-363574 Date Filed: 04/11/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 300 Location: Cambridge, MA Region Assigned: Region 01, Boston, Massachusetts
United States Postal Service
Case Number: 15-CA-363563 Date Filed: 04/11/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 70 Location: Gretna, LA Region Assigned: Region 15, New Orleans, Louisiana
Cascade Public Media
Case Number: 19-CA-363576 Date Filed: 04/11/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 23 Location: Seattle, WA Region Assigned: Region 19, Seattle, Washington
DS Services of America, Inc. d/b/a Hinckley Springs; and Primo Brands, Inc.
Case Number: 13-CA-363569 Date Filed: 04/11/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 47 Location: Chicago, IL Region Assigned: Region 13, Chicago, Illinois
Wright County Community Action Inc.
Case Number: 18-CA-363585 Date Filed: 04/11/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 85 Location: Maple Lake, MN Region Assigned: Region 18, Minneapolis, Minnesota
32BJ SEIU NEW ENGLAND DISTRICT 615 (Securitas Security Services, USA)
Case Number: 01-CB-363588 Date Filed: 04/11/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 25 Location: Cambridge, MA Region Assigned: Region 01, Boston, Massachusetts
United States Postal Service
Case Number: 25-CA-363570 Date Filed: 04/11/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 35 Location: Davenport, IA Region Assigned: Region 25, Indianapolis, Indiana
El Paso Mexican Grill
Case Number: 15-CA-363583 Date Filed: 04/11/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 40 Location: Gonzales, LA Region Assigned: Region 15, New Orleans, Louisiana
United States Postal Service
Case Number: 14-CA-363562 Date Filed: 04/11/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 50 Location: Maplewood, MO Region Assigned: Region 14, Saint Louis, Missouri
DG Foods
Case Number: 15-CA-363591 Date Filed: 04/11/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 75 Location: Bastrop, LA Region Assigned: Region 15, New Orleans, Louisiana
International Union of Painters and Allied Trades District Council 58
Case Number: 14-CB-363590 Date Filed: 04/11/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 10 Location: Godfrey, IL Region Assigned: Region 14, Saint Louis, Missouri
Wieland/Chase llc.
Case Number: 08-CA-363593 Date Filed: 04/11/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 300 Location: Holiday City, OH Region Assigned: Region 08, Cleveland, Ohio
RWDSU 110 (Quaker Oats)
Case Number: 18-CB-363592 Date Filed: 04/11/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 10 Location: Cedar Rapids, IA Region Assigned: Region 18, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Articles by the RWP Team
Watch Russ Brown testify for better conditions for Airline Ground Workers!
If you would like to see the testimony in its entirety, please find it here:
Hearing | Hearings | Committee Activity | The House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
If you would like to read Russ’ complete testimony, please find it here: Aviation Subcommittee of the House Committee on
Transportation and Infrastructure
“Oversight of Working Conditions for Airline Ground Workers”
Testimony of Russ Brown, CEO RWP Labor
January 15, 2020
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
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 an election against a union. Instead of trying to win, the Straw Man must then convince employees to vote “no representative” to decertify the union.
The National Mediation Board (NMB) has proposed a new rule change that will simplify this process and make the waiting period for union votes more consistent and employee friendly.
Read more about the rule change in my recent article, published in the Washington Examiner here.
Washington D.C., May 30, 2018 – The Center for Independent Employees (“CIE”) applauds the Flexjet/Flight Options pilots for voting to decertify the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Union. Today, in Washington D.C., the National Mediation Board formally concluded the Flexjet/Flight Options labor union election. This is the first time in the 80-year history of the Railway Labor Act (“RLA”) that pilots have chosen a direct relationship with their employer rather than have a labor union interfering as a third party.
