Labor Related Articles
Case Number: 16-RD-362319 Date Filed: 03/21/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 3 Location: Austin, TX Region Assigned: Region 16, Fort Worth, Texas Unit Sought: Included: All part-time and full-time electricians. Excluded: All office employees, guards, and supervisors as defined by the Act. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 520
Portland General Electric
Case Number: 19-RC-362369 Date Filed: 03/21/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 7 Location: Portland, OR Region Assigned: Region 19, Seattle, Washington Unit Sought: IBEW Local 125 has two bargaining units at Portland General Electric. BU-1 consists of workers at the electric facilities and BU-2 consists of workers at PGE’s gas plants. This Armour-Globe petition seeks to add Resource Schedulers, Associate Resource Schedulers, and Staff Resource Schedulers for Substation Operations at the Avery Service Center in Tualatin, Oregon to the BU-1 bargaining unit. Add-On Voting Group: Included: All full-time and part-time Resource Schedulers, Associate Resource Schedulers, and Staff Resource Schedulers for Substation Operations employed by the Employer working out of the Avery Service Center in Tualatin, Oregon. Excluded: All managers, confidential employees, and guards and supervisors as defined by the Act. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 125
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF STATE, COUTNY AND MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES, COUNCIL 93 (Spectrum Health Systems, Inc.)
Case Number: 01-CB-362333 Date Filed: 03/21/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 40 Location: Westborough, MA Region Assigned: Region 01, Boston, Massachusetts
National Postal Mail Handlers Union (United States Postal Service)
Case Number: 12-CB-362337 Date Filed: 03/21/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 100 Location: Miami, FL Region Assigned: Region 12, Tampa, Florida
Archer Daniels Midland
Case Number: 19-CA-362336 Date Filed: 03/21/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 50 Location: Spokane, WA Region Assigned: Region 19, Seattle, Washington
UFCW Local 3000 (Northwest Administrators)
Case Number: 19-CB-362339 Date Filed: 03/21/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 100 Location: Seattle, WA Region Assigned: Region 19, Seattle, Washington
United Steelworkers, Local 7-838 (Mueller Company)
Case Number: 25-CB-362341 Date Filed: 03/21/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 300 Location: Decatur, IL Region Assigned: Region 25, Indianapolis, Indiana
United States Postal Service
Case Number: 04-CA-362345 Date Filed: 03/21/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 700 Location: Philadelphia, PA Region Assigned: Region 04, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Acme
Case Number: 04-CA-362347 Date Filed: 03/21/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 75 Location: Doylestown, PA Region Assigned: Region 04, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
National Association of Letter Carriers, Branch 40 (United States Postal Service)
Case Number: 08-CB-362328 Date Filed: 03/21/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 45 Location: Richmond Heights, OH Region Assigned: Region 08, Cleveland, Ohio
United States Postal Service
Case Number: 19-CA-362335 Date Filed: 03/21/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 100 Location: Seattle, WA Region Assigned: Region 19, Seattle, Washington
Mid Willamette Valley Community Action Agency
Case Number: 19-CA-362348 Date Filed: 03/21/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 16 Location: Woodburn, OR Region Assigned: Region 19, Seattle, Washington
United States Postal Service
Case Number: 15-CA-362315 Date Filed: 03/21/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 50 Location: Lafayette, LA Region Assigned: Region 15, New Orleans, Louisiana
Mueller Company
Case Number: 25-CA-362349 Date Filed: 03/21/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 300 Location: Decatur, IL Region Assigned: Region 25, Indianapolis, Indiana
Russell Tobin and Morgan Stanley as joint employers
Case Number: 27-CA-362359 Date Filed: 03/21/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 10 Location: South Jordan, UT Region Assigned: Region 27, Denver, Colorado
United States Postal Service
Case Number: 13-CA-362357 Date Filed: 03/21/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 100 Location: Chicago, IL Region Assigned: Region 13, Chicago, Illinois
Columbus Metal Trades Council, AFL-CIO (TIYA Services, LLC)
Case Number: 10-CB-362364 Date Filed: 03/21/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 1 Location: Fort Benning, GA Region Assigned: Region 10, Atlanta, Georgia
Nazareth University
Case Number: 03-CA-362360 Date Filed: 03/21/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 650 Location: Nazareth College, NY Region Assigned: Region 03, Buffalo, New York
Advantage Electric
Case Number: 27-CA-362362 Date Filed: 03/21/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 9 Location: Boise, ID Region Assigned: Region 27, Denver, Colorado
Mail Handlers Union Local 306 (United States Postal Service)
Case Number: 13-CB-362358 Date Filed: 03/21/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 100 Location: Chicago, IL Region Assigned: Region 13, Chicago, Illinois
United States Postal Services
Case Number: 12-CA-362361 Date Filed: 03/21/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 200 Location: West Palm Beach, FL Region Assigned: Region 12, Tampa, Florida
APWU West Palm Beach Area Local 749 (United States Postal Service)
Case Number: 12-CB-362363 Date Filed: 03/21/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 2
American Postal Workers Union (United States Postal Service)
Case Number: 12-CB-362368 Date Filed: 03/21/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 100 Location: Gainesville, FL Region Assigned: Region 12, Tampa, Florida
Kaiser Permanente
Case Number: 20-CA-362366 Date Filed: 03/21/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 4300 Location: Honolulu, HI Region Assigned: Region 20, San Francisco, California
United States Postal Service
Case Number: 12-CA-362370 Date Filed: 03/21/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 600 Location: Tampa, FL Region Assigned: Region 12, Tampa, Florida
United States Postal Service
Case Number: 08-CA-362326 Date Filed: 03/21/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 45 Location: Richmond Heights, OH Region Assigned: Region 08, Cleveland, Ohio
International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local Union 991 (10 Roads Express, LLC)
Case Number: 15-CB-362371 Date Filed: 03/21/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 4 Location: Mobile, AL Region Assigned: Region 15, New Orleans, Louisiana
C&R Restaurant Group LP d/b/a Taco Bell
Case Number: 21-CA-362355 Date Filed: 03/21/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 30 Location: Alhambra, CA Region Assigned: Region 21, Los Angeles, California
Weyerhaeuser Company
Case Number: 19-CA-362372 Date Filed: 03/21/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 10 Location: Seattle, WA Region Assigned: Region 19, Seattle, Washington
Painters District Council #5 (No Employer)
Case Number: 19-CB-362377 Date Filed: 03/21/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 40 Location: Tukwila, WA Region Assigned: Region 19, Seattle, Washington
Wallenius Wilhelmsen Solutions/WWL Vehicle Services America, Inc.
Case Number: 19-CA-362356 Date Filed: 03/21/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 220 Location: Tacoma, WA Region Assigned: Region 19, Seattle, Washington
Apache Industrial Services
Case Number: 15-CA-362261 Date Filed: 03/20/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 250 Location: Gautier, MS Region Assigned: Region 15, New Orleans, Louisiana
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.
