Labor Related Articles
The Research Foundation for the State University of New York
Case Number: 03-RC-363813 Date Filed: 04/16/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 250 Location: Vestal, NY Region Assigned: Region 03, Buffalo, New York Unit Sought: Employees Included All full-time and regular part-time Research Assistants aka Research Project Assistants (“RPAs”) employed by the Employer at State University of New York at Binghamton. Employees Excluded All other employees, guards, clerical employees, confidential employees and supervisors as defined by the Act. Communications Workers of America
Garden State Equality Education Fund, Inc.
Case Number: 22-RC-363878 Date Filed: 04/16/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 10 Location: Asbury Park, NJ Region Assigned: Region 22, Newark, New Jersey Unit Sought: INCLUDED: All full-time and regular part-time employees employed by Garden State Equality Education Fund, Inc. at 308 Main St., Asbury Park, NJ, 07712. EXCLUDED: Guards, supervisors and all other employees. Workers United New York New Jersey Regional Joint Board
Recreational Equipment Inc (REI) Berkeley 12
Case Number: 32-RD-363883 Date Filed: 04/16/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 76 Location: Berkeley, CA Region Assigned: Region 32, Oakland, California Unit Sought: Included: Berkeley REl employees Excluded: Berkeley REI Management United Food and Commerical Workers Union Local 5
Town and Country Foods
Case Number: 19-RM-363894 Date Filed: 04/16/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 7 Location: Helena, MT Region Assigned: Region 19, Seattle, Washington Unit Sought: Included: Bakers, Donut Fryers, Bakery Sales, and Decorators. Excluded: All other employees. Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco And Grain Millers Local 466
Columbus Metal Trades Council
Case Number: 10-CB-363858 Date Filed: 04/16/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 1 Location: Fort Benning, GA Region Assigned: Region 10, Atlanta, Georgia
Defenders Association of Philadelphia
Case Number: 04-CA-363863 Date Filed: 04/16/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 230 Location: Philadelphia, PA Region Assigned: Region 04, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
SCR Medical Transportation, LLC
Case Number: 13-CA-363871 Date Filed: 04/16/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 800 Location: Chicago, IL Region Assigned: Region 13, Chicago, Illinois
UFCW Local 1996 (Kaiser Permanente Georgia Region)
Case Number: 10-CB-363822 Date Filed: 04/16/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 100 Location: Suwanee, GA Region Assigned: Region 10, Atlanta, Georgia
Standard Parking Plus
Case Number: 03-CA-363877 Date Filed: 04/16/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 50 Location: Buffalo, NY Region Assigned: Region 03, Buffalo, New York
Hyatt Place Austin Airport
Case Number: 16-CA-363860 Date Filed: 04/16/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 40 Location: Austin, TX Region Assigned: Region 16, Fort Worth, Texas
Vitas Healthcare
Case Number: 12-CA-363880 Date Filed: 04/16/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 500 Location: Miramar, FL Region Assigned: Region 12, Tampa, Florida
Gilead Community Services
Case Number: 01-CA-363882 Date Filed: 04/16/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 100 Location: Middletown, CT Region Assigned: Region 01, Boston, Massachusetts
United States Postal Service
Case Number: 16-CA-363885 Date Filed: 04/16/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 50 Location: Houston, TX Region Assigned: Region 16, Fort Worth, Texas
Smurfit Westrock
Case Number: 19-CA-363892 Date Filed: 04/16/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 802 Location: Longview, WA Region Assigned: Region 19, Seattle, Washington
Vigor Industrial LLC
Case Number: 19-CA-363893 Date Filed: 04/16/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 80 Location: Portland, OR Region Assigned: Region 19, Seattle, Washington
Freeman Expositions LLC
Case Number: 20-CA-363896 Date Filed: 04/16/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 300 Location: Brisbane, CA Region Assigned: Region 20, San Francisco, California
The Grand Opera House, Inc.
Case Number: 04-RC-363785 Date Filed: 04/15/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 17 Location: Wilmington, DE Region Assigned: Region 04, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Unit Sought: INCLUDED: All full-time, regular part-time, and on-call Production Department employees. EXCLUDED: All other employees, guards, statutory supervisors as defined by the Act. I.A.T.S.E. Local 8 a/w International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Local 8
SBM Management Services, LP
Case Number: 15-RC-363782 Date Filed: 04/15/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 22 Location: Stanton, TN Region Assigned: Region 15, New Orleans, Louisiana Unit Sought: Included: All custodians working at the TN Electric Vehicle Center or Blue Oval SK sites Excluded: All other employees, including supervisors defined in the Act Laborers International Union of North America, Local 386
unWired Broadband, Inc.
Case Number: 32-RC-363784 Date Filed: 04/15/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 39 Location: Fresno, CA Region Assigned: Region 32, Oakland, California Unit Sought: Included: All full-time Installation Technicians, Tower Climbers, Lead Tower Climbers, Bucket Truck Technicians, Lead Bucket Truck Technicians, Aerial Construction Technicians, Safety Technicians, Service Technicians, Field Technicians, Field Construction Assistants and Fiber Construction Assistant. Excluded: All other employees, supervisors, and guards as defined by the Act. Communications Workers of America
Swedish Health Services
Case Number: 19-RC-363753 Date Filed: 04/15/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 2 Location: Seattle, WA Region Assigned: Region 19, Seattle, Washington Unit Sought: Included: All Non-RN Professional Employees. Excluded: All managerial employees, supervisory employees, guards, physicians, business office clerical employees, RNs, technical, service and confidential employees. SEIU Healthcare 1199NW
Swedish Health Services
Case Number: 19-RC-363767 Date Filed: 04/15/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 3 Location: Seattle, WA Region Assigned: Region 19, Seattle, Washington Unit Sought: Included: All Registered Nurses. Excluded: All managerial employees, supervisory employees, guards, physicians, business office clerical employees, other professional employees, technical, service and confidential employees. SEIU Healthcare 1199NW
Swedish Health Services
Case Number: 19-RC-363797 Date Filed: 04/15/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 1 Location: Seattle, WA Region Assigned: Region 19, Seattle, Washington Unit Sought: Included: All Technical Employees. Excluded: All managerial employees, supervisory employees, guards, physicians, business office clerical employees, RNs, professional, service and confidential employees. SEIU Healthcare 1199NW
Swedish Health Services
Case Number: 19-RC-363805 Date Filed: 04/15/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 18 Location: Seattle, WA Region Assigned: Region 19, Seattle, Washington Unit Sought: Included: All Service Employees. Excluded: All managerial employees, supervisory employees, guards, physicians, business office clerical employees, Pro, technical and any other confidential employees. SEIU Healthcare 1199NW
GSH Group
Case Number: 32-RC-363803 Date Filed: 04/15/2025 Status: Open No Employees: 4 Location: Oakland, CA Region Assigned: Region 32, Oakland, California Unit Sought: Included: All full time and part time Chief Engineers, Assistant Chief Engineers, Stationary Engineers and Utility Engineers. Excluded: All other classifications, including but not limited to guards, managers, confidential employees and supervisors as defined by the Act. International Union of Operating Engineers, Stationary Engineers, Local 39, AFL-CIO
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.
