NLRB

  • Card Check: Can It Organize the Unorganized?

    Author(s):
    Kim Moody

    Excerpt:
    Employers do everything in their power to make sure workers don’t get a chance to vote for a union. They flout labor law, making a joke of the familiar National Labor Relations Board procedures where the government’s job is to oversee a “fair fight” election between the union and the boss. . . .

    Available Online:
    Yes

  • Hospital Organizing Has Slowed, Two Years After Labor Board's Controversial Supervisor Decision

    Author(s):
    Mischa Gaus

    Excerpt:
    Joanne Thompson found out the hard way how management is exploiting a loose definition of a supervisor to strip workers of the ability to form unions. She had spent five years as a “charge nurse” at West Houston Medical Center, checking up on medication schedules and juggling workloads for the nurses on her floor, who monitor heart patients....

    Available Online:
    Yes

  • Labor Board Limits Political Strikes

    Author(s):
    Robert Schwartz

    Excerpt:
    On May Day 2006, hundreds of thousands of immigrant workers walked off their jobs to protest restrictive immigration legislation. Some were fired, and brought complaints to the board. Ronald Meisburg, the National Labor Relations Board general counsel, responded by posting a directive on “political advocacy” this July that enables bosses to immediately fire employees who participate in work stoppages of a political nature....

    Available Online:
    Yes

  • ‘Card Check’ Takes a Hit

    Author(s):
    Kim Moody

    Excerpt:
    The National Labor Relations Board rewrote in September a 40-year-old doctrine that will undermine one of labor’s more successful organizing tactics—card-check recognition. . . .

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    Yes