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| The United Auto Workers’ (UAW) annual Labor Department filing shows that UAW membership grew by 3.1 percent in 2014—adding more than 12,000 workers. Total UAW membership rose for the fifth consecutive year and now stands at 403,466 workers. The UAW has added nearly 50,000 members since 2009. But, membership still is down more than one million from its peak level of 1.53 million in 1979. |
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| According to annual reports filed by the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) with the Labor Department from 2001 to 2015, total membership in the UFCW decreased slightly in 2014, nudging the union to its lowest headcount in 14 years. The union claimed its loss of 2,352 members was a “small decline [that] can be attributed to economic shifts and regular fluctuations in membership.” |
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| Delta Air Lines Inc., the least unionized major air carrier in the U.S., dodged a union representation election among its 20,000 flight attendants when the International Association of Machinists (IAM) abandoned plans to seek a vote. The union announced on its website that it was ending its election bid on account of too many questionable authorization cards. The union plans to re-file for an election in 12 months. |
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| Members of the Labor Program of the Alaska Nurses Association (AaNA), which represents about 1,300 nurses in three bargaining units in the state, voted to affiliate with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) as a part of the AFT’s Nurses and Health Professionals Division. The AaNA is a professional association that claims nearly 12,000 members, about 1,300 of whom are represented by the group’s Labor Program. |
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| Cleaners at Philadelphia International Airport voted overwhelming (151-2) in favor of representation by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). |
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| UNITE HERE Local 26 was selected to represent more than 100 workers at the Doubletree by Hilton Boston-Cambridge hotel. The election ends more than two years of protests for a “fair process to unionize” employees at the Harvard University-owned property. |
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| IAM withdrew a representation election petition for more than 3,000 workers at Boeing’s production facility in North Charleston, S.C., while also filing an unfair labor practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board), alleging that Boeing unlawfully interfered with employees’ rights to organize, in violation of Section 8(a)(1) of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). The union claims injunctive relief is warranted due to “the potential for violence and obvious infringement upon Section 7 rights caused by the employer’s conduct.” |
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| An NLRB hearing officer overruled Howard University Hospital’s objections to a representation election in January, where resident physicians and fellows voted 110-106 in favor of union representation. If the election results are certified by the Board, the Committee of Interns and Residents/Service Employees International Union Healthcare (CIR/SEIU Healthcare) will serve as the bargaining representative for 263 resident physicians and fellows at the hospital. |
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| The UFCW has slashed more than half of the funding for its “OUR Walmart” campaign. The UFCW’s new president campaigned on the platform that too many resources had been devoted to the effort. |
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| A United Auto Workers Local 42 representative claimed it was time for the Volkswagen Group of America Inc. to give the union card check approval. The union cited a financial report the union filed with the Labor Department, which states that the local has majority membership status at the automaker’s Chattanooga, Tenn., assembly plant. |
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| Twenty-four ABM Onsite Services West, Inc, full-time and part-time “bag jammer technicians” and dispatchers working at the Portland International Airport voted to join Machinists District W24. The workers are all employed as contract baggage handlers, assisting with baggage screening for the Portland Airlines Consortium, which is comprised of all the airlines that operate out of the Portland airport. |
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| The federal government has signed agreements with three foreign countries – Mexico, Ecuador and the Philippines – to establish outreach programs to teach immigrants their rights to engage in labor organizing in the U.S. The agreements do not distinguish between those who entered legally or illegally. They are part of a broader effort by the NLRB to encourage immigrants’ involvement in union activism. |
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| A federal judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada blocked a threatened strike by Teamsters-represented Allegiant Airlines pilots, holding that the carrier had met its legal burden for a temporary restraining order barring a walkout that would have reportedly grounded 250 flights and affected 33,000 travelers. Union officials threatened that more than 500 pilots would walk off the job to protest the carrier’s alleged failure to comply with an earlier court order to reverse a scheduling system change and restore other benefits. |
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| Some 500 nonunion service employees at Philadelphia International Airport staged a single-day strike to protest low wages and alleged unfair labor practices by two contractors. Wheelchair attendants and baggage handlers walked off their scheduled shifts to demand airport contractors – Prospect Airport Services Inc. and PrimeFlight Airline Services Inc. – begin implementing an executive order requiring the city’s contractors to pay workers at least $12 per hour. The wage mandate, signed by the Philadelphia mayor in May 2014, was supposed to take effect Jan. 1, yet the airport employees report still earning closer to $8 per hour. |
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| More than 300 workers of the Flying Food Group who prepare meals for international flights departing Los Angeles International Airport returned to work April 15 after a 24-hour strike to protest “insufficient” staffing levels and equipment at their workplace. |
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| Twenty SEIU Local 1 janitors and supporters were arrested at a rally held outside of a BMO Harris Bank location in downtown Chicago. The union claimed the rally was in protest of BMO’s “treatment of its contract employees.” The union is currently negotiating contracts for about 12,000 members. |
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| On April 15, 2015, fast food workers walked off their jobs in an estimated 236 cities in the 13th one-day protest since late 2012. “Fight for $15,” with financial and strategic backing from the SEIU, also has recruited childcare workers, adjunct professors, students and industrial laundry employees to join in the events. The protesters continued their demands for a $15 industry-wide hourly wage floor and the right to choose union representation without fear of retaliation. |
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| Approximately 250 wheelchair attendants and baggage handlers at two New York airports went on strike to protest their contract employer’s repeated retaliatory threats. In their second one-day walkout since February, employees of contractor Aviation Safeguards at John F. Kennedy International Airport and nearby LaGuardia Airport, called attention to a recently filed unfair labor practice charge. The charge accuses Aviation Safeguards of handing out a letter warning workers that they are legally barred from striking, one day after their participation, on April 15, in the Fight for $15 protest by striking fast-food workers. |
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| Hundreds of nonunion truck drivers who haul shipping containers from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach for four drayage firms went on strike, alleging wage theft and independent contractor misclassifications. The drivers work for Harbor Rail Transport, Intermodal Bridge Transport, Pacer Cartage and Pacific 9 Transportation. Striking drivers are asking to be classified as employees rather than contractors. |
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| The United Steelworkers and BP Plc have reached a tentative agreement covering more than 1,100 workers on local issues for workers at the company’s Whiting, Ind. refinery. The international union must still approve the agreement to ensure its provisions do not conflict with the oil industry’s national pattern agreement reached in March. The union and BP also must negotiate the process by which employees will return to work following a nearly three-month strike. The new tentative contract would remove language in previous agreements that allowed workers to strike if the union and the employer were not in agreement over a new policy that BP sought to implement, and if both parties refused to enter arbitration. The tentative agreement also provides for lump-sum payments of $4,000 in the first year of the contract and $2,000 in the second year, on top of the wage provisions contained in the national USW oil industry pattern agreement. That contract provides for wage increases of 2.5 percent in 2015, three percent in 2016, three percent in 2017 and 3.5 percent in 2018. |
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| According to data compiled by Bloomberg BNA, average first-year wage increases reported in the first quarter of 2015 were higher than the increases reported in first quarter 2014 in all sectors except manufacturing, where the average increase was down slightly. The all-settlements average first-year wage increase under contracts negotiated in 2015 was 2.7 percent, compared with 1.6 percent reported in first-quarter 2014. Average second- and third-year wage increases to date in 2015 were 2.2 percent and 2.3 percent, respectively, compared with 1.9 percent and 2.1 percent, respectively, reported a year ago. The median first-year wage increase for settlements reported to date in 2015 was 2.1 percent, compared with 2 percent in 2014, and the weighted average was 3.8 percent, compared with 2.8 percent. |
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| Labour Canada reported that major collective agreements reached in Canada during February provided covered employees with average base rate wage increases of two percent, smaller than the 2.4 percent average for increases in January, but larger than the 1.5 percent average in December 2014. The February average was larger than the 1.6 percent average for settlements in the fourth quarter of 2014, and the 1.7 percent average for 2014 as a whole. Labour Canada only reports on settlements involving 500 or more employees. |
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| More than 1,900 SEIU Chicago janitors ratified collective bargaining agreements with Chicago Public Schools. The three-year collective bargaining agreement provides wage increases, additional sick days, and enhancements to health benefits. A central feature of the agreement is two additional sick days to compensate for the loss of two school holidays eliminated by the school district. The janitors are employees of various cleaning service firms holding contracts with CPS. |
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| New York University graduate assistants, represented by a UAW affiliate, announced that they ratified an initial labor contract, restoring their status as the nation’s only private university graduate employees covered by a collective bargaining agreement. In a 977-9 tally, members of the Graduate Student Organizing Committee (GSOC-UAW) at NYU approved a five-year deal with wage hikes totaling at least 12 percent over term and at least 90 percent of health-care premiums funded by the university. |
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| SAG-AFTRA reached a three-year tentative agreement with producers on a contract covering actors in corporate and educational films and videos. The tentative agreement would provide a three percent increase in minimum compensation and an additional three percent increase to take effect in November 2016. Employers also would increase contributions to the union’s health and retirement funds by 0.5 percent upon ratification and by three percent in the first year. In addition, the agreement covers actors who lend their voices to Interactive Voice Recording Phone Prompt Systems (IVR), who would see first-hour compensation raised by nearly 80 percent. About 4,900 of the union’s 160,000 active members work under the corporate-educational contract in a calendar year. |
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| SEIU members voted overwhelmingly to ratify a three-year collective bargaining agreement with nonprofit Minnesota hospital system, Allina Health, covering some 3,000 workers at eight facilities in the state. The contract provides for a minimum wage of at least $15 per hour. |
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| Members of UNITE HERE affiliates Culinary Workers Local 226 and Bartenders Union Local 165 ratified a four-year collective bargaining agreement with MGM Grand Las Vegas covering about 4,000 workers. The contract covers the casino-resort’s staff of porters, bellmen, guest room attendants, cocktail servers, bartenders, food servers, and cooks. The deal includes no employee healthcare premium contributions, new guidelines for housekeepers to clean “trashed” or extremely dirty hotel rooms, and a “pilot program” to help bring laid-off workers back to work when a shuttered restaurant reopens. |
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| UFCW members in New York have ratified separate but similar 37-month contracts with the Stop & Shop Supermarket and King Kullen Grocery chains that cover more than 8,500 workers at 87 stores. The contracts provide wage increases for all covered full-time and part-time workers. Covered employees were able to maintain our current pension and medical benefits. |
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| More than 2,200 Graduate Employees Union/United Auto Workers Local 6950 represented graduate assistants at the University of Connecticut reached a tentative three-year contract that includes a minimum 9.3 percent compound wage increase over the life of the agreement. The agreement is the first since the university’s teaching assistants and graduate assistants voted for representation. If approved, the agreement will run from July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2018. |
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| The Illinois State Toll Highway Authority rescinded a 20-year-old project labor agreement with building trades unions, embracing a key feature of the political agenda of Gov. Bruce Rauner (R), which asserts that organized labor distorts the price of public construction projects. The board of directors of the tollway authority voted 6-3 to abandon the multi-project labor agreement. The shift is effective May 1, and will affect all future capital projects involving the agency’s 286-mile network of interstate tollways in 12 counties in northern Illinois. |
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| The National Nurses United reached a tentative collective bargaining agreement with the University of Chicago Medical Center, averting plans for a one-day strike. The union represents some 1,550 registered nurses. The union has not provided details of the contract. |
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| An NLRB administrative law judge found that a California hospital failed to comply with a previous Board order by posting a notice alongside a required NLRB posting for employees, and committed a number of actions that interfered with a representation election held last year. The ALJ recommended a rerun of a representation election held in June 2014, in which nurses at Memorial Medical Center in Modesto, California rejected representation by the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United by a vote of 462–352. The ALJ found that the hospital interfered with the election by, among other things, sending all employees in the proposed bargaining unit a DVD with possible scenarios that could result from unionization and posting a “side notice” next to a required NLRB posting. Sutter Cent. Valley Hosps. |
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| The NLRB ruled that a catering company violated federal labor law when it fired a server who called a manager a “nasty mother f------” and posted “vote YES for the UNION” on Facebook two days before a union election. The employer argued that such “vulgar and obscene” comments forfeited legal protection, but a Board majority held that the comments constituted protected, concerted activity because the comments arose from an incident of alleged mistreatment by the manager, which was one of driving forces behind the organizing efforts. Pier Sixty LLC. |
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| The NLRB ruled that Arc Bridges Inc. unlawfully withheld a raise from union-represented workers in 2007, while nonunion workers got a three-percent pay bump. The majority held that, among other things, the record showed an executive director intended to give workers a three percent wage increase until they voted in favor of representation by the American Federation of Professional and statements from managers essentially encouraged employees to blame the union for the pay bump being withheld. Arc Bridges. |
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| The NLRB reversed a Regional Director’s decision to allow a decertification petition pertaining to an Americold Logistics LLC bargaining unit to move forward, saying the petition was barred because it was filed too soon after the parties’ first bargaining meeting. According to the ruling, the issue in this case was whether the one-year bargaining period under the recognition bar begins running from the date the employer recognized the union or from the start of bargaining. The Board stated that, “[w]e make clear here that the ‘reasonable period of bargaining’ under the recognition bar is a minimum of six months and a maximum of one year, measured from the date of the first bargaining meeting between the union and the employer.” Americold Logistics LLC et al. |
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| The NLRB refused to approve an ALJ’s recommendation of withdrawal of an unfair labor practice charge challenging an employer’s maintenance and enforcement of employee arbitration agreements that contain a class action waiver. The ALJ found transportation provider Flyte Time Worldwide violated the NLRA by requiring employees to sign the agreements, and recommended that the company be ordered to halt its efforts to block a class and collective wage and hour action brought by employees under federal and state law. Flyte Time appealed the ALJ’s decision, but it later settled the underlying wage and hour case, with the employees agreeing to withdraw the NLRB charge. The NLRB denied the withdrawal and held that the settlement resolved the private rights of employees under wage and hour laws, but it left in place an unlawful requirement that employees waive the right to file class and collective action claims in all forums. Flyte Tyme Worldwide. |
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| The NLRB affirmed an ALJ determination that Professional Transportation Inc. violated federal labor law when it refused to bargain with the Teamsters unless the union agreed that any deal would be void if the Supreme Court upheld Noel Canning. The ALJ had found that the transportation company ran afoul of its duty to bargain in good faith when it tried to insist that the union agree that any further bargaining would be subject to the company’s reservation of rights—that the Supreme Court’s decision in Noel Canning could therefore decertify the bargaining unit and void any collective bargaining agreement. International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 512. |
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| A federal district court in Minnesota enjoined an equipment maker from threatening that employees would suffer reprisals if they supported a union, but it refused to order employer A.S.V. Inc. to bargain with the union on an interim basis while the NLRB resolves unfair labor practice charges against the company. Osthus v. A.S.V., Inc. |
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| The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that a district court erred when it granted the NLRB an injunction compelling Creative Vision Resources LLC to recognize a union. The court held that the alleged labor law violations at issue were not “egregious or exceptional.” United Labor Unions Local 100 filed an NLRB charge against Creative Vision, faulting the company for refusing to recognize or bargain with it. The union alleged that Creative Vision was a successor to a company, Berry, which had struck bargaining agreements with the union, and was therefore required to bargain. M. McKinney v. Creative Vision Resources, LLC. |
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| The NLRB decided that two unions, the United Construction Trades and Industrial Employees Union Local 621 and SEIU Local 32BJ are barred from representing recently hired cleaning employees of a New York airport contractor because the workers already are covered by an existing labor contract with another union, the United Workers of America, Local 660. It denied a separate motion filed by the contractor, which argued that it was covered by the Railway Labor Act, which covers the airline industry. Airway Cleaners, LLC. |
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| The D.C. Circuit upheld an NLRB ruling that federal labor law did not require the Amalgamated Transit Union to remove Facebook comments posted by union members threatening workers who crossed a picket line, finding that the union is not responsible for members’ comments in a private online forum. Plaintiff Charles Weigand, a nonunion Veolia Transportation Services Inc. bus driver, argued on appeal that the union should be held responsible for the comments since a union officer controlled the group’s Facebook page. A three-judge D.C. Circuit panel disagreed, saying the comments do not equate to misconduct on a picket line. Charles Weigand v. NLRB. |
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| The NLRB urged a federal district court in Kentucky to invalidate a county ordinance, Hardin County’s Ordinance 300, that prohibits the use of union-security provisions in collective bargaining agreements and regulates other practices which the Board argued are preempted by the NLRA. The Board argued that while Section 14(b) of the NLRA allows states or territories to prohibit union-security agreements, it does not authorize counties or political subdivisions to adopt similar measures. The NLRB also argued that Ordinance 300 is preempted to the extent it outlaws union hiring halls, regulates dues-checkoff agreements, and prohibits coercion and discrimination related to support or nonsupport for a labor organization. The Board further asserted that regulation of those matters falls under Sections 7 and 8 of the NLRA and is unaffected by Section 14(b). Auto Workers Local 3047 v. Hardin County. |
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| The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit vacated an injunction imposed in 2013 to stop a strike by Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen members, finding that a railroad carrier’s use of managers on train crews – instead of engineers or conductors – constituted a major dispute under the Railway Labor Act. Wheeling & Lake Erie Ry. v. Locomotive Eng’rs. |
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| A federal district court in Washington, D.C. rejected a concrete contractor’s bid to block implementation of the Board’s amended representation case regulations. Baker DC LLC sought a temporary restraining order after United Construction Workers Local 202 filed a petition seeking an NLRB-supervised vote on union representation among Baker carpenters and laborers working in and around the District of Columbia. Baker DC, LLC v. NLRB. |
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| An NLRB ALJ ruled that an Applebee’s restaurant operator’s arbitration policy precluding worker class actions violated federal labor law, despite the employer’s argument that its dispute resolution program was in line with federal case precedent. The Rose Group, which operates Applebee’s Neighborhood Bar and Grill restaurants in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, and Delaware, argued that the ALJ should not follow the Board’s controversial D.R. Horton and Murphy Oil decisions but instead look to precedent from federal courts. However, the ALJ determined she was required to apply Board law unless it has been reversed by the Supreme Court. The Rose Group d/b/a Applebee’s Restaurant. |
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| The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit found the NLRB failed to examine a New Jersey health care facility’s motives when it determined that the employer improperly withheld benefits from workers mulling unionization. The three-judge panel declared it was “at a loss” as to why the Board sided with an ALJ’s ruling that 800 River Road Operating Co. LLC, which does business as Woodcrest Health Care Center, violated labor laws in withholding the benefits, but didn’t consider “that a violation of [labor laws] normally turns on an employer’s anti-union purpose or motive.” National Labor Relations Board v. 800 River Road. |
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| The NLRB ruled that IAM and Aerospace Workers, AFL–CIO, District 70 and Local Lodge 839, representing thousands of Spirit AeroSystems Inc. workers in Wichita, Kans., violated federal labor law when a representative caused the terminations of two workers and threatened one of them with “bodily harm.” The ALJ ruled that the union was on the hook for a union agent’s forwarding emails that had a video of a collision between a truck and scooter by the company’s entrance to Spirit management. International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, AFL-CIO District 70 and Local Lodge 839. |
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| A partial settlement, between the EEOC and Local 28 of the Sheet Metal Workers’ International Association was proposed in a long-running race discrimination case against a New York City sheet metal workers union local that would set a compensation fund to make back pay awards estimated at $12.7 million over five years. The race and national origin discrimination lawsuit was filed in 1971 by the Justice Department, the New York Human Rights Division, and New York City under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, on behalf of black and Hispanic workers denied admission to Local 28. The EEOC took over the case from the DOJ in 1974. Over its 44-year span, the case yielded numerous decisions, including a 1975 finding of discrimination and a series of contempt orders against the local ending in 2005. In January 2008, a partial settlement was reached in the case for $6.2 million in back pay claims from January 1984 through March 1991. The new partial settlement proposal covers claims of work-hour disparities, or underemployment, based on race from April 1991 through June 2006. The settlement must still be approved by the Southern District of New York. EEOC v. Local 638. |
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| On April 6, NLRB General Counsel Richard F. Griffin, Jr. issued a lengthy guidance memorandum intended to explain modifications to the representation case processing procedures under the Board’s Final Rule, adopted in December 2014. The General Counsel’s guidance covers how representation cases will be processed from beginning to end, incorporating both the Final Rule changes and the procedures that remain unchanged. The Board’s Final Rule went into effect on April 14, 2015, and applies to representation cases filed on or after that date. Significantly, the General Counsel notes in the guidance that neither the Final Rule nor the memorandum “establishes new time frames for conducting elections or issuing decisions.” Rather, he states that the Board will not be able to fully assess the Final Rule’s impact on the overall timing of elections until after the Board accumulates some experience processing representation petitions under the Final Rule. The General Counsel instructs that “Regions should continue to process representation petitions and conduct elections expeditiously, consistent with the Board’s Rules,” and that where any inconsistencies exist, his Guidance Memorandum “supersedes the instructions in the Agency’s manuals and other guidance, which will be updated in the near future.” |
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| Republican leaders of tax-writing committees said that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) should look into the tax-exempt status of organizations known as worker centers that are classified as charities but may be operating more as labor unions. In a letter to IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) questioned whether the tax code Section 501(c)(3) status of some worker centers should be changed to labor union under Section 501(c)(5). The Labor Department also has been asked, by another committee, to review worker centers’ filing requirements to see whether certain centers are engaging in traditional union activities, such as conducting labor disputes and negotiating with employers on behalf of employees. |
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| Native American leaders told a Senate panel that legislation to prevent the NLRB from acting in tribal employment matters is needed to preserve tribes’ sovereignty and protect their gaming operations. The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs heard testimony on The Tribal Labor Sovereignty Act of 2015, S. 248, which would amend the NLRA to exempt enterprises owned and operated by an Indian tribe and located on its lands, from the law because they would no longer be considered an employer. |
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| A member of Philadelphia Ironworkers Local 401 who testified against the union’s leader in a trial over a plot to sabotage nonunion worksites was sentenced to serve three years in federal prison. James Walsh was slapped with the sentence, which includes nearly $130,000 in restitution, after he testified in January that Ironworkers business manager, Joseph Dougherty, was aware of a so-called shadow gang that federal prosecutors say was responsible for myriad acts of vandalism and sabotage at nonunion worksites, including the torching of a Quaker meetinghouse. |
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| In related matters, Greg Sullivan, a member of Philadelphia Ironworkers Local 401 who pled guilty in 2014 to a Hobbs Act extortion charge was sentenced by a federal judge to 27 months in prison for his role as part of the "shadow gang" in a plot to sabotage nonunion worksites. Sullivan was ordered to pay restitution of just over $10,000, half of which must be paid within 30 days, and three years of supervised release. Also, Edward Sweeny, a business agent of Philadelphia Ironworkers Local 401 who pled guilty in 2014 to the charges of racketeering and arson as a “shadow gang” member, was sentenced by a federal judge to eight years in prison, and ordered to pay restitution of $217,000. |
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| Two New York City plumbing and pipefitting union members admitted guilt in Manhattan federal court to a scheme to sell union memberships in exchange for large cash payments, following a third member who pleaded guilty a week ago. Christopher Lupino, 52, and Kelwyn Benjamin, 41, pled guilty to one count each of conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud, a crime that carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison. They each waived their right to appeal if they are sentenced to between 12 and 18 months in prison. Their sentencing hearings are scheduled for July 31. |
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| Members of the Newspaper Guild of New York approved a measure to erase “paper” from the union’s moniker, a change that mirrors other Communications Workers of America affiliates’ adaptation to an evolving news-gathering Business. The Guild will now be called the NewsGuild of New York. |
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| A public opinion survey by Pew Research Center showed that Americans are divided in their views on the impact of the decline of unions in recent decades, but a strong majority of them support workers’ right to unionize. Asked whether the reduction has been “mostly good for the country” or “mostly bad,” 43 percent of survey respondents said mostly good, 45 percent said mostly bad, and the rest had mixed views or no opinion. Asked about the impact on working people, 52 percent saw it as mostly bad, and 40 percent, mostly good. The findings are based on telephone interviews conducted in March among a national sample of 1,500 Americans ages 18 and older. |
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