Washington, DC (February 12, 2015)<\/b> \u2013 The National Right to Work Foundation has filed briefs in two federal courts challenging the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) recently-enacted regulations that will further give union organizers the upper hand over independent-minded employees during unionization campaigns.<\/p>\n
The rules are designed to dramatically shorten the time individual workers have to share information with their coworkers about the effects of unionization. The regulations also require employers to hand over workers’ private information to union organizers, including their phone numbers and email addresses.<\/p>\n
The latest rules changes were rushed out before former union lawyer Nancy Schiffer’s term expired on December 16, 2014. The NLRB had previously rushed the regulations out before former Service Employees International Union (SEIU) lawyer Craig Becker’s term expired in December 2011, but they were later invalidated by a federal district court in 2012 on procedural grounds.<\/p>\n
Foundation staff attorneys now argue in amicus curiae<\/i> briefs filed with the U.S. District Courts for the District of Columbia and the Western District of Texas that the new rules violate federal law, because the Board is shirking its statutory duty to determine the scope of the bargaining unit. Under the rules, unionization elections will proceed despite disputes over the unit’s scope if less than 20 percent of the bargaining unit’s composition is contested.<\/p>\n
\u00abIt would be absurd for a redistricting commission to assert that it properly defined a congressional district while leaving unresolved whether one-fifth of adjacent counties are in or out of the district,\u00bb Foundation attorneys state. \u00abSo too is it absurd for the Board to claim it is defining an appropriate bargaining unit while leaving unresolved whether one-fifth of job positions are in that unit.\u00bb<\/p>\n
\u00abBeing up to 20% wrong about the proper scope of a unit is simply not ‘close enough for government work,'\u00bb the briefs continue.<\/p>\n
Foundation attorneys also argue in the briefs that the rule requiring job providers to hand over the employees’ personal information to union bosses violates workers’ privacy.<\/p>\n
\u00abThe NLRB has once again regurgitated Big Labor’s wish list with these election rules designed to make unionization campaigns even more one-sided in an effort to boost union bosses\u2019 forced dues ranks,\u00bb said Mark Mix, President of the National Right to Work Foundation. \u00abThe Obama Labor Board’s latest give-away to Big Labor will ambush unsuspecting workers into union ranks and encroaches on the privacy rights of employees who may oppose unionization in their workplace.\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Washington, DC (February 12, 2015)<\/b> \u2013 The National Right to Work Foundation has filed briefs in two federal courts challenging the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) recently-enacted regulations that will further give union organizers the upper hand over independent-minded employees during unionization campaigns.<\/p>\n
The rules are designed to dramatically shorten the time individual workers have to share information with their coworkers about the effects of unionization. The regulations also require employers to hand over workers’ private information to union organizers, including their phone numbers and email addresses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n