{"id":354,"date":"2008-09-30T13:02:04","date_gmt":"2008-09-30T13:02:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T18:15:31","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:15:31","slug":"foundation-attorneys-win-another-nlrb-case-union-bosses-retaliated-against-nonmember-by-yanking-seniority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nrtw.org\/es\/blog\/foundation-attorneys-win-another-nlrb-case-union-bosses-retaliated-against-nonmember-by-yanking-seniority\/","title":{"rendered":"Foundation Attorneys Win Another NLRB Case: Union Bosses Retaliated Against Nonmember By Yanking Seniority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThe National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has ruled in favor of a nonunion worker represented by National Right to Work Foundation attorneys, finding that Interstate Bakeries Corp. and local Teamsters union officials violated the law when they stripped a nonmember worker of his seniority during a merger.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn November of 2005, company and union officials agreed to consolidate two corporate divisions. One division was staffed by a single nonunion sales representative who had put in more time with the company than any of his counterparts at the other division. Company officials tried to ensure that he retained his seniority during the merger, but Teamsters officials stood fast, insisting on discriminating against him because of his nonunion status.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn the sales business, seniority has serious implications for workers. The longer you&#8217;ve been with the company, the better your chances are of securing more desirable sales routes and vacation time. In this case, union officials wanted to unilaterally strip a nonunion sales representative of his earned seniority, placing him at the bottom of the totem pole.  It was effectively retaliation for his nonunion status.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFortunately, the NLRB agreed with Foundation attorneys and found that union officials broke the law when they discriminated against the nonunion sales representative by favoring unionized employees during the merger. Here&#8217;s the crux of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nlrb.gov\/research\/decisions\/board_decisions\/template_html.aspx?file=http:\/\/www.nlrb.gov\/shared_files\/Board%20Decisions\/353\/v35314.htm&amp;size=177\">decision<\/a> (emphasis mine):\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\n\tThe only difference between Rammage [the nonunion worker] and those Dolly Madison employees who were dovetailed [given favorable seniority status during the merger] was the fact that Rammage had not previously been represented by the Union. <b>The Union admits that it treated Rammage differently and unfavorably because he was not previously represented. In addition, the comments of Respondent Employer&#8217;s manager<\/b>s Roberts and Simmons to Rammage, that he lost his seniority because &quot;he was not in the Union,&quot; <b>demonstrate that he was singled out becasue he had not previously been represented by a labor organization.<\/b>\n\t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\nThe National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has ruled in favor of a nonunion worker represented by National Right to Work Foundation attorneys, finding that Interstate Bakeries Corp. and local Teamsters union officials violated the law when they stripped a nonmember worker of his seniority during a merger.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn November of 2005, company and union officials agreed to consolidate two corporate divisions. One division was staffed by a single nonunion sales representative who had put in more time with the company than any of his counterparts at the other division. Company officials tried to ensure that he retained his seniority during the merger, but Teamsters officials stood fast, insisting on discriminating against him because of his nonunion status.<\/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":[889],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Foundation Attorneys Win Another NLRB Case: Union Bosses Retaliated Against Nonmember By Yanking Seniority - National Right to Work Foundation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nrtw.org\/es\/blog\/foundation-attorneys-win-another-nlrb-case-union-bosses-retaliated-against-nonmember-by-yanking-seniority\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Foundation Attorneys Win Another NLRB Case: Union Bosses Retaliated Against Nonmember By Yanking Seniority - National Right to Work Foundation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has ruled in favor of a nonunion worker represented by National Right to Work Foundation attorneys, finding that Interstate Bakeries Corp. and local Teamsters union officials violated the law when they stripped a nonmember worker of his seniority during a merger.    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