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Workers Back NLRB’s Proposed Union Election Rule
In June, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a notice of proposed changes in the way elections to form unions are conducted, which AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka called “a modest step” and a “common sense approach to clean up an outdated system” to ensure workers have a fair choice.
While the NLRB was seeking comments from the public about the new election standard, business groups and anti-worker politicians launched a massive attack with distortions and outright lies about the changes. (Click here for myths and facts about the rule.) Today the AFL-CIO is submitting more than 21,000 comments to the NLRB from everyday working people who see things quite a bit differently.
Phillip from Colorado says he fully supports and applauds the NLRB’s effort “in cleaning up the rights of American workers to collectively bargain for compensatory pay and benefits.”
Corporations consciously ignore the very foundation of their success, which is the workers. I only wish that laws could be in place to protect every worker whether they are union or not. You can count on my support.
In New York, Iris asks, “How many years of fighting, sweating, suffering and protesting went into assuring workers had this right—a right I consider imperative and non-negotiable?”
As a working person, I support your proposed rule to help level the playing field so workers can make their own choice about whether to form a union.
The proposed changes would:
- Allow for electronic filing of election petitions and other documents.
- Ensure that employees, employers and unions receive and exchange timely information they need to understand and participate in the representation case process.
- Standardize timeframes for parties to resolve or litigate issues before and after elections.
- Require parties to identify issues and describe evidence soon after an election petition is filed to facilitate resolution and eliminate unnecessary litigation.
- Require employers to provide a final voter list in electronic form soon after the scheduling of an election, including voters’ telephone numbers and email addresses when available.
- Consolidate all election-related appeals to the board into a single post-election appeals process and thereby eliminate delay in holding elections currently attributable to the possibility of pre-election appeals.
Make board review of post-election decisions discretionary rather than mandatory.
Gary in Wisconsin has seen first hand the “unprecedented state-level attacks on working families and the worst economy for working people since the Great Depression and tells the NLRB:
I welcome your rule to improve the process for working people trying to form unions. Please continue to protect the path unions provide for so many working families to good jobs, the middle class and the American Dream.
Click here, here and here for coverage from the NLRB’s July hearings on the proposed election changes.
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Right on Mike Hall and Clarence Swinney, right on!
One point I want to make about the article, and that is the reference to electronic filing.
Our country is tragically switching over to electronic digital records for everything. Electronic digital records are UNPROVABLE. Ask any computer hacking expert and you will receive the same information, which is why electronic voting is a travesty.
The Establishment (like banks) like to brag about how accurate and complete their electronic records are in their conspiracy to eliminate paper documents, but those electronic records are only accurate and complete WHEN THEY WANT THEM TO BE! Then there is the federal law from before the 1980s that banks do not have to maintain original receipts, they can simply say you owe something and their artificial “records” rule.
We no longer have in our country VERIFIABLE records! And our ignorant public accepts this by using debit and credit cards instead of cash, by allowing banks to stop returning our processed cheques, by allowing computer transactions and even cell-phone financial transactions instead of mailing in payments! People are just so trusting in an untrust-worthy transactional infrastructure, and when Citibank finally influences Congress to STOP PRINTING CURRENCY AND STOP MINTING COINS, then the electronic system will OWN us entirely! You can interpret that as meaning we will need PERMISSION to spend our own pay-cheques when the entire financial system is electronic! And please do not think I am being facetious, I am not! These probelms are already happening and have happened for about the past forty years, but the immature public just has not noticed this yet! When our entire financial system is electronic, then we will be completely helpless, we will have to accept THEIR records !!!!!!!
You are absolutley right about electronic filing and/or voting. That part needs to change. This allows the employer to manipulate the whole process.
Well, employers already have the clandestine federal anti-embezzlement law that allows them to ACESS EVERY EMPLOYEE’S PERSONAL BANK AND CREDIT UNION ACCOUNTS WITHOUT INFOMING THE EMPLOYEE to discover WHERE your deposits come from and how much the deposits were and on what dates the deposits were made, PLUS who we write our CHEQUES to with the amount and when the transaction was completed!!! I only found out about this from a trainmaster who bragged to me that “the company buys the groceries” so I had better be a good employee!
HOWEVER… in the case of electronic voting being manipulated-controlled-sabotaged as was documented in the 2000-2002-2004-2006-2008-2010 elections (get the point?), it is the POLITICAL ESTABLISHMENT as well as the COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENT who control the electronic voting machines, and then they have the U.S. Supreme Electoral College Court to further enforce that sabotage of Democracy.
So it is not the employers necessarily that we are at risk to, IT IS THEIR CONSORTIUM ESTABLISHMENT ORGANIZATION that we must be worried about, but we needed the public to react in ire back in 2001 when Al Gore won the election!
If unions get enough workers to sign cards that they want a union,
the workers should have a union If management tries to stop the
workers from signing uion cards, the managers of the company should
be jailed and lose all their money.
I am not to sure this will become law. There is just to much money behind stoping this. In fact my biggest fear is if one of the Republicans now running for President and right now it looks like 50-50. There will no longer be any unions in America. No NLRB. NO OSHA. You will have to pay for your workmens comp. Oh you can laugh, but this has already been talked about in business round tables. No Labor has got to get a lot more on there side than they have now. The AFL-CIO should send out questioners and ask the public what they think about Labor Unions.
The AFL-CIO is too working on this, Angered. The AFL-CIO just filed to form a “Super PAC” to fund political actions, and a “Super PAC” is exactly what the corporations have been using because the “Super PAC” does not have DONATION LIMITATIONS and DONATION DISCLOSURE like political contributions have!!!!! And that’s the law!!!!!!