I never really thought of a union campaign as a hostage situation until I read this. Great advice on how to influence others.
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In what has become a semi-annual event over the last few years, authorities are searching a field outside Detroit for the remains of Jimmy Hoffa. The tug-of-war controversy surrounding the NLRB took another turn today when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upheld a lower court ruling blocking the National Labor Relations Board from requiring employers to post a new notice of their “right to organize.” In doing so, the court stated that the National Labor Relations Act never intended to provide the NLRB with the authority for any kind of proactive rulemaking. “There is no general grant of power to the NLRB outside the roles of addressing [unfair labor practice] charges and conducting representation elections,” wrote Judge Allyson Duncan, who was joined by judges Henry Floyd and Stephanie Thacker. “Indeed, there is no function or responsibility of the Board not predicated upon the filing of an unfair labor practice charge or a representation petition.” Duncan continued: “Because the Board is nowhere charged with informing employees of their Continue reading BREAKING NEWS: Appeals Court Upholds Poster Ruling, Slaps NLRB In a joint statement, Congressmen John Kline (R-MN) and Phil Roe (R-TN) requested that the DOL abandon the proposed changes to the advice exemption of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act. Kline chairs the House Education and Workforce Committee, and Roe chairs the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions (HELP). Read the press release here.
Source: New York Post Yes, this seems to be representative of how Mark Rosenthal, president of Local 983 of District Council 37 (New York City’s largest blue-collar municipal-workers union), spends his workday. According to union vice president Marvin Robbins, “He eats lunch when he arrives at work at 2 p.m. Then, like clockwork, he goes to sleep with a cup of soda on the table and the straw in it.” A couple of hours later, apparently Rosenthal is done for the day, “Then he wakes up, looks at his watch and says, ‘I have to get out before the traffic gets bad.’ He’s usually out by 4 p.m. after being at the office two hours.”
George Will compares the NLRB’s recent flaunting of the Circuit Court recess appointment decisions to George Wallace’s flaunting of the school integration decisions 50 years ago. Well worth a look.
In this issue: The Fight for 15 – or What? Former NLRB Chair Speaks Out Right To Work: An Excuse For Union Intimidation? SEIU Watch, Sticky Fingers, Scoreboard, Insight and more…[based on current issue] The bottom of each story contains a link to the individual post on our site. View the web-based version of this newsletter (including links and graphics) by visiting: http://lrionline.com/ink-may-2013 ********** Labor Relations Insight by Phil Wilson Why Union Members Should be Up In Arms Over “Alt-Labor” This month has been a big one for alt-labor. Alt-labor, for the uninitiated, stands for alternative labor groups. Unlike traditional unions who focus on organizing companies, alt-labor groups focus more on organizing worker populations independent from companies. While these groups have been around a long Continue reading Labor Relations INK, May 2013 by Phil Wilson Why Union Members Should be Up In Arms Over “Alt-Labor” This month has been a big one for alt-labor. Alt-labor, for the uninitiated, stands for alternative labor groups. Unlike traditional unions who focus on organizing companies, alt-labor groups focus more on organizing worker populations independent from companies. While these groups have been around a long time, they are now ascendant and the latest in a long line of “saviors” for the labor movement. Lately these groups are getting a lot of publicity. Take the Fight for Fifteen and related strikes that occurred in St. Louis, Chicago, Detroit, Oakland and – just this week – Washington D.C. These protests were big stories impacting some huge brands. And labor unions are gleeful about how these protests are proof that the alt-labor groups are making unions relevant again in a way they haven’t been for decades. These so-called “living wage” Continue reading Labor Relations Insight The recent nomination for the post of Labor Secretary fits the Obama administration’s trend of disregard for rule of law and promotion of blatant progressive agendas. This Cato Institute article summarized several of Thomas Perez’s controversial actions: 
Source: Don Ryan / AP, file Interference with the Supreme Court case of Magner v. Gallagher, getting the City of St. Paul to dismiss its appeal to prevent what would’ve been a sharp (and probably unanimous) rebuke to the federal government regarding its use of “disparate impact” racial theories in housing policy, to the detriment of minorities and poor people everywhere; Refusal to comply with subpoenas from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights; Dismissal of the Justice Department’s already-won prosecution of the Black Panthers for voter intimidation Continue reading Union Bailout Update In a claim impossible to substantiate, organizers say “hundreds” of Milwaukee fast food and retail workers walked off the job for the day on May 15. Milwaukee is the fifth city where such actions have taken place since a few dozen Manhattan fast food workers walked off their jobs on April 4. Similar protests by SEIU’s Fight for 15 campaign have occurred in Chicago, St. Louis and Detroit. (It appears actions against retailers in Oakland on May 1 were largely unrelated or the campaign is not taking credit for them.)
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