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Union Bailout Update Bill Would Permit Merit Pay in Union Shops Machinists Striking Once a Member Always a Member Labor Relations Insight, Sticky Fingers and more…
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Labor Relations Insight by Phillip Wilson
What have we learned in the first week of the “ambush election” rules?
There are two questions I’ve been asked a lot over the last couple of months, and especially in the last week:
Will petitions increase after the new “ambush election” rules go into effect? How far will election times decrease under the new “ambush election” rules?
Here’s what we’ve seen
Continue reading INK May 10, 2012
 Eric Gundersen has emerged as the spokesman and leader of a new union in New York City – the Amalgamated Carpenters and Joiners. The new union broke away from the District Council of Carpenters last year after Carpenters Local 1456 was dissolved and its key leaders tossed out of the Carpenters under allegations of corruption.
Gunderson was briefly the treasurer of Local 1456 in 2010 but was forced to step down when it came to light that he had an extensive criminal record, including serving time for the brutal beating of an off-duty police officer in 1994. The case was widely publicized, as the defendants were found guilty of knocking all the teeth out of the officer who had asked them to turn down
Continue reading Why Would You Send a Known Criminal to Organize?
 “Spring training” was scheduled to begin on April 9, 2012 for the 100,000 activists that union/Occupy/socialist leaders have promised us would begin the daunting task of overthrowing our capitalist system for us. Perhaps to pour salt in the wounds of the shrinking minority who actually do pay taxes, the spring protests are focused on April 17, 2012 Tax Day with “Tax Wealth Not Work” protests to be held around the country.
The TWNW protests will target 40 evil corporations including Verizon, GE and Wells Fargo, and in something dubbed “Shareholders’ Spring,” activists will rewrite the social contract by holding crudely crafted signs across the street from shareholder meetings, perhaps sometimes (We hope!) even in hilarious costumes.
The UFCW announced last week it is part of a
Continue reading The Other Spring Training Scouting Report
Sticky Fingers
 Current charges or sentences of embezzling union officials:
Laura Dixon UBC
$170,000
John Morton Watson CFA
$150,000
Robert Misuraca USW
$17,566
Curtis Reed USW
$3,694
Cassandra Briggs LPU
$11,000
Kelly Dull AFGE
$32,119
Joseph Barnes SEIU
$4,380
Michael Bechtold RAFA
$63,000
Marqueeta Tibbs UBC
$84,903
Brianna Gates USW
$3,975
John Wayne Walker AFGE
$16,058
Ronald Witt IUOE
$150,000
http://www.nlpc.org/union-corruption-update
   Continue reading Sticky Fingers
 Actor/Producer Mark Walberg and the A&E Network have begun filming of a new reality show that will “focus on the lives and struggles of members of Boston’s Teamsters Local 25.” The union’s president Sean O’Brien, told reporters the show’s crew filmed Local 25’s membership meeting just over a week ago, (now there’s some riveting television) and that they’ll come back to get more footage as soon as all parties involved “tie up some legal issues.”
According to A&E, the show is “set in the real-life world that provided such color to films as The Fighter and The Departed.” The network says the show will also give viewers “a first hand glimpse of the most legendary union in the most aggressive and territorial city in America:
Continue reading Filming Starts on “Teamsters” Reality Show
 Current charges or sentences of embezzling union officials:
Michael Martin APWU $11,320.61 Carole Reeves sheet Metal Workers $19,000.00 Raymond Norville ILA $100,000.00 Linda Favela USW $12,510.00 Sandra Jungbluth IUOE $450,000.00
http://www.nlpc.org/union-corruption-update
Current charges or sentences of embezzling union officials:
Natasha Bever CWA
$117,378
Pamela Hinzman APWU
$26,261
Joseph Ray Gonzalez, Jr. IGUA
$13,800
Amy Pullen NALC
$4,876
Kenneth Schmidt BLET
$1,373
Federck Petro AFGE
$100,000
Graven Townsend USW
$100,000
Gerardo and Vincent Fusella, Jr. IBT
$1,000,000
Kenneth Aurecchia UA
$125,000
Joseph Meizlik SPFPA
$9,122
http://www.nlpc.org/union-corruption-update
SEIU has apparently lost the trust of a group of their California members. The group is using a website, http://www.helpsaveourstate.com/, and even an appearance on Fox News, to challenge the union over how it spends dues money, particularly when it comes to political spending and exorbitant salaries for SEIU executives.
David Bego, President and CEO of Executive Management Services and author of The Devil At My Doorstep, makes an appearance on the segment. If you’d like to read his first-hand account of fighting a corporate campaign against the SEIU, you can purchase the book here.
In another part of the state, The Mendocino County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to cut about 700 of its employees’ pay by 12.5 percent. The action was the result of over a year of failed negotiations with the SEIU. According to Second District Supervisor John
Continue reading SEIU Watch
In this issue:
Union Bailout Update Disability Fund “Rail Roaded” Pelosi Admits Anti-Boeing Bias SEIU Decert At California Hospital Teamsters Watch, Only In A Union, Sticky Fingers and more…
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Union Bailout Update
The groundswell of blowback against union hubris continues to rise, as both state and national legislators and executives work to reign in Big Labor. As the game of political tug-of-war continues, much of the energy will lapse into rhetoric, but there may be enough momentum now to see some benefit for American businesses come out of the bottom of the funnel.
Cantor
Last week, the House Committee on Education
Continue reading INK November 3, 2011
The groundswell of blowback against union hubris continues to rise, as both state and national legislators and executives work to reign in Big Labor. As the game of political tug-of-war continues, much of the energy will lapse into rhetoric, but there may be enough momentum now to see some benefit for American businesses come out of the bottom of the funnel.
Cantor
Last week, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce approved the Workforce Democracy and Fairness Act (H.R. 3094). House majority leader Eric Cantor is determined to bring the bill to the floor this winter. Among other things, the bill would:
Undo the criteria used to determine an appropriate bargaining unit established by the National Labor Relations Board’s recent Specialty Healthcare decision
Continue reading Union Bailout Update
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