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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
 Union pickets could spoil the grand opening of Revel, Atlantic City’s newest casino, on Memorial Day weekend. The Teamsters, the UAW and UNITE HERE are ready to carve up the spoils claiming Revel workers need a union before any of them has spent even one real day on their job.
UNITE HERE has been chest-bumping the new casino since it was in the planning stages over tax breaks the casino has received and a plan to “term limit” all customer service employees to five years. And all three unions are pressuring Revel for recognition without the messiness of an election or workplace democracy.
“Revel has received a proposal from the three unions to hand Revel professionals over to these unions without an election,”
Continue reading Unions Gang Up on Revel In Atlantic City
 Like their union brothers and sisters at Hostess, UNITE HERE Local 54 in Atlantic City is apparently willing to risk their members’ livelihood to force another critically under-funded union pension plan onto the back of a struggling employer.
The union is asking groups to cancel conventions booked at the Tropicana Casino and Resort because the casino’s new owners, who bailed out the failing enterprise last year, intend to stop payment into the union’s National Pension Fund. “There are lots of good choices in Atlantic City,” Local 54 president Bob McDevitt said. “Right now, Tropicana is not one of them. They are not good corporate citizens, and we are addressing that with their customers.”
The casino declared an impasse in contract talks last
Continue reading Another Union Risks Jobs for Pension Plan Bailout
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
 Unite Here doesn’t like to play by the rules, apparently because they don’t think they can win by them. When offered the chance to hold an NLRB sanctioned election for the employees of the Hyatt Santa Clara, they refused and instead set up a picket calling for a boycott of the hotel, noisily interrupting the business and its customers.
According to a statement, from the Santa Clara Hyatt, it has “proposed through the National Labor Relations Board that our associates hold such an election, but UniteHere rejected the offer,” alleging their “associates have been subjected to constant and aggressive UniteHere organizing tactics for several years, including unwelcome home visits by union leadership.”
As is typical, none of those participating in the protest were associates of the hotel, but union lackeys coordinated by
Continue reading Crybaby, Cry
In this issue:
Union Bailout Update Guilt By Association UAW On The Ropes Union Shell Games SEIU Watch, Sticky Fingers, Insight and more…
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Labor Relations Insight by Phil Wilson
You have to hand it to Wilma Liebman. In the final two weeks of her tenure as the Chair of the National Labor Relations Board she clearly decided to go out with a bang and not a whimper. On August 25th the NLRB released its final rule regarding the notification of employee rights under the National Labor Relations Act. Just this
Continue reading INK September 1, 2011
In the middle of August, UNITE HERE announced it was rallying to support the CWA in their strike against Verizon. UNITE HERE offered to:
• adopt local Verizon stores • coordinate picket support • provide food trucks at major city picket lines • raise money for the strike fund
One more example of wasted effort and squandered resources of hard-working dues payers, for a union not their own.
Richard Epstein posted earlier a prognostication that the strike would shortly end with CWA going back to work with no contract, a prediction that has since come true. In his latest post on the events, he opines that the end of the strike coupled with the fallacious board action against Boeing by NLRB general counsel Lafe Solomon may weaken President Obama’s ability to continue to bolster Big Labor.
  
 “There was absolutely no misappropriation of one penny of union funds,” Mr. Raynor said in an interview. “This is the flimsiest of charges. What is going on here is an ugly, naked exercise in political retaliation.”
Wow. Tell us how you really feel, Bruce. According to the NYT, SEIU filed charges Monday against its executive vice president, former UNITE HERE potentate and Stern BFF Bruce Raynor in a move to consolidate power around new SEIU president Mary Kay Henry. Officially, Raynor is charged with expensing $2300 in meals last year that weren’t about union business. Officially, Raynor claims those were union business meetings with Alex Dagg, a longtime female friend from UNITE now working for SEIU, but he wanted to “protect her from retaliation” so didn’t
Continue reading Raynor Charged: Accuses SEIU of Ugly Naked Nastiness
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In This Issue:
• EFCA Update • UFCW A Jobs Killer • SEIU Watch • Only In A Union • and more…
EFCA Update
Although the Senate appears to have been happy to focus on health care “reform” and thus avoid the discussion of the Employee Free Choice Act, it seems the Senate has painted themselves into a corner by pushing a version of the health care bill that includes a tax on “Cadillac” health plans, while excluding a full public option. Both the House and Big Labor are opposed to the “Cadillac tax,” and the unions were hoping for a full-monty public option.
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