Four union pension funds covering various industries recently asked the U.S. Department of Treasury for permission to reduce the amount of benefits they pay to retirees. Two out of those four union pension funds are from Ohio.  The Ohio unions are the Southwest Ohio Regional Council of Carpenters Pension Plan and the Toledo Roofers Local No.…

An Ohio food processing company cannot ask its employees to revoke cards they signed authorizing a union to represent them. That Company federal labor law by circulating a flyer and briefing employees on how they could revoke or withdraw authorizations they had already signed for United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 75, a divided…

Union employees have Weingarten rights which allow them to have a union representative accompany them to meetings with management that could result in discipline. An employee’s Weingarten rights, however, do have limits. A recent case involved the time-critical element of drug and alcohol testing. In Fred Meyer Stores, Inc., a cashier was suspected of drinking alcohol on the job…

The former financial secretary for the union that represents workers at Cooper Tire and Rubber Company in Findlay, Ohio was placed on probation Wednesday for two years. U.S. District Court Judge Jack Zouhary also ordered Ronald G. Coldran, 56, of Findlay to repay nearly $31,000 he stole from the union. Coldran, who repaid the money prior to his indictment last November, pleaded guilty March 28th to…

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has proposed rolling back an Obama-era regulation that allowed union dues to be deducted from Medicaid checks. This would stop the automatic dues deduction of homecare workers who never neither voted for the union or receive any…

Ten thousand union workers and retirees assembled on the grounds of the Ohio State Capitol today to protest potential cuts to the underfunded pensions of some 1.5 million people. They hoped to tell how cuts to their multiemployer pension plan benefits would devastate their lives and make it difficult to pay for their homes and medical costs. Members of…