NLRB Forces CNN to Rehire and Pay Back Wages to 100 Union Workers Who were Terminated 10 Years Ago
By Management Labor Lawyer | | NLRB
In 2003, CNN terminated its relationship with its unionized subcontractor Team Video Services, LLC (TVS). TVS provided CNN with camera crews and other technicians. CNN then created new, non-union positions to replace the TVS workers and hired about 2/3 of TVS’s employees for those positions. The NLRB did not believe CNN’s argument that it terminated…
Read More Union Thugs Face Combined 170 Years in Prison for Strong-Arming Non-Union Contractors Into Hiring Union Labor
By Management Labor Lawyer | | NLRB
Philadelphia Ironworker business agent Francis O’Donnell and union member William Gillin pled guilty to multiple counts of setting fires, assault, sabotage, and extortion in an effort to force non-union construction contractors to hire union labor. The men were ringleaders for a group of union members called the “Shadow Gang” that would illegally enter and cause…
Read More Requiring 401(k) Contributions for All Non-Union Employees is an Unlawful Promise of Benefits During a Decertification Campaign because the Handbook said the Company Reserved the Right to Modify or Terminate Retirement Plans
By Management Labor Lawyer | | NLRB
In 1999, TCI Cablevision of Washington held that an employer did not interfere with an election by accurately telling employees the company would be required under its existing benefit plans to automatically cover employees if they decertified a union. Following this precedent, UniFirst recently told its employees that they would receive 401(k) benefits and a…
Read More Steelworkers Playbook on How They Plan to Reform Labor Law
By Management Labor Lawyer | | NLRB
The United Steelworkers of America recently wrapped its annual convention where it called for “true labor law reform in the United States” and where it vowed to enact these changes: Workers should have a right to a representation election within 30 days of filing a petition for one Workers should have access to neutral voting…
Read More The Laborers Union Guilty of Union Busting
By Management Labor Lawyer | | NLRB
The Laborers International Union of North America (LiUNA and Laborers) did not hire a union contractor to oversee a massive renovation at its Washington D.C. headquarters. The union awarded a major renovation on its $28 million downtown office building to Davis Construction. Adding insult to injury, Davis Construction is in the midst of a labor…
Read More Subway Franchise Employees Vote In Favor of Union Validating Union’s Efforts to Organize Fast Food Industry
By Management Labor Lawyer | | NLRB
Employees of a Subway franchise in Bloomsbury, N.J. voted 8-5 to join the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union (RWDSU) Local 108. While this is great fodder for unions to hark the success of its 3-year effort to organize the fast food industry, these 13 employees are hardly the poster children for a successful campaign.…
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