Pursuant to its first collective bargaining agreement, The Intercept, a New York based on-line news site, must interview at least two minority job candidates for each open position. Women, people of color, or members of LGBTQ community must be considered for positions.  Both Facebook and Amazon announced in May that they have adopted similar policies. Quotas are…

Members of the Building Trades Labor Coalition, which has supported the Trump administration’s push to expand apprenticeship training programs, say they are “livid” and “flabbergasted” that Senate Democrats did not extend them an invitation to participate in a upcoming committee hearing on modernizing apprenticeships. In the days leading up to the hearing, the building unions are now reaching above Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash.), the…

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…