Unwittingly, Obama’s NLRB Moves To Put Final Nail In Private-Sector Unions’ Coffin

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  March 23rd at 08:00 AM  | 

For all of the pro-union leanings of President Obama’s National Labor Relations Board appointees, the NLRB is, unwittingly, about to do something that those of us in the preventive labor relations field have been doing for years: Educate employees that they don’t need to pay dues to a union in order to exercise their rights. In 1935, Congress passed the National Labor Relations Act.  The cornerstone | Read More »

California Moving to Strip Secret Ballots from Farm Workers, Fine Employers

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  March 28th at 10:00 AM  | 

With the hallucinogenically-named Employee Free Choice Act “basically dead” for now, union bosses are still finding ways to try to fill their coffers with new members any way they can. At the state level, since agricultural workers are excluded from the National Labor Relations Act, the United Farm Workers is using the farm worker exemption to its advantage—and counting on newly-elected Democrat Governor Jerry Brown | Read More »