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School bus drivers are challenging a coercive NLRB-created rule trapping them under the \u201crepresentation\u201d of the notoriously corrupt Teamsters union, controlled by top boss Jimmy Hoffa (left).<\/i><\/p>\n
PITTSBURGH, PA<\/strong> – Two Pennsylvania school bus drivers have filed a federal lawsuit against the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) after the Board blocked their petition to hold an election to remove an unwanted union from their workplace.<\/p>\nMarcia Williams and Karen Wunz, employed by Krise Transportation, filed their lawsuit to challenge the NLRB \u201csettlement bar\u201d rule. That rule blocks employees in a union monopoly bargaining unit from holding a secret ballot election to decertify the union until an NLRB-mandated period of time after a settlement agreement between the employer and the union. The complaint asserts that this Board-created policy violates the workers\u2019 rights under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA).<\/p>\n
NLRB Blocks Pennsylvania Bus Drivers\u2019 Attempt to Oust Unwanted Union<\/strong><\/center><\/p>\nIn March, Krise Transportation and Teamsters Local 397 (the union with monopoly bargaining power over Williams, Wunz, and their coworkers) entered into a settlement agreement in an unfair labor practice case. The agreement included a clause that barred workers from challenging Teamsters Local 397 union officials\u2019 monopoly bargaining status for a year after the officials\u2019 first bargaining session with Krise. Williams and Wunz were not parties to the agreement.<\/p>\n
In May, Williams filed a petition with the NLRB to decertify Teamsters Local 397. Out of 28 Krise employees, 24 employees signed the petition to oppose union officials\u2019 representation. Despite the overwhelming opposition to the union, the NLRB Regional Director blocked their decertification petition using the \u201csettlement bar\u201d rule. Williams requested that the NLRB review the Regional Director\u2019s decision, but the NLRB upheld the dismissal and blocked the employees\u2019 decertification petition.<\/p>\n
Williams and Wunz are represented free of charge by Foundation staff attorneys in their attempt to free themselves and their coworkers from unwanted Teamsters union \u00abrepresentation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lawsuit: \u2018Settlement Bar\u2019 Rule Violates Workers\u2019 Rights<\/strong><\/center><\/p>\nIn the federal lawsuit, Foundation staff attorneys argue that the NLRB\u2019s \u201csettlement bar\u201d rule conflicts with the clear text and plain meaning of the NLRA. The NLRA requires the Board to investigate any petition in which an employee alleges that a union no longer commands a majority of the workers\u2019 support, and that if a question of representation exists the Board must direct a secret ballot election.<\/p>\n
However, the NLRB\u2019s \u201csettlement bar\u201d rule blocks Williams, Wunz, and their coworkers from raising a question concerning representation and forces them to submit to the monopoly bargaining privileges of a union they oppose. Foundation staff attorneys point out that nothing in the NLRA grants the Board the authority to issue a \u201csettlement bar\u201d rule blocking employees, even for a \u201creasonable time,\u201d from raising a question concerning representation, \u201clet alone a rule based merely on the employer\u2019s settlement of unfair labor practice charges to which the employees were not parties.\u201d<\/p>\n
Williams and Wunz ask the court to declare the NLRB\u2019s \u201csettlement bar\u201d rule a violation of the Board\u2019s Congressionally delegated authority and to order the Board to move forward with their decertification petition.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe National Labor Relations Act is premised on the notion of employee rights to associate or refrain from associating with a union. Yet the NLRB has concocted several rules that undermine the Act by blocking workers from voting out unwanted representation,\u201d commented Mark Mix, president of the National Right to Work Foundation. \u201cSuch doctrines have been restricting workers\u2019 voices for far too long. Ms. Williams and Ms. Wunz are standing up to challenge the Board\u2019s union boss-friendly practices, and the Foundation is proud to help them challenge this policy that directly contradicts their rights under federal labor law.\u201d<\/p>\n
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