Chicago, IL (June 3, 2019)<\/strong> \u2013 An employee at Langer Transport Corporation\u2019s Joliet, IL, facility has asked the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to review a ruling by NLRB Region 13 that blocks workers at the company from holding a vote to remove the Teamsters from their workplace.<\/p>\nAngelika Van Meeteren\u2019s petition comes after the Teamsters union officials and Langer last October settled earlier unfair labor practice charges filed by the union against Langer. The agreement included a \u201csettlement bar\u201d clause immunizing the union from any decertification attempts for an entire year.<\/p>\n
Van Meeteren and her coworkers who want the decertification vote were not parties to the agreement. Although not authorized by the National Labor Relations Act, prior NLRB actions created the so-called \u201csettlement bar\u201d doctrine, which denies workers their right to hold a vote to remove a union for a period of time after the settlement of charges filed against the employer. The bar is often imposed even when the settlement does not contain any admission that the employer violated the law.<\/p>\n
Van Meeteren\u2019s petition, which was filed with free legal assistance from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, argues that settlement decertification bars \u201chave no basis in the [National Labor Relations] Act\u201d and \u201coffend basic principles of justice\u201d because they prevent employees from exercising their right to hold a decertification vote simply because a company and a union came to an agreement forbidding it — without any input from the employees. That right is guarded by Section 7 of the NLRA, which explicitly protects \u201cthe right to refrain from\u201d union representation.<\/p>\n
Foundation staff attorneys have fought \u201csettlement bars\u201d on a number of fronts, most recently in a federal lawsuit filed for Marcia Williams and Karen Wunz, two Pennsylvania school bus drivers whose decertification petition was blocked by the NLRB after their employer Krise Transportation came to a settlement with Teamsters Local 397. That lawsuit was eventually deemed moot, because the bar expired while the litigation was proceeding, thus allowing the workers to hold a vote. The Foundation also sent a letter to the NLRB last December requesting that future rulemaking by the Board address \u201csettlement bars\u201d and their inherent conflicts with the NLRA.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe NLRB-concocted \u2018settlement bar\u2019 doctrine is an assault on fundamental fairness by restricting workers\u2019 legal right to remove an unpopular union solely because of unproven allegations made against their employer by union officials,\u201d commented National Right to Work President Mark Mix. \u201cThe Act is supposed to protect the right of workers to join or reject a union. Punishing Angelika Van Meeteren and her coworkers by blocking their petition to vote out a union they oppose, despite the fact no one even alleges the workers broke any law, is totally contrary to that fundamental purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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