Milwaukee, Wisc. (June 3, 2019)<\/strong> \u2013 A clerical employee at trucking company USF Holland\u2019s Milwaukee, WI facility has just asked the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to overturn an NLRB Regional Director\u2019s dismissal of her petition to hold a vote to decertify the Teamsters Local 200 union as the monopoly bargaining agent at her workplace.<\/p>\nDiane Damask\u2019s petition, filed with free legal assistance from National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation staff attorneys, challenges the so-called \u201cmerger doctrine,\u201d which allows union officials to \u201cmerge\u201d employees in a small bargaining unit into a much larger one to block them from voting to decertify the union. Damask\u2019s request for review notes that the Teamsters performed such a scheme at her small clerical office in an agreement with USF Holland \u2013 without fully explaining the ramifications to the employees.<\/p>\n
According to the request for review, Region 18\u2019s dismissal of her petition wrongly stifles her rights because it \u201cmakes it effectively impossible for employees in such mega-units to exercise their\u2026rights to decertify a union through a secret ballot election\u201d under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). As the petition points out, this is not the first time the workers\u2019 statutory rights to hold a decertification election to remove a union they oppose has been stifled by internal NLRB rules not mandated by the NLRA.<\/p>\n
The Teamsters originally had scheduled an NLRB-supervised unionization election in January 2018, but then cancelled the vote after cutting a backroom deal with USF Holland to bypass the protections of a secret ballot vote, and instead unionize the workers through the coercive \u201ccard check\u201d process. Upset by the situation, Damask and her colleagues quickly circulated a petition to trigger a secret ballot decertification vote only to be told by the NLRB that \u2013 under the controversial \u201cvoluntary recognition\u201d bar adopted by the Obama NLRB \u2013 the workers would have to wait up to a full year before they could file a petition.<\/p>\n
Having waited a full year for the NLRB-created \u201cbar\u201d after a card check to expire, now the workers \u2013 a majority of whom signed the decertification petition \u2013 find themselves blocked again from holding a secret ballot vote by a merger agreement over which they had no real say. In fact, it was not until after Damask had her decertification petition rejected that she learned that, according the merger agreement, she and her eight coworkers at their facility were now deemed part of a nationwide \u201cmega-unit\u201d of approximately 24,000 employees working for multiple employers.<\/p>\n
Because triggering a decertification vote requires the signatures of thirty percent of workers in the bargaining unit, under the \u201cmerger\u201d such a petition is virtually impossible as she would need to collect 7,000 signatures from workers across the country she has no way of even locating.<\/p>\n
Damask\u2019s petition argues that the Teamsters and USF Holland improperly \u201c\u2018waived\u2019 the Milwaukee clerical employees\u2019 rights under the [NLRA] to decertify an unwanted union\u201d and that \u201cif the\u2026clerical employees constituted a separate appropriate unit for purposes of selecting the Teamsters to represent them\u2026the Board should still consider them a(n)\u2026appropriate unit for purposes of removing the union.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis case shows how union bosses, aided by biased NLRB-concocted rules, can trap workers in union ranks for years even when a majority of the workers want out,\u201d said National Right to Work President Mark Mix. \u201cIt\u2019s time for the NLRB to stop dragging its feet and reform its arbitrary rules, including the so-called \u2018merger doctrine,\u2019 that are being used to eviscerate workers\u2019 statutory right under the National Labor Relations Act to hold a vote to remove a union opposed by a majority of employees.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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