Washington, DC (August 6, 2012) \u2013 In response to the National Mediation Board\u2019s proposed rule changes regarding union elections in the air and railway industries, the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, an organization that provides free assistance to thousands of workers nationwide, submitted comments faulting the Board for ignoring the law\u2019s persistent bias toward forced unionization.<\/p>\n
The Foundation\u2019s comments focus on the hurdles facing employees in the air and railway industries who wish to remove unwanted union \u201crepresentation.\u201d Under current law, the Railway Labor Act lacks an explicit procedure for ejecting a union. The Foundation\u2019s comments encourage the National Mediation Board to regularize union decertification procedures to allow rail and airline workers to more easily remove an unwanted union presence.<\/p>\n
The Foundation\u2019s comments also urge the Board to allow all workers \u2013 including new hires \u2013 to vote in unionization elections even if they were not part of the company when a petition for a unionization election was first submitted. Finally, the comments argue that the 50 percent showing of interest threshold that triggers unionization elections should be applied when new bargaining units are created as a result of a merger instead of a lower threshold supported by unions.<\/p>\n
\u201cCurrently, employees in the rail and airline industries have no clear blueprint for removing an unwanted union from their workplaces,\u201d said Patrick Semmens, Vice President of the National Right to Work Foundation. \u201cThe National Mediation Board\u2019s proposed rule changes make no effort to correct this glaring omission, which gives union bosses carte blanche to run roughshod over workers\u2019 rights once they acquire monopoly bargaining privileges.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Washington, DC (August 6, 2012) \u2013 In response to the National Mediation Board\u2019s proposed rule changes regarding union elections in the air and railway industries, the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, an organization that provides free assistance to thousands of workers nationwide, submitted comments faulting the Board for ignoring the law\u2019s persistent bias toward forced unionization.<\/p>\n
The Foundation\u2019s comments focus on the hurdles facing employees in the air and railway industries who wish to remove unwanted union \u201crepresentation.\u201d Under current law, the Railway Labor Act lacks an explicit procedure for ejecting a union. The Foundation\u2019s comments encourage the National Mediation Board to regularize union decertification procedures to allow rail and airline workers to more easily remove an unwanted union presence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n