AFL-CIO Files International Complaint Charging Bush NLRB With Assault on Workers’ Rights

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AFL-CIO blog

by James Parks, Oct 25, 2007

Instead of fulfilling its mission to protect workers and promote collective bargaining, in recent years the Republican majority on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has systematically reduced the freedom of workers to join unions. The abuses have been so egregious that the AFL-CIO today took the unusual step of filing a complaint with the International Labor Organization (ILO) charging the Bush administration’s NLRB with denying workers’ rights in violation of international labor standards.

AFL-CIO President John Sweeney says:

Under Bush, America’s labor board has so failed our nation’s workers that we must now turn to the world’s international watchdogs to monitor and intervene. The Bush labor board is kryptonite for America’s workers. There is no historic precedent for such aggressive efforts by the Board to curtail workers’ rights of freedom of association and collective bargaining.

The complaint highlights numerous NLRB cases over the course of several years, including a particularly egregious set of decisions issued by the NLRB in late September. Many of the 61 decisions issued last month continue the erosion of workers’ rights begun in earlier years by the board.

In case after case, the Bush NLRB has denied workers’ rights while protecting employers. For example, in a partisan vote, the board ruled Sept. 29 that if employers voluntarily recognize a union based on union authorization cards (also known as majority sign-up), anti-union employees have 45 days to petition for a decertification election, and the employer must notify employees of this 45-day window.

Read more: http://blog.aflcio.org/2007/10/25/afl-cio-files-international-complaint-charging-bush-nlrb-with-assault-on-workers-rights/

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[OhioChick]

1. K&R

:kick:

[southtpa]

2. complaint ?

The AFL-CIO is a joke. They are so weak no one respects or fears them. Sure politicians will take their money just like they take mine. Nothing is accomplished without fear. In original democracy anyone could be the leader if your plan worked, great! If it failed the priests read your entrails to find the reason why. Democracy is great I wish we had it back! Talk about term limits. When you guarantee something with your life it's real otherwise it's only talk.

[spag68]

5. Why

Would you blame a group of unions for fighting against the rethugs. If given the chance unions educate their members, bargain for a livable wage and defend members against the corporate money people that we here work against. I repeat, why flame the AFL-CIO? Retired IBEW and proud of it.

[Jackpine Radical]

3. Wow, the AFL-CIO doesn't get it.

"Labor relations" is a hifalutin term for screwing the workers.

[ThomCat]

6. Exactly.

x(

[unkachuck]

4. nasty....

'...NLRB responded to a “rise in unlawful employer conduct” by shrinking coverage of the National Labor Relations Act, limiting the rights protected by the statute...'

....this is what the corporatists and corporations do. In order to skirt the Constitution, laws and regulations they simply 'redefine'....

....if the Constitution, laws or regulations provides you with 'x', the corporatists will deplete your 'x' then redefine anything remaining as 'x'. Your original 'x' is lost somewhere in the either while the new 'x' is corporately, systematically, redefined to meaningless....

....if the purpose of an anti-American terrorist organization is to harm or destroy Americans then many corporations and corporatists should be redefined by us, as terrorists....the healthcare industry, insurance industry, energy sector, defense industries, tobacco, to name a few, regularly due harm and kill Americans....

....these people like to play nasty....'redefining' is the way of the future....when do we get our turn to redefine?

[Coexist]

7. the world court.

nice.