November 11, 2010 News Highlights
Top News:
WSJ: Labor Board's Recent Decisions Tilt in Favor of Unions
Nov 11, 2010
Unions are increasingly looking to the National Labor Relations Board to seek favorable workplace rulings, and the agency is showing a willingness to reopen matters previously decided in favor of employers.
Union leaders pushed earlier this year to get two new Democratic members on the labor-relations board, saying they needed to level the playing field with employers after years of decisions by the Republican-controlled board that unions said hampered their efforts to organize workers.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704804504575606872095817474.html
CDW in the News:
Legislators, take note: Voters cross-check card check
By Brian Worth
Nov 10, 2010
The card check fight was also emblematic of larger concerns. According to a Coalition for a Democratic Workplace national poll conducted by WomanTrend and surveying those casting ballots on election day, Americans want big government and big labor to stop blocking job creation.
News of Note:
Union Card Checkmate
Wall Street Journal
Nov 9, 2010
Four states—Arizona, South Carolina, South Dakota and Utah—voted on "save our secret ballot" measures that would require secret elections and effectively outlaw card check as a means to certify a union. In Arizona and Utah the measures passed with 60% of the vote. In South Dakota the margin of victory was 79% and in South Carolina it was 86%.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704353504575596790376536822.html
Card check, RIP
Las Vegas Review-Journal
Nov 5, 2010
The GOP takeover of the House -- not to mention the national repudiation of the Obama agenda undergirding Tuesday's election results -- means that "card check" is dead for now in Congress.
http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/card-check--rip-106751328.html
NLRB News:
The Fine Line Between Student and Employee
The Cornell Daily Sun
Nov 11, 2010
Last week's decision by the National Labor Relations Board to reconsider its position on allowing graduate student unionization awakened parties on both sides of an old debate: Should graduate students be considered employees, students or some gray area in between the two? Obviously, there is no easy answer, but the NLRB’s ruling will have a dramatic impact on every university.
http://www.cornellsun.com/section/opinion/content/2010/11/11/fine-line-between-student-and-employee
NYT: Company Accused of Firing Over Facebook Post
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
Nov 8, 2010
In what labor officials and lawyers view as a ground-breaking case involving workers and social media, the National Labor Relations Board has accused a company of illegally firing an employee after she criticized her supervisor on her Facebook page.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/09/business/09facebook.html
George Will: 2010 a banner year for conservatives
Nov 11, 2010
Unionized public employees outnumber unionized private-sector workers, so unions desperately desire "card check" legislation. It would make it easier to herd private-sector workers into unions by abolishing the right to secret ballots in unionization votes. The 2010 elections made "card check" as dead as government subsidies for broadcast journalism may soon be.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/10/AR2010111005499.html
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