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National Labor Relations Board
Workers Rights
Case dismissed: Scabby the rat beats the rap
Scabby is 12' tall and has red eyes, fangs, and claws. It may be scary looking, but the beloved inflatable is not an outlaw, the NLRB says.
National
U.S. Senate confirms three union attorneys to NLRB
The Senate confirmation votes, mostly along party lines, will give the NLRB a worker-friendly majority once again.
Workers Rights
Precision Castparts must recognize Machinists Union
Precision—a key Boeing supplier—has lost its marathon effort to avoid recognizing the choice of a group of welders to unionize.
Union Organizing
Wave of unionization sweeps through Washington newspapers
Five Washington newspapers have unionized recently, the latest in a nationwide surge among print and online journalists under way since 2015.
Workers Rights
Government report says NLRB is understaffed
According to a March 29 report, the drop has been dramatic. Since 2010 the NLRB has lost 452 employees, or 26%.
Workers Rights
NLRB drops Trump rule that would have blocked graduate student unions
Trump NLRB appointees had declared that student teaching assistants aren't employees under the National Labor Relations Act.
National
A fix for America’s broken labor law
Congress may soon consider the most game-changing pro-union legislation in 80 years. The PRO Act would restore workers’ right to unionize.
Workers Rights
New NLRB acting attorney backs off lawsuit against Scabby the Rat
The previous general counsel, a management-side labor lawyer appointed by Trump, tried to muzzle Scabby the Rat as soon as he took office.
Workers Rights
Secret audio shows Columbia Sportswear plot to fire unionist
In the recordings, managers list the names of union supporters they want to fire and talk about how to build a case that will stand up to NLRB scrutiny.
Workers Rights
Trump NLRB sues Oregon to preserve employers right to hold mandatory anti-union meetings
On July 14 a federal court will hear the government's challenge to the state law, which was passed in 2009.
Union Organizing
Citing coronavirus, Trump-appointed NLRB suspends all union elections
Even mail ballots are out, because NLRB agents count them in front of observers; verifying them while maintaining six feet of distance could be a challenge.
Workers Rights
CNN pays $76 million to settle union-busting complaint
It’s the biggest settlement in the 84-year history of the National Labor Relations Board.
Union Organizing
Veterans Nursing Home workers join United Steelworkers
A group of 213 workers at a Lebanon, Oregon, nursing home for veterans won a union May 20.
Workers Rights
Trump appointee wants to ban Scabby the Rat
Standing 25 feet tall, with scary red eyes and yellow fangs, Scabby the Rat is a union hero and an eye-catching sign of a labor dispute.
Union Organizing
Machinists win toehold at Boeing South Carolina plant
South Carolina is the least-unionized state in the nation, with just 2.6 percent of workers in a union, and its governor wants to keep it that way.
Union Organizing
Burgerville Workers Union expects to call for a union election
If a majority votes yes at the 92nd and Powell location, it could be the nation's first official union at a fast food chain.
Workers Rights
Trump NLRB majority moves fast to reverse Obama-era decisions
In just three months, the new Board has reversed major gains.
Workers Rights
Trump NLRB majority puts Machinists election win at Precision Castparts back in legal limbo
The ruling has national ramifications, but whether the welders can unionize is again up to the Seattle NLRB office.
Workers Rights
Operating Engineers Local 701 picket at Gresham Wastewater Treatment Plant
A new complaint says a contractor, Veolia North America, broke federal labor law.
Worker safety
Abhe & Svoboda fires union salt amid safety complaints
Nonunion paint contractor Abhe & Svoboda faces civil rights, labor and safety complaints on a $22 million Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) painting project underneath the Ross Island Bridge.
