Recent NLRB Decisions Alleged to "Drastically Revoke Protections for Workers"
A number of recent decisions by the National Labor Relations Board "drastically revoke protections for workers," according to American Rights At Work's Workers' Rights Watch: Eye on the NLRB. Two decisions in particular were cited as creating additional procedural barriers for workers who have been illegally fired.
First, the NLRB shifted the burden from employers to employees to prove that they adequately searched for work after being improperly fired in order to receive back pay. The Board reversed a 45-year-old precedent that previously had required employers to prove that employees failed to take reasonable steps to find work after they were fired.
Second, in what Workers' Rights Watch characterized as a way to make it easier for "employers to fire union supporters to chill an organizing effort," if a worker waited for more than two weeks to seek interim employment after being illegally fired, the employee will now lose eligibility for back pay for that period.
Written By:Timothy Arnold On November 15, 2007 6:04 PM
The card check method of determing union representation is not "empoyee free choice" by any means. It is union and pro union intimidation and peer pressure. The secret ballot is sacred to are democracy and should not be stolen from us by unions desperate for new members. I have seen union orginizers mislead employees by telling them the cards they sign are not a decision for the union, but to allow discussion and a vote. The big union push for the card check method is not for worker freedom, but for membership to the most unaccountable and corrupt institutions in America, DON"T FALL FOR IT!!!