NLRB Issues Rule to Speed up Union Organizing

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-ABC News

By TOM RAUM

The National Labor Relations Board issued a final rule on Friday aimed at modernizing and streamlining the union election process.

The new rule will shorten the time between when an election is ordered and the election is held, eliminating a previous 25-day waiting period. And it seeks to reduce litigation that can be used to stall elections. It will also require employers to furnish union organizers with email addresses and phone numbers of workers.

The changes are a win for unions, which have long complained the process is too long. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said the NLRB's "modest but important reforms" will help reduce delays and make it easier for workers to vote on forming a union. "Strengthening protections for workers seeking to come together and bargain collectively is critical to workers winning much-deserved wage gains and improving their lives," he said.

But the rule, many months in the making, has generated criticism from the business community and from many Republicans.

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Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/nlrb-issues-rule-speed-union-organizing-27555675

[turbinetree]

1. Yeah

Great News, finally the help that workers need, to quit the slide of union busting since Ronald Reagan began this process in 1980

[SoapBox]

2. I wonder if some employers saw this coming...

Recently Delta told their Flight Attendants, that if a name/indication came up on their caller ID, to not answer the call because it was a union organizing call.

A shorter period of time also will make it more difficult for businesses that spend millions with anti-union/union busting contract companies, to intimidate and manipulate workers before the vote.

[Derek V]

3. K&R

And screw the business community!

[Raine1967]

4. Did you forget the sarcasm thingy? nt

[Derek V]

5. No, because I wasn't being sarcastic!

Our Glorious Business Community has been screwing us into the ground since Glass-Steagall was repealed.

[Raine1967]

6. Ahh ok, I understand know. My apology. I thought

you were against this move by the NLRB because it would screw the business community and you were anti Union, My apologies.

[Derek V]

7. Apology Accepted, my friend!

I must say you had me scratching my head for a minute.