House Committee on the Workforce Produces Scathing Report on NRLB Decisio

[Omaha Steve]

Full story: http://www.uswa.org/uswa/program/content/3128.php

House Committee on Education and the Workforce Produces Scathing Report on NRLB Decisions


Report Points to Unfair and Inconsistent Rulings in Favor of Employers


The Democratic staff led by Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.), ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, have produced a 25-page report detailing how the rulings of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) have either taken away or "severely restricted" the rights of millions of workers to organize into unions over the past five years.


"President Bush has filled the NLRB with anti-union members who have made it more difficult for workers to organize a labor union," Miller said in a statement releasing the report, Workers' Rights Under Attack by Bush Administration: President Bush's National Labor Relations Board Rolls Back Labor Protections. The NLRB has "used double standards, rationales, and unfair, inconsistent rulings to give employers more power over workers," he said.

[rodeodance]

1. wwill this report even see the light of day. sorry for the

pesimistic attitude---it just seems like the Dems work hard at reports like this and it is ignorned by the media.

[Sherman A1]

2. Organized Labor has been under attack

since the Reagan years. When he fired the Air Traffic Controllers things really started going downhill.

[Omaha Steve]

3. PATCO 25th Strike Anniversary

Full article: http://lnn.laborstart.org/more.php?id=758_0_1_0_M

PATCO 25th Strike Anniversary

PATCO Controllers still “Locked Out” and discriminated against by the FAA.

PRESS RELEASE – July 14, 2006

PATCO 25th Strike Anniversary

Convention/ Reunion, August 2-3, 2006

Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino

Hollywood, Florida

The Reagan Administration Order: “Return to work or you’re Fired!”

They were labeled criminals, traitors, oath breakers and lawbreakers by the Federal government, but that was the Governments spin to distract from the real issue of what was happening behind the scenes with the professionals who worked in one of the most stressful jobs in the world…Air Traffic Control. The government’s intent was never to resolve, or seriously negotiate the working conditions of the PATCO Controllers, but to get rid of them. Their offer of “Return to Work or You’re Fired!”, was the Reagan message to organized labor that has echoed for over a quarter of a century.

Twenty five years ago, on August 3, 1981, and after several months of extensive fruitless contract negotiations with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Union (PATCO) was forced to call a nationwide strike in its efforts to try and improve the working conditions for Air Traffic Controllers. President Reagan’s, union busting, response to the strikers was to arrest and jail hundreds of them, fire over 11,541 highly skilled professionals, and ban them, for life, from ever returning to their profession. In the few months that followed, the government’s final kill was to decertify and destroy the union, PATCO.