Bush Administration concealing right to join Unions

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The California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee today charged that the Bush Administration's labor board is concealing a major decision that it has made to strip millions of workers of their democratic right to join
unions.

According to various reports, the National Labor Relations Board has made a ruling in a controversial series of cases that could unfairly brand up to 8 million workers as "supervisors" and thus ineligible for union representation. Reportedly, the decision was made on Friday, but under the guise of saying it "missed" a FedEx deadline to send out the decision, the NLRB now says it will not make the ruling public until Tuesday.

"It's hard to imagine that the Bush administration 'inadvertently' missed a FedEx deadline. It raises a natural question. Did the corporations who have pushed for the decision receive advance notice while the NLRB withholds it from the labor movement, the millions of workers and patients who will be affected, and the general public?" asked Rose Ann DeMoro, executive director of CNA/NNOC which represents 70,000 RNs in 44 states.

"If the problem were just 'deadlines,' maybe they should have used a unionized firm, UPS, instead," she added.

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