NLRB rules in favor of Teamsters

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.conejoscountycitizen.com/v2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=648

Posted: Friday, Mar 19th, 2010
BY: STAN MOYER

DENVER - National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Administrative Law Judge William Kocol has issued his decision, in which he concluded that Harborlite Corp. violated the National Labor Relations Act by threatening to lock out its employees and then by locking them out under the threat of permanent replacement.

Teamsters Union Local 455 attorney Michael J. Belo wrote that the judge had issued his ruling Thursday, March 11. "Thus, he found the lockout to be unlawful from the start. He ordered the company to make them whole for back pay and other losses suffered during the three-month lockout."

Belo added, "Harborlite will probably appeal the decision to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in Washington, D.C. It has 28 days from March 11, the date of the administrative law judge's decision, to file an appeal with the NLRB. But this is a great start!"

Efforts to reach Teamsters Business Agent Jim Adams for comment were unsuccessful.

But no doubt the ruling means a great deal to 29 Teamsters miners, truck drivers and mill equipment operators who were locked out of work from Oct. 8 last year to shortly before an NLRB hearing on the issue was held Jan. 20 in Alamosa.

FULL story at link.