National Labor Relations Board Issues Complaint Against Baumann Bus (Gross Injustices Against Worker

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/national-labor-relations-board-issues-complaint-against-baumann-bus-91944154.html

Complaint Highlights Gross Injustices Against Workers Seeking Fair Contract

FARMINGDALE, N.Y., April 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On April 21, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), after an investigation, issued a consolidated amended complaint against Baumann Bus, a Long Island transportation company that employs nearly 1,800 members of Teamsters Local 1205. The NLRB complaint alleges that the company engaged in numerous violations of federal labor law, including bad faith bargaining and interference with worker rights. Baumann drivers, monitors and mechanics voted overwhelmingly in November 2009 to join Local 1205 and are now fighting for a fair and just contract.

The complaint charges that the Baumann Bus Company has been:

* Interfering with, restraining and coercing employees in the exercise of the rights guaranteed in the National Labor Relations Act;
* Discriminating in regard to the hire and tenure or terms and conditions of employment of its employees, thereby discouraging membership in a labor organization in violation of the Act; and
* Failing and refusing to bargain collectively and in good faith with the Union.


After five months of negotiations, the company has yet to make an economic proposal, has been unresponsive to workers' proposals and has not made one economic counter-offer to the workers' economic proposals after nine negotiation sessions. The company negotiators have also been largely unavailable to meet and have cancelled a number of scheduled negotiations.

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