Union members rally against labor relations official

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0807/081507ag1.htm

Union members held a rally Wednesday outside the National Labor Relations Board's Washington headquarters to protest the refusal of Ronald Meisburg, the board's general counsel, to negotiate with a consolidated bargaining unit.

Members of the National Labor Relations Board Union from field offices as far away as Hartford, Conn., and Peoria, Ill., attended the rally, which began at noon and lasted half an hour. They marched up and down the block handing out flyers and chanting, "Stop the jargon -- let's bargain."

"He's breaking the law," said Pamela Reynolds, a field support staffer from Hartford. "When employers break the law, we drag them into court."

Reynolds, who serves as field support staff representative to the union's executive council, said the rally was her first in more than 18 years of NLRB service. Reaction to the picketing was "mixed," she said, and headquarters employees "might be afraid to speak out because they deal with the general counsel more closely than people in the field offices."

"I'm very satisfied with the turnout," said Eric Brooks, the union's president, of the approximately 30 people at the rally. The union represents 1,041 of the board's 1,705 employees, based in Washington, D.C., and field offices across the country.

Brooks said response to the protest was positive, and that several people took flyers.

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