Posts Tagged ‘National Mediation Board’
“Mini Card Check” Is Major Problem
John Gizzi over at Human Events writes about efforts by the Obama Administration and others to push “mini card check” — his term for the effort by the National Mediation Board to approve a regulation that would change the way in which majorities airline and railroad workers approve a new union:
In other words, only those airline and railway workers who choose to vote on whether they want to organize a union will make that decision. One does not have to be an authority on union organizing to guess that this change of rules makes it much easier for labor leaders to expand union membership, thus enhancing their powers.
Is Mediation Board Rule Precursor To Card Check?
We noted in our inbox, but sort of laughed off, this article by a top union president claiming that the negative reaction to the Administration decision to make it easier for unions to organize additional workers in the airline and railroad industries should mean, through some contorted logic, that employers and proponents of sound economic policy should actually support card check.
The logic — such as it is — is as follows:
The anti-worker-rights groups wanted the NMB to retain a different kind of election
EFCA’s Camel Nose Under Tent
You shouldn’t miss widely distributed blogger Warner Todd Huston’s take on the recent Obama Administration decision to change a decades-old rule on how unions are formed in the airline and railroad industries. He warns it’s “Obama’s first stealth EFCA styled rules implementation,” which means it’s a good reminder that the Employee Free Choice Act is still looming.
Another Card Check Bankshot?
Mark Tapscott writes:
Big Labor is covering its bets against the likelihood that President Obama and the Democratic majority in Congress won’t be able to deliver Card Check to kill the secret ballot in workplace representation elections. The sidebet is at the three-member National Mediation Board.
Never heard of it? Well, the NMB was established by FDR during the New Deal to mediate labor-management disputes in the railroad industry, then had its regulatory purview expanded to include the airline industry. The NMB has the power to impose compulsory arbitration when labor and management are unable to reach a settlement within 30 days.
Two of the three members now on the NMB are former union officials, Harry Hoglander and Linda Puchala, who came to the board from, respectively, the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) and Association of Flight Attendants (AFA) unions. President Obama appointed Puchala.
Certainly something to keep an eye on.
