PUBLIC COMMENTS ON NLRB RULE DUE BY FEBRUARY 22nd

PUBLIC COMMENTS ON PROPOSED NLRB RULE DUE BY FEB. 22
Proposed Rule Would Require ALL Employers to Post Notices

Encouraging Employees to Organize

All National, State, and Local Electrical Trade Associations, ALL Small Business's and the public have until Tuesday, February 22 to submit comments on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) proposed rule requiring employers to post notices informing employees of their rights to bargain collectively, distribute union literature, or engage in other union activities without reprisal.

If you would like to submit your own comments, you may use this template as a guide. If you draft your own comments, make sure to include “RIN (3412-AA07)” on the comments. Submit your comments by visiting http://www.regulations.gov and selecting “Proposed Rule” as the Document Type and searching for 3142-AA07.

ALL private-sector employers (including labor organizations) whose workplaces fall under the National Labor Relations Act NLRA would be required to post the employee rights notice where other workplace notices are typically posted. If an employer communicates with employees primarily by email or other electronic means, the notice would be posted electronically as well.
The NLRB issued a statement saying: "The intended effects of this action are to increase knowledge of the NLRA among employees, to better enable the exercise of rights under the statute, and to promote statutory compliance by employers and unions."
An NLRB News Release on the Proposed Rule can be found here, and a sample of the notice can be viewed here.

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ALERT!!! NLRB Rule Will Require ALL Businesses to Alert Workers to Union Rights

A New National Labor Relations Board Rule Will Require "ALL" Businesses to Alert Workers to Union Rights

"Please Submit Your Comments On This Egregious Rule Today"

A Web Link Where You Can Make Your Comments Is Provided Below !!!!

In a move designed to help boost unions, the National Labor Relations Board on Tuesday proposed a new rule requiring private-sector employers to post notices telling workers about their right to unionize.

The Proposed Rule is sure to please Unions that are struggling to maintain membership, but will surely result in objections from businesses. Under the rule, businesses would be mandated to notify their employees about their union rights by posting a Department of Labor Appoved Poster regardless of whether a union already exists in the workplace.

Employees would have to be notified about their rights to form or join a union and to bargain collectively with their company for the purposes of improving pay and working conditions.

The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking was published in the Federal Register on December 22, 2010 and members of the public can submit comments on the proposal for 60 days, until February 22, 2011.

Under the NPRM, employers would face various sanctions for failing to post the notice, including:

• Unfair Labor practice charges
• Time limits for filing other unfair labor practice charges against the employer extended
• The NLRB utilizing the failure to post the notice as evidence of unlawful motive in other unfair labor practice cases To View The DOL Poster, Click Here
  The NLRB, in explaining the idea, wrote in the proposed rule that it was concerned many employees are "unaware" of their rights under the National Labor Relations Act.

Submit Your Comments To The NLRB On The Proposed Rule Here  

The new rule could take effect in as soon as 60 days

View Proposed Rule Here

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New Jersey-IEC Joins CDW brief In Union Trespass Case

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

New Jersey-IEC Joins The CDW Brief In Union Trespass Case

New Jersey-IEC has Joined one hundred forty (140) other organizations that have signed on to the CDW amicus brief in the National Labor Relations Board case Roundy’s Inc. And Milwaukee Building and Construction Trade Council.  

The issue in the Roundy's case is whether employers are required to allow non-employee union agents to trespass on the workplace for the purpose of harming the employer's business if the employer has allowed workplace access to other non-employee individuals or groups that do not intend to harm the business (such as the United Way, blood drives, girl scouts, etc.). 

The Board's decision in this matter has an obvious impact on the ability of employers to shield customers, clients and employees from interference and harassment by non-employee union agents

The NLRB Case Notice Can Be Viewed Here

The Coalition for a Democratic Workplace (CDW) is a coalition of workers, employers, associations and organizations who are fighting to protect the right to a federally supervised private ballot when workers are deciding whether or not to join a union. http://www.myprivateballot.com/

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2010: A Disastrous Year For Unions

Election Year Was Disastrous For Unions

As the year ends, many people are looking back on 2010 as a historic time of political upheaval. But one of the year’s biggest political developments has been mostly overlooked.

If voters sent one message loudly and consistently, it is this: They do not like unions. The American electorate availed itself of almost every chance to take a whack at organized labor.

Big Labor has been pushing hard in Congress to pass Card Check, which eliminates secret ballots in workplace elections, allowing organizers to identify and bully workers opposed to unionizing. But voters in four states ratified anti-Card Check initiatives requiring secret ballots in workplace elections.

With public-sector union pension plans around the country sinking under trillions of dollars of debt, six states, Alabama, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee and Wisconsin, elected governors who promised to transfer state employees from costly defined-benefit pension plans to 401(k) contribution plans.

Ohio's incoming Republican Gov. John Kaisch is talking about eliminating laws dictating union-scale wages for public projects and dropping certain bargaining privileges for police and firefighter unions. In Wisconsin, Gov.-elect Scott Walker recently said he is considering abolishing public-sector unions.

California voters also showed they were not pleased with private-sector unions. At 12% unemployment, local unions killed a deal to build a billion-dollar development in Southern California that would have created 12,000 jobs.

In New Jersey, voters approved only 41 percent of the 538 proposed budgets in the state’s annual school election. Governor Chris Christie has introduced a property tax tool kit aimed at reducing property taxes but the Democratically controlled Assembly and Senate have so far failed to act.

Despite the clear messages being sent, unions are more influential than ever with the apparently oblivious Democrats in Washington. Liberal political appointees on the National Labor Relations Board recently issued a decision allowing unions to forgo secret ballots in certain circumstances, and recently published a rule mandating the majority of private employers to post the rights of workers to organize.

President Obama Shows His Affection
For Unions With AFL/CIO
President Richard Trumka

Obama has rolled back transparency requirements for unions and encouraged project labor agreements on $140 billion in stimulus projects. In Congress, the $813 billion stimulus bill and subsequent $26 billion teacher unions bailout kept public-sector unions flush even as the private sector was drowning.

These measures are Obama’s payback to organized labor, which spent more than $200 million trying to protect Democrats in the midterm election. But how many more elections do Democrats and unions have to lose before they start heeding the will of the people?

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Eating Their Own: 600 IBEW Members Picket Carpenters’ Union Hall

A large protest over union recognition attracted about 600 IBEW workers outside of a union hall on Hampton Ave. in south St. Louis.

Nationwide, unemployment reached 9.8% last week and in the construction industry the unemployment rate is nearly 19%. This is causing union bosses to think ‘outside the box’ on how to get work for their unemployed members, even if it includes stepping on another union.

In April, the Carpenters’ union in St. Louis did what, in the union building trades, is the unthinkable, they set up their own electrical union to compete with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW).

The IBEW in turn launched a counter-offensive. On Tuesday evening, the IBEW hit the Carpenters’ Union hall with 600 picketers to protest the encroachment.

Could this happen in New Jersey? There is no way to know, but stay tuned.

Hows That For Solidarity.
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Were Labor Unions Ever Necessary?

A Common argument made by some Republicans and Conservatives is that labor unions were necessary in society a hundred years ago, but they are no longer needed in today’s workplace.

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka

This argument, however, has many flaws. When looking deep into the history of the labor movement, unless you support a society modeled closely around that of the U.S.S.R., labor unions were not just unnecessary a hundred years ago, but have created lasting damage and are still continuing to wreak havoc across the nation.

Many fail to see the downside of the American labor movement at the time of its inception. Few remember that it was a product of the liberal progressive movement, which created many of the problems in society that we deal with today.

Just take a look at the progress that the labor unions have made in their short history. From just 90 years ago, labor unions have gone from trying to “protect” the workers that they represented to taking complete control of the companies that they were “protecting” them from. In essence, they have a track record of completely dismantling the companies that they have set up shop in.

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Unions Try to Prop Up Democrats

Obama and the Democrat majority have spent a great deal of time complaining about various business backed groups, accusing them of interfering in campaigns across the country. While they continue to whine about others, Democrats are relying increasingly more and more on another outside group to help them survive: organized labor.

In a recent memo, the political director of the AFL-CIO claims that any surprise Democratic wins on November 2nd will be the result of their unprecedented efforts over the last few weeks. “Outside the political party committees themselves, we have the largest political mobilization operation in the country,” says Karen Ackerman in a memo obtained by the NY Times.

The final result of the unions efforts to mobilize will not be known until November 3rd, however the large majority of polls continue to show little enthusiasm among Democrat voters compared with Republican and Independent voters. Many of the competitive races are in areas where union membership is low.



NEVER FORGET

Unfortunately union leadership can not comprehend that the results of the Nov. 2nd election will have everything to do with the economy that continues to stagnate under  the Democrats insistence on overreaching. The large majority of legislation the Democrats have railroaded through over the last 2 years has failed miserably, and has either made the economy worse or extended this unprecedented recession. The voting public is now begining to recognize that.  



If you reject policies effecting your business dictated to the Majority by Organized Labor, make sure you get out and vote, encourage your peers, employees, friends, and family members, all get out and vote on November 2nd.


A talking point that we have continued to see and hear is that the Republicans are the party of NO. we concede that they are however their talking point convenielty leave out the last half of that statement. Republicans are the party of No, "No to Bad Legisalation". 

Project Labor Agreements (PLA) Rob Taxpayers

I recently read an article on the new Mayor of Bayonne Mark Smith. His arbitrary and false comments in his Inauguration Speach on Project Labor Agreements are worth noting.  "When it comes to the rights of working men and women, we have not compromised. We support the right of workers to organize. We support project labor agreements. And we believe that fully qualified, fully trained union labor makes projects better and safer, on budget and on time. We support organized labor and we believe that when people make a living wage, they build stronger families, and make better citizens which ultimately makes for a better Bayonne."

His statement is to say that Projects (pictured) built by fully qualified, fully trained Merit Shop labor somehow do not make projects better and safer, and do not bring project in on budget and on time which is a naive and ridiculous statement at best. He also uses the term living wage which is an arbitrary term created by unions and adopted by Democrat Politicians and used freely as if it is a definable term.  

Favoritism for a small group of workers at the expense of the vast majority of workers is wrong and costly to the taxpaying public. The indisputable truth is when you reduce competition you increase costs.

The farce is that PLA's promote labor peace by barring workers from striking, HELLO! Merit shop workers don’t go on strike and they do not promote violence. So why is there a need for a provision for labor peace? Or could it be that union workers have a reputation for promoting violence when they price themselves out of a project and that project is then awarded to a Merit Shop Contractor.

Project Labor agreements violate the rights of the vast majority of fully qualified, fully trained Merit Shop construction workers who build upwards of 80% of all construction projects in the state of New Jersey. Merit Shop Contractors and their employees represent the vast majority, all of whom pay taxes and contribute to society.  They Choose not to belong to a union, and because they choose not to belong to a union they are banned from working on a project burdened by a Project Labor Agreement that their taxes are paying for.

PLA projects do not cost more merely because of the wage that is paid. Wages are rarely an issue. They cost more because of the antiquated union work rules, reduced productivity by union labor vs Merit Shop labor, and the egregious benefit packages that are forced to be paid on these projects resulting in an increased cost of between 30% and 50% to taxpayers.

 

A reasonable benefit package including Health Care, Retirement Plan, Vacation, Paid Holidays and more cost an employer between $10 and $20 per hour, yet the union benefit rate imposed on Project Labor Agreements and also mandated by the States Prevailing Wage is upwards of $36.00 per hour with no justification of what the difference represents.  

 
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