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Teamsters ordered not to “threaten to kill … sexually assault employees or their family members … use racial epithets … [much more]”

March 24, 2020 by NILRR Staff

Just a few snippets from a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) order that the Teamsters union was ordered to post. As the National Institute for Labor Relations Research obtains more NLRB posters we will keep adding to our newly created list of Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) related NLRB-ordered posters. This list should help illustrate…(Read More)

SEIU Controller Uses Dues for his Own Scheme

March 12, 2020 by CLJ

As Service Employee International Union (SEIU) officials gear up to spend $150 million in forced dues to defeat President Trump in this year’s elections, the theft of approximately $1 million in forced dues adds insult to injury. In 2018, SEIU spent almost $40 million on political activity, more than they spent on…(Read More)

Right to Work’s Job-Growth Edge: Almost 2-to-1

March 11, 2020 by Stan Greer

A recently issued report shows that the 22 states* with Right to Work laws prohibiting forced union dues and fees on the books in 2009 enjoyed overall employment growth of 16.9% over the next decade. Meanwhile, aggregate employment growth languished in the 23 states that have chosen, up to now, not to adopt Right…(Read More)

Rank and File Denounce Latest UAW Union Boss to be Sentenced

February 28, 2020 by CLJ

Rank and file UAW members had their say in September, 2019, as many attended Mike Grimes’ trial and had plenty to say both to him and the press about Grimes’ crimes. Nick Monacelli on clickondetroit: As he left the courtroom in September, 2019, Mike Grimes was met by a group of…(Read More)

The Fourteen Least-Affordable States All Lack Right To Work Protections

February 13, 2020 by Stan Greer

The correlation between forced-unionism status and a higher cost of living is robust. Not one of the 14 highest-cost states in 2019 has a Right to Work law. But 13 of the 15 lowest cost-of-living states protect employees’ Right to Work. There is a compelling case to be made that compulsory…(Read More)

Union Vice President Enriches Himself Through Teamster Benefit Plan

December 26, 2019 by CLJ

Unions claim to benefit their workers, but many are victims of compulsory unionism, forced to pay dues in order to get or keep a job. When union officials take these dues for their own enrichment, especially from an employee benefit plan, rank and file members are robbed a second time. On December 12…(Read More)

Right to Work States Attract Job-Creating Investments

December 5, 2019 by Stan Greer

Every year, hundreds of thousands of additional jobs are “insourced” into the United States by foreign companies. By 2017, there were more than 7.4 million insourced jobs across the country, which “represented 5.9% of all private sector U.S. jobs,” as University of Michigan-Flint economist Mark Perry reported last month in a…(Read More)

UAW official charged with embezzlement to appear in U.S. court

November 26, 2019 by NILRR Staff

DETROIT (Reuters) – A former United Auto Workers board member charged with conspiring with other union leaders to embezzle hundreds of thousands of dollars of rank-and-file members’ dues is scheduled to appear in federal court in Detroit on Tuesday.The court appearance of Vance Pearson, 58, comes just days after General Motors Co filed…(Read More)

NLRB News Releases (click link to download)

NLRB Resumes Representation Elections
WASHINGTON, DC – The National Labor Relations Board will not extend its temporary suspension of Board-conducted elections past April 3, 2020 and will instead resume conducting elections beginning Monday, April 6, 2020. On March 19, 2020, because of the extraordinary circumstances related to the COVID-19 pandemic, the NLRB had ordered the temporary suspension of all Board-conducted […]
NLRB Finalizes Rulemaking to Protect Employee Free Choice
Washington D.C.- The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has finalized a series of amendments to Part 103 of its Rules and Regulations. The Board believes that these amendments better protect employees’ statutory right of free choice on questions concerning representation. The final rule will be published in the Federal Register tomorrow, April 1, 2020. The […]
Board Delays Implementation of Modifications to Representation Case Procedures
Washington D.C. – The National Labor Relations Board announces that, to facilitate the resolution of legal challenges, it is postponing the effective date of its final rule modifying the Agency’s Representation Case Procedures from April 16, 2020 to May 31, 2020. The notice will be published later in the week. The Board published the final […]
Updates on Temporary NLRB Office Closures
Effective immediately, the National Labor Relations Board’s Region 28 office in Phoenix, Arizona will be closed temporarily due to an employee in that office possibly having been exposed to the coronavirus. As a precaution, a deep clean of the Phoenix office will be completed before reopening. The Agency is taking this step to ensure the […]