May 27, 2011 NILRR News Clips

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Judge voids Wisconsin collective bargaining law

Superior Telegraph Online, 5/26/2011

MADISON – Wisconsin’s law taking away nearly all collective
bargaining rights from most public workers was struck down Thursday by a circuit
court judge but the ruling will not be the final say in the union fight that
brought tens of thousands of protesters to the Capitol earlier this year.

House Panel Debates Union Pressure Tactics, NLRB Actions, and Congressional
Oversight

Daily Labor Report Online, 5/26/2011

The House Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions
Subcommittee met May 26 to hear testimony on “Corporate Campaigns and the NLRB:
The Impact of Union Pressure on Job Creation,” but witnesses at the session
called by subcommittee Chairman Phil Roe (R-Tenn.) had few suggestions for
legislative action, and panel members spent much of the hearing debating the
National Labor Relations Board acting general counsel’s recent unfair labor
practice complaint against Boeing Co.

Rat Balloons Used in Union Protests Allowed by Labor Board

Bloomberg Online, 5/26/2011

Inflatable rats displayed by labor unions outside a
company’s offices are a legal form of protest, the U.S. National Labor Relations
Board ruled in a case that will expand the scope of worker protests.

The NLRB, which mediates disputes between unions and
companies, decided that rat balloons at a company’s suppliers or customers, not
just the facilities of the business they are protesting, isn’t coercive,
according to a statement.

Are the Other Boeing Workers’ Rights Lost?

Wall Street Journal Online, 5/27/2011

Regarding Arthur Laffer and Stephen Moore’s “Boeing and the
Union Berlin Wall” (op-ed, May 13): The National Labor Relations Board has
complained that Boeing retaliated against machinist union members for exercising
their right to strike. Don’t Boeing’s South Carolina employees, who recently
chose to exercise their legal right to decertify the union, have the right not
to be retaliated against by their own former union?

Union files complaint to stop move of NYC Opera

Wall Street Journal Online, 5/26/2011

The American Guild of Musical Artists says the opera’s move
to a smaller venue and a shorter schedule will mean less work for union members,
who are usually guaranteed a certain number of work weeks per year. It filed a
complaint on Thursday with the National Labor Relations Board saying the opera
should have negotiated any move with the union.

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