Labor Board Undercuts Workers

"The Republican-dominated National Labor Relations Board is at it again" reports James Parks of the AFL-CIO Now Blog. In a September 29 ruling that will undercut worker rights, the Board ruled that employers who voluntary agree to card-check recognition must notify employees about a 45-day window to petition for a decertification election. While a majority (50 percent) of employees must sign a card in order to authorize a union, this decision also gives anti-union employees the upper hand by requiring that only 30 percent of employees sign a decertification petition, Parks reports. "This shameful decision reverses decades of precedent around voluntary recognition,'" AFL-CIO President John Sweeney says. "It's time for the politicization at the NLRB to stop." Click here to read Parks' full story.