Labor Updates (1/7/08)

Board Nixes Union Emails: In yet another anti-worker ruling, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) said on December 30 that employers can ban workers from using the company's e-mail system to send out union-related messages. "Anyone with e-mail knows that this is how employees communicate with each other in today's workplace," the AFL-CIO's Jonathan Hiatt told The New York Times. "Outrageously in allowing employers to ban such communications for union purposes, the Bush labor board has again struck at the heart of what the nation's labor laws were intended to protect - the right of employees to discuss working conditions and other matters of mutual concern."