Labor Updates (3/21/08)

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)
UN Agency Finds NLRB Violating Workers' Rights: A key international agency ruled today that the Bush administration's National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is denying workers' rights in violation of international labor standards. The International Labor Organization's (ILO's) Committee on Freedom of Association held that the NLRB's definitions of "supervisor" in the Oakwood cases violates freedom of association standards by excluding staff that only occasionally perform supervisory duties from protection of the National Labor Relations Act. "The ILO's decision in this case vindicates workers' rights of freedom of association and collective bargaining, despite the attempts at spinning it by U.S. employers," said AFL-CIO President John Sweeney. Click here to read the full story. - reported by James Park, AFL-CIO Now Weblog