Sources: National Labor Relations Board; International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Washington, D.C.; CP staff A new National Labor Relations Board framework for determining when employers are required to bargain with unions absent a representation election was announced concurrent with a late-August decision affirming prior agency findings of unfair labor practices by Cemex Construction Materials Pacific LLC. In March 2019, mixer truck…
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Iron Workers case shapes New York precast erector’s bargaining unit
National Labor Relations Board Regional Director (RD) Kathy Drew-King has determined a craft unit within the site crew of Kingston, N.Y.-based NYC Crane Hoist Operations LLC, and directed an election for its 27 members to vote on representation by the United Derrickmen & Riggers Association, International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers Local 197. The Long Island…
Read MoreIron Workers case frames bargaining unit for Big Apple precast erector
Sources: National Labor Relations Board Region 29, Brooklyn, N.Y.; CP staff National Labor Relations Board Regional Director (RD) Kathy Drew-King has determined a craft unit within the site crew of Kingston, N.Y.-based NYC Crane Hoist Operations LLC, and directed an election for its 27 members to vote on representation by the United Derrickmen & Riggers Association, International Association of Bridge,…
Read MoreExpanded joint employer definition clouds contractor, subcontractor ties
Sources: Associated Builders & Contractors, National Association of Home Builders, Washington, D.C.; National Labor Relations Board; CP staff
Against precedent dating to 1984, a 3-2 NLRB majority redefines “joint employer” in a decision favoring an International Brotherhood of Teamsters local aiming to extend representation from a recycling station bargaining unit—equipment operators and companion staff employed by the facility’s owner—to a subcontractor whose employees perform waste sorting and related services.
Read MoreDischarged, union-wise dump and mixer driver prevails in back pay case
Sources: National Labor Relations Board; CP staff
In one of its final 2014 decisions, the NLRB adopted an administrative law judge’s order that Fairmont Heights, Md.-based Pessoa Construction Co. pay a former dump truck driver $95,000 in back wages. It settles protracted pay period and calculation proceedings triggered by an initial agency decision determining the highway contractor violated the National Labor Relations Act when it terminated William Membrino for “union activities.”
Read MoreNLRB opens employer e-mail systems to union organizers, campaigning
Sources: National Labor Relations Board; CP staff
NLRB has adopted a final Representation–Case Procedures rule to modernize and streamline representation dispute resolution, Chairman Mark Gaston Pearce noting: “With these changes, the Board strives to ensure [the] process remains a model of fairness and efficiency for all.”
Read MoreTeamsters hold shuttered RM producer to ‘effects bargaining’
National Labor Relations Board Administrative Law Judge Melissa Olivero has ordered Champaign Builders Supply Co. principals to bargain with Teamsters Local 26, Champaign, Ill., regarding the effects of the company’s September 2013 closing of a ready mixed plant staffed by a driver, yard staff and loader operator unit.
Read MoreNLRB clears path for Operating Engineers decertification vote at Allied Stone
Sources: National Labor Relations Board; CP staff
In a case involving one of 12 crushed stone or sand & gravel operations under Moline, Ill.-based RiverStone Group Inc., the NLRB affirms a contract bar doctrine limiting to three years the window during which a collective bargaining agreement restricts unit members from pursuing a vote to decertify their union.
Read MoreOSHA and NLRB Update Referral Agreement
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration and National Labor Relations Board have implemented a joint referral agreement to redirect to the NLRB OSHA complainants whose claims of discrimination under the OSH Act are time barred, but may form the basis of timely unfair labor practice charges under the National Labor Relations Act. NLRB Associate General Counsel Anne Purcell disclosed the accord in a May memorandum.
Read MoreOperating Engineers take narrow election at Virginia precast plant
Sources: National Labor Relations Board; CP staff The NRLB has certified International Union of Operating Engineers Local 77 in Suitland, Md., as collective-bargaining representative for equipment operators and mechanics at the Structural Concrete Products LLC plant in Manassas, Va. The Board adopted a regional director’s January 2014 decision on the prior month’s representation vote—four in favor, three opposed—among proposed bargaining…
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