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Court Whacks NLRB Ambush Rule: CDW
May 14, 2012
Employers Laud Court’s Decision On NLRB Elections Rule WASHINGTON, D.C. // MAY 14, 2012 // Citing Woody Allen and the lack of a quorum of National Labor Relations Board Members, the US District Court for the District of Columbia today overturned the Board’s illegal and ill-advised “ambush elections” rule, which was challenged by the Coalition [...]
Read more »CDW Files Amicus In NLRB ‘Specialty Healthcare’ Case
April 23, 2012
Today, the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace (CDW) submitted a brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on one of the most significant and troubling cases recently decided by the National Labor Relations Board
Read more »CDW: Good News from S.C. and D.C. on NLRB
April 17, 2012
This is a big win for CDW and our partners in litigation at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, as well as a victory for employers across the nation. We are are gratified the courts are stating the obvious—that the federal government dramatically overstepped its bounds.
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Decision on NLRB Rule Draws Mixed Reviews As Business, Labor Await Board’s Next Move
May 16, 2012
Coalition for a Democratic Workplace Chairman Geoffrey Burr commented in a May 15 statement, “Employers are greatly gratified that the Court has overturned a rule that would have been bad for employees and employers.”
“While we hope this will be the final word on this particular attack on workplace democracy, we know that hope is not a strategy and are keeping our eyes out and litigation ready on a number of fronts,” Burr said.
Read more »The Woody Allen Rule
May 15, 2012
Some of the Obama Administration’s worst regulatory abuses have arrived via the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)—think of its lawsuit to stop Boeing from making airplanes in the right-to-work state of South Carolina. But such overreach is too much for at least one federal judge, who on Monday overturned the board’s political favor to the AFL-CIO that threw out longstanding union election laws and was designed to make organizing easier.
Read more: Wall Street JournalUnions get upper hand with newly approved quickie elections
May 11, 2012
Fact: Union membership in the United States’ private sector is at an all-time low of 6.9%. Last December, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) passed a controversial accelerated election rule that will allow unions a chance to seriously increase their membership. The Senate, at the end of April, failed to get the votes needed to nullify this controversial pro-union election rule. Consequently, this new NLRB rule, referred to in some circles as the Ambush Election Rule, became effective April 30.
Read more: Crane'sThe Last Thing Unions Are Concerned About Is Free Choice For Workers
May 3, 2012
Many people, who do not look beyond the vision or the rhetoric to the reality, still think of labor unions as protectors of working people from their employers. Union bosses still employ that kind of rhetoric. However, someone once said, “When I speak I put on a mask, but when I act I must take it off.” That mask has been coming off more and more, especially during the Obama administration, and what is revealed underneath is ugly, cynical and dangerous.
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CDW Urges NLRB to Tear Down Poster Plan
On behalf of millions of employers, the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace (CDW) today filed comments opposing an effort by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to force firms to post pro-organizing notices in an estimated 6 million workplaces, the vast majority of which are non-union. The rule would require all employers covered by the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) to post a notice setting forth some—but not all—rights under the Act.
Click here to read our press release and here to download a PDF version of the submitted comments.
