Word: nlrb
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...wiretapping. It has been found guilty of repeated labor-law violations and fined almost $1.5 million in the last 15 years. While Stevens is not a household word (yet), it is infamous to people in the industrial relations field. Boyd Leedom, former chairman of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), said: "J.P. Stevens is so out of tune with a humane, civilized approach to industrial relations that it should shock even those least sensitive to honor, justice and decent treatment." Because of its barbaric practices, NLRB officials have labeled Stevens the nation's leading labor law violator...
...union won an election at the company's Statesboro, Georgia plant, in spite of what the NLRB found to be a series of illegal actions by Stevens during the organizing drive. The NLRB ordered the company to bargain; rather than do so, the company shut down the plant and transferred the production to other plants. Their action had ramifications in other factories as well. Workers in nearby plants feared the same reprisal if they voted for the union. In fact, Stevens circulated rumors saying that a Wallace, N.C. plant might be shut down if the union won during an organizing...
...NLRB processes are so slow that they are ineffectual. As a panel of law experts said, "In labor management relations, justice delayed is often justice denied. A remedy granted more than two years after the event will bear little relation to the human situation which gave rise to the need for government intervention." Frustrated by the company's deliberate evasiveness, the NLRB is seeking to impose fines of $5,000 per day for continuing violations. Citing the company's "unfair labor practices of unprecedented flagrancy and magnitude," the NLRB's general counsel wants the ability to bypass several legal steps...
Garner said the New England office hopes to present its recommendation on the contested ballots to the NLRB...
...votes debated by the union and the NLRB count in favor of unionization, a tie will result, Sytek said. A tie vote defeats the attempt to unionize the Gnomon copy workers, according to NLRB rules...