Word: nlrb
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Last Friday, the president, provost and deans of Yale University were charged by the NLRB as a result of a complaint by TAs who were involved in a strike for union recognition...
Union leaders reacted to last week's revelation by filing charges with the NLRB. "Jobs are disappearing, and if American workers do not fight back, economically and politically, against Guess's blackmail, they are hapless victims," said UNITE campaign director David Young. U.S. law forbids companies from moving work abroad to avoid a labor-organizing campaign. UNITE is planning more legal action, boycott activities and protests on 300 college campuses, a key Guess market...
Various museum guards interviewed yesterday said that when the president of the new union, Stephen G. McCombe, petitioned the NLRB to create the union, McCombe did not have sufficient museum guard approval...
Take a look at what has happened to the graduate students over the past year--practices that the NLRB classified as a violation of federal labor law because they intimidated and threatened them. When 250 graduate student TAs instituted a "grade strike," in which grades for fall semester courses were withheld in order to pressure the university into recognizing a union for TAs, the university threatened a ban on future teaching, academic disciplinary hearings, negative letters of recommendation and possible expulsion. To respond, Yale's Graduate Employees and Students Organization (GESO) filed a suit with the NLRB earlier this year...
...hope that the NLRB's proposed formal complaint against Yale will convince the university to comply with the labor board's demands; if not, we would like to see the case reach an administrative law judge, because a ruling in favor of the TAs could set a nationwide precedent. Especially in the wake of last week's strikes at the University of California's three largest campuses--Berkeley, Los Angeles and San Diego--the decision on Yale could mean more than a pay raise for a few hundred graduate students in New Haven. It could set an example for fair...