Word: nlrb
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Kenney is currently under investigation by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) for allegedly intimidating pro-union workers. Protesters also faulted the contractor for failing to provide an apprenticeship program or to pay its workers the prevailing local wage...
Employees at W.T. Kenney, a company of about 30 workers, began attempts to unionizein April, according to John Laughlin, aspokesperson for Painters and Allied Trades, theunion that brought the complaint to the NLRB...
...They have been trying to organize for three orfour months," Laughlin said. The union filed itscomplaint with the NLRB...
According to Scott Burson, a supervisoryattorney at the NLRB, W.T. Kenney faces threeseparate accusations. Workers allege a unionsupporter was sent home from work early,threatening statements were made to unionsupporters and the company made attempts todiscourage workers from unionizing...
Roosevelt promised--and delivered--"action and action now." His New Deal was an amalgam of "alphabet" agencies (AAA, NRA, WPA, SEC, FDIC, NLRB) and work-relief projects that set the jobless to work building dams, bridges, highways and airports. Congress enacted such now hallowed (but then seemingly radical) reforms as Social Security, unemployment compensation and federal insurance of bank deposits...