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CNN Pays Record Union-Busting Fine
In a record settlement, CNN has been ordered to pay $76 million to settle a long-running case of union-busting. The case began way back in 2003 when the cable network fired 300 camera operators. The...
Has the NLRB Lost its Way?
This post was written by the IBEW Media Department. "Everybody needs a law that is precise and certain." Sen. Robert F. Wagner was matter-of-fact in his call for Congress to pass the...
Trump Wants to Make Union Pickets Illegal
Trump's National Labor Relations Board is looking at ways to further curb unions ability to take action against their employer by putting more limits on picketing. Read more from Bloomberg Law...
NLRB Becomes Anti-worker
Management lawyer John Ring was appointed chairman of the National Labor Relations Board on Thursday, one day after the U.S. Senate narrowly confirmed him as an NLRB member. Ring’s...
Trump's NLRB Makes it Harder to Join a Union
A new week, a new attack on labor from Trump’s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). In their continuing fight to make it harder to win a union election, the NLRB has voted to begin the repeal...
Teamsters Win $25 Million
The Regional Director for Region 9, on behalf of the General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), has signed a court-mediated settlement agreement among the NLRB, VIUSA, Inc. (...
Mincing Micro Unions
In their continuing effort to make it harder to organize, Senate Republican’s have introduced a bill to repeal the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decision to allow so called Micro Unions...
Victory: Employer must pay Union back
An administrative law judge for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has ruled against Wisconsin metal fabrication company Metalcraft’s union busting tactics and has ordered the company to...
Organizing Victories across the country
Lately a lot of news coming out of UCOMM Blog has been negative. We have been covering a National Right to Work push, a case challenging fair share fees for public employees, and the chaos...
Peerless Plywood scares 'em into submission
I get frustrated when trying to explain to a Building Trades union leader why the workers at the Walmart or Home Depot they just built don't organize. It's even more frustrating when the PBA...