New Bill Would Reverse NLRB's Supervisor Definition
Though this is not directly related to the Employee Free Choice Act, labor is once again flexing its newly-rediscovered political muscle, this time in a bill introduced yesterday by Rep. Robert Andrews (D-NJ) that would overturn the controversial NLRB decisons issued last fall on the issue of supervisory status. The bill, H.R. 1644, has been cleverly titled the "Re-Empowerment of Skilled and Professional Employees and Construction Tradeworkers (RESPECT) Act We will post a link to the text as soon as it is available. UPDATE: Text of bill is available HERE.
What might be next on the agenda?
Steven Hill, director of the political reform program for the New America Foundation, and Dmitri Iglitzin, a labor law attorney and an Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington School of Law, may be giving us a clue in a Washington Post Op-ed, Enable Choice on Labor Unions:
Yet under current labor law, workers and labor unions are getting short shrift. For example, a subsection of the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 makes it an unlawful "secondary boycott" for a labor union to bring any type of pressure against any person or business other than the employer where the unionized workers work. That means unions cannot challenge a parent corporation's directives to its subsidiary or a subcontractor, even if the directive might cause all of the employees to lose their jobs.
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