LABOR | November 06, 2011 | 5 comments

Republicans: No Time for Jobs, Attacks on Workers Come First

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House Republicans have turned a routine complaint by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) against Boeing into a “political and ideological circus,” says AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka.

He says a Republican bill introduced after the NLRB’s complaint, which accuses the aviation giant of retaliating against workers for exercising their legal rights,

is sweeping legislation that would gut the National Labor Relations Act and result in serious harmful changes to jobs and workers’ rights throughout the country.

http://blog.aflcio.org/2011/09/12/republican-nlrb-bill-guts-workers-rights-shiel...

Earlier this year, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) proposed some modest rule changes to streamline and modernize the way union elections are conducted. While those rules are still under review, Republicans on the House Education and Workforce Committee today approved a bill that would add months- or years-long delays to union elections.

http://blog.aflcio.org/2011/10/26/republican-house-bills-goal-deny-workers-a-voi...
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5 comments // Republicans: No Time for Jobs, Attacks on Workers Come First

  • Lisayou
  • JohnA
    • +1
      JohnA  

    • The NLRB overstepped their bounds with their Boeing ruling. Boeing was not closing it's plant in Washington state, it was opening a new one in South Carolina. So to the NLRB members who claimed to be protecting union workers in Washington state I would ask, what do you have to say to the right-to-work workers in South Carolina? Are Union jobs more important than right-to work state jobs? Do the workers of South Carolina not deserve to have jobs and be protected? What do you have to say to the potential employees of Boeing in South Carolina who will now not be getting a job?

    • 7 months ago
  • kennymotown
  • Kelly_Balthrop
  • kvb1
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      kvb1  

    • In 2011 alone, anti-worker legislators in Congress have launched nearly 50 attacks on the National Labor Relations Board and the nation’s labor law.

    • 7 months ago
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