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[hislegacy]

The National Labor Relations Board overruled hundreds of Delaware poultry workers who had voted to reject union leadership. The agency said in a 3-1 ruling released Wednesday that a provision prohibiting workers from leaving a union for a set time period after a contract is signed allowed the board to ignore the workers' March 2020 vote. The decision reversed a regional NLRB director who had initially ruled in the workers' favor.

Oscar Cruz Sosa, the employee who led the charge to hold the election, ripped union leadership for disregarding the voices of workers. "The union has been harassing and intimidating us for a long time and it’s unbelievable that they’re going to get their way by having 800 ballots destroyed," Cruz Sosa told the Washington Free Beacon.

 

[KarateCowboy]

That's a wacky situation

 

[Arcangl86]

I love how this article is trying to place blame squarely on Biden when 3 of the current 4 member of the NLRB were appointed by Trump. And from what I can find, this "contract bar" rule has been in place for decades. It's not something new that was just invented for this case.

 

[hislegacy]

The National Labor Relations Board overruled hundreds of Delaware poultry workers who had voted to reject union leadership.

I love how this article is trying to place blame squarely on Biden when 3 of the current 4 member of the NLRB were appointed by Trump. And from what I can find, this "contract bar" rule has been in place for decades. It's not something new that was just invented for this case.

President Joe Biden's labor arbiter threw out hundreds of votes from workers attempting to cut ties with a Delaware union.
"We are very mad that the American labor law system let us down and is forcing us to pay dues and be in a union we don’t want," Cruz Sosa said. "While politicians scream about ‘counting every vote’ and making it easier to vote, they just ordered our 800 votes to be destroyed and never counted."

The decision marks a victory for the local chapter of the United Food and Commercial Workers union, the nation's largest private sector union and a major backer of Democratic candidates. The union's PAC spent more than $1.2 million in 2020 electing Democratic candidates.​

Whose Arbiter? And what party got 1.2 million from them last year?

The decision comes after the NLRB became engulfed in a political scandal over a series of unprecedented personnel moves made by Biden. As one of his first moves in office, the Democrat fired the NLRB's top prosecutor after the general counsel refused to resign. Glenn Taubman, a National Right to Work attorney who helped represent Cruz Sosa, said the Biden administration has repeatedly signaled that it "exists solely to please labor union officials."​

 

[Arcangl86]

President Joe Biden's labor arbiter threw out hundreds of votes from workers attempting to cut ties with a Delaware union.
"We are very mad that the American labor law system let us down and is forcing us to pay dues and be in a union we don’t want," Cruz Sosa said. "While politicians scream about ‘counting every vote’ and making it easier to vote, they just ordered our 800 votes to be destroyed and never counted."

The decision marks a victory for the local chapter of the United Food and Commercial Workers union, the nation's largest private sector union and a major backer of Democratic candidates. The union's PAC spent more than $1.2 million in 2020 electing Democratic candidates.​

Whose Arbiter? And what party got 1.2 million from them last year?

The decision comes after the NLRB became engulfed in a political scandal over a series of unprecedented personnel moves made by Biden. As one of his first moves in office, the Democrat fired the NLRB's top prosecutor after the general counsel refused to resign. Glenn Taubman, a National Right to Work attorney who helped represent Cruz Sosa, said the Biden administration has repeatedly signaled that it "exists solely to please labor union officials."​

Yes, the personnel moves made was appointing one member to the NLRB and replacing the General Counsel. The General Counsel was not involved in this case, and of the four members of the board who actually made the decision, three of the four were Republicans appointed by Trump. Of those three, two of them voted with the lone Democrat to uphold a rule that has existed for decades.

ETA: My mistake. Every single member of the NLRB was appointed by Trump. What Biden did was appoint the sole Democrat as the Chair, but she had been appointed by Trump to the board.

 

[hislegacy]

ETA: My mistake. Every single member of the NLRB was appointed by Trump. What Biden did was appoint the sole Democrat as the Chair, but she had been appointed by Trump to the board.

Who threw out 800 votes

 

[Arcangl86]

Who threw out 800 votes

Because by long standing NLRB rules, a union can't be decertified during the life of a collective bargaining agreement.

 

[hislegacy]

The decision reversed a regional NLRB director who had initially ruled in the workers' favor.