Because the fear is that the Bush NLRB will declare the whole agreement illegal. Understand, this potential attack on neutrality agreements would undermine the strategy that has allowed most of the major organziing that has succeeded in the last decade, from CWA's telephone organizing to HERE's hotel organizing in places like Las Vegas.
For those doing organizing, the difference between operating under a GOP NLRB and a Dem NLRB is like night and day. And those who pretend otherwise just show how disconnected they are from the day-to-day reality of union organizing.
Nader screwed the union movement. All the rationalizations won't change that fact.
Nathan Newman -- WSJ: Work Week, July 17, 2001
A UNION DUCKS a fight over neutrality agreements.
The Communications Workers of America recently backed off a charge it filed with the National Labor Relations Board accusing Verizon Communications Inc. of failing to live up to an agreement between the two on union recognition. After further research, the union concluded the board hasn't yet taken a position on such issues, says Gabrielle Semel, a CWA attorney. Other allegations are being considered by the board's New York regional office.
The turnabout comes as employer attorneys express hope that they can use the board to weaken such agreements, which unions use to avoid the more-cumbersome NLRB-overseen election process in the first place. A GOP-controlled board is expected to be more sympathetic to employer complaints that the agreements bind their hands in union dealings and implicitly favor one union over another.
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