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Updated 6/23/2004; 10:42:13 AM
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Wednesday, June 23, 2004 |
Recent NLRB ruling overturns Weingarten rights for non-union employees
IBM Corporation and Kenneth Paul Schult, Robert William Bannon, and Steven Parsley.
full text of June 9, 2004 decision at http://www.nlrb.gov/nlrb/shared_files/decisions/341/341-148.htm
(bold added):
"Our reexamination of Epilepsy Foundation leads us to conclude that the policy considerations supporting that decision do not warrant, particularly at this time, adherence to the holding in Epilepsy Foundation. In recent years, there have been many changes in the workplace environment, including ever-increasing requirements to conduct workplace investigations, as well as new security concerns raised by incidents of national and workplace violence.
Our consideration of these features of the contemporary workplace leads us to conclude that an employer must be allowed to conduct its required investigations in a thorough, sensitive, and confidential manner. This can best be accomplished by permitting an employer in a nonunion setting to investigate an employee without the presence of a coworker."
thanks to UCB Labor Center researcher Ken Jacobs for pointing out this item
10:37:14 AM 
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Nation's Largest Union Calls for End to U.S. Occupation of Iraq and Withdrawal of U.S. Troops
SEIU resolution, 6/22/2004
Nearly 4000 delegates of Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the nation's largest with 1.6 million members, voted unanimously at the union's national convention in San Francisco today to end U.S. occupation of Iraq and to bring U.S. troops stationed there home.
The strongly worded resolution pointed to military intervention aboard and attacks on workers at home. The resolution charged the Bush administration (backed by a majority in Congress) with responsibility for declining wages and benefits, deunionization, cuts in public services, crumbling health care and educational systems, cuts in veterans benefits, escalating public debt, and eroding economic, social and personal security.
The union proclaimed, "We cannot solve these economic and social problems without addressing U.S. foreign policy and its consequences."
The full text of the resolution is available on the USLAW website at http://uslaboragainstwar.org/article.php?id=5382
8:58:32 AM
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