A federal judge in the Northern District of Texas has enjoined the National Mediation Board from conducting a union representation election involving the passenger-service employees of a major air carrier and the Communication Workers of America. You can read the TRO here.
If you are are regular reader of this blog, you know that by November 14, 2011, most private employers (union and non-union) have to post notice of employees’ federal labor rights to form and join a union. Some of you may have even already posted the NLRB-sanctioned poster.
However, several lawsuits have been filed
Weingarten rights are the rights a union member has to, upon request, have a union representative present during an employer’s investigatory interview that may lead to disciplinary action. For nearly thirty years Weingarten rights only applied to employees who worked at employers that had been organized by unions.
In July 2004 a primarily Democratically appointed National