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Omaha Steve

(103,451 posts)
Tue Aug 29, 2023, 10:33 AM Aug 2023

TEAMSTERS SECURE VICTORY FOR ENTIRE LABOR MOVEMENT IN LANDMARK NLRB CASE




https://teamster.org/2023/08/teamsters-secure-victory-for-entire-labor-movement-in-landmark-nlrb-case/

Cemex Construction Materials Pacific, LLC Decision Eases Pathway to Organizing
Press Contact: Matt McQuaid Phone: (202) 624-6877 Email: mmcquaid@teamster.org

(WASHINGTON) – After a lengthy legal battle at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the Teamsters are celebrating a landmark victory with its decision in the case of Cemex Construction Materials Pacific, LLC (28-CA-230115). The labor board ordered Cemex to bargain with the Teamsters in a precedent-setting move, thereby ruling that all employers will now be required to bargain with a union if, during an election for representation, the employer commits labor law violations egregious enough to compromise the legitimacy of the results.

“This landmark decision by the NLRB will be a catalyst for workers who are standing up and demanding their worth – not just at Cemex, but at every other employer in the country,” said Teamsters General President Sean M. O’Brien.

“The way Cemex conducted itself when its workers sought to organize five years ago was on par with the way elections are undertaken in a tin-pot dictatorship,” said Chris Griswold, Teamsters International Vice President At-Large and President of Teamsters Joint Council 42. “This company fired union supporters, intimidated them, harassed them, and broke nearly every other rule under the sun. If any good came out of this company’s scorched-earth thuggery, it’s that now employers will think twice before they break the law to break the union.”

The decision, which also allows the NLRB to implement bargaining orders in other situations where the employer’s actions impede the ability to hold a fair election, means that the board will now issue bargaining orders in lieu of re-running elections as a remedy for unlawful union-busting when the union already established majority support. It comes only a day after the NLRB announced a pro-labor regulation, one that ended frivolous procedural hurdles that lead to delay in holding union elections.

Founded in 1903, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters represents 1.2 million hardworking people in the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico. Visit Teamster.org for more information. Follow us on Twitter @Teamsters and “like” us on Facebook at Facebook.com/teamsters.

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TEAMSTERS SECURE VICTORY FOR ENTIRE LABOR MOVEMENT IN LANDMARK NLRB CASE (Original Post) Omaha Steve Aug 2023 OP
Finally. But where is a female in that photo? efhmc Aug 2023 #1
Here is the 2022 Teamsters women Conference Beachnutt Aug 2023 #8
Thank you so much. I can always trust DU to get me the facts and set me straight. efhmc Aug 2023 #19
This is the Traildogbob Aug 2023 #2
WOOOOOOOOO! LiberalLovinLug Aug 2023 #3
Personally I don't think employers should be allowed to interfere in organizing. LiberalFighter Aug 2023 #4
The Law agrees with you, apparently Hekate Aug 2023 #13
Billy Bragg - Rich Men Earning North of a Million pecosbob Aug 2023 #5
MLGA MLAA Aug 2023 #6
This is a BFD Fiendish Thingy Aug 2023 #7
Yes, but for now-- Thank you Joe Biden! LymphocyteLover Aug 2023 #14
If I read the article correctly soldierant Aug 2023 #22
'all employers will now be required to bargain with a union if, during an election for representatio elleng Aug 2023 #9
Now, add some multigraincracker Aug 2023 #10
I bet the companies appeal all the way to SCOTUS. Grumpy Old Guy Aug 2023 #11
and especially against Unions LymphocyteLover Aug 2023 #15
Wonderful news!!!!🍻 Native Aug 2023 #12
Good. It's taken them 50 years to get rid of the stink Jimmy Hoffa left Warpy Aug 2023 #16
Nice but we all know what is going to happen. Snackshack Aug 2023 #17
+1 Grumpy Old Guy Aug 2023 #18
Now if they would all vote for Democrats. Ferrets are Cool Aug 2023 #20
Good news! Wild blueberry Aug 2023 #21
Kick burrowowl Aug 2023 #23
United Auto Workers strike watch Historic NY Aug 2023 #24
A lot has changed in 5 years IronLionZion Aug 2023 #25
My son is a Teamster and has a living wage w/ decent benfits. Snarkoleptic Aug 2023 #26

Traildogbob

(9,974 posts)
2. This is the
Tue Aug 29, 2023, 11:32 AM
Aug 2023

ONLY way to get that Reagan TRICKLE to finally flow DOWN. And these billionaires have had decades of tax cuts (even elimination of taxes) to save enough start paying the people doing the works. Bout fucking time. Gotta tap into the off shore cash assholes.

LiberalFighter

(53,465 posts)
4. Personally I don't think employers should be allowed to interfere in organizing.
Tue Aug 29, 2023, 11:48 AM
Aug 2023

A labor union is an organization for employees wanting to be represented.

Fiendish Thingy

(18,510 posts)
7. This is a BFD
Tue Aug 29, 2023, 12:04 PM
Aug 2023

I’m sure it will get appealed, and with cases pending before SCOTUS that could neuter ALL executive branch regulations without specific congressional legislation, this is far from a slam dunk for workers, but it’s still an important step.

soldierant

(7,898 posts)
22. If I read the article correctly
Tue Aug 29, 2023, 06:47 PM
Aug 2023

(as well as everything else I have been reading on this topic), this was a decision by the NLRB, not by a Court. I doubt whether they can appeal directly to a court. Of course what they can do is file alawsuit in court - and once begun, that can be appealed as high as it gets, so it'smerely an additional step. But we're all so impatient lately - me included - I thought I'd mention it.

elleng

(136,050 posts)
9. 'all employers will now be required to bargain with a union if, during an election for representatio
Tue Aug 29, 2023, 12:23 PM
Aug 2023

the employer commits labor law violations egregious enough to compromise the legitimacy of the results.'

Grumpy Old Guy

(3,552 posts)
11. I bet the companies appeal all the way to SCOTUS.
Tue Aug 29, 2023, 12:35 PM
Aug 2023

This SCOTUS always rules against the employee and in favor of big business.

Warpy

(113,130 posts)
16. Good. It's taken them 50 years to get rid of the stink Jimmy Hoffa left
Tue Aug 29, 2023, 01:08 PM
Aug 2023

but if any union needs a fight, it's the teamsters. Truckers are being abused six ways from Sunday and it needs to stop or the whole damned industry will collapse. There are too many easier ways for a tight labor market to make a living.

Snackshack

(2,541 posts)
17. Nice but we all know what is going to happen.
Tue Aug 29, 2023, 01:47 PM
Aug 2023

Some creative lawyer will come up with a creative technicality this will move to SCOTUS and…the corrupt gop that shit all over the precedents of putting a new member on the court will get this reverser by 6 of the most worthless and corrupt Supreme Court justices to ever stain the courtroom.

Along with dissolution of the gop for its collusion and cover given to DT in the killing a million + Americans, SCOTUS should also be razed to the ground and dissolved as well. We will never get back the million + American who died or erase all the pain and suffering loved ones endured (the lucky ones that is - who were able to say goodbye thru FACETIME because a caring healthcare worker held the iPad/phone) the SAME healthcare workers the pos gop and it’s knuckle dragging base attacked during a fucking Pandemic.

There is no forgiveness for anyone who took part in the death of so many human first, Americans second also there is nothing that can’t be rebuilt. A complete wipe of the sectors the gop and its base occupy on the reality hard drive would result in nothing but benefit for the country and an argument could easily be made for the rest of the world when one simply looks at what the gop had done since just 2000.

Historic NY

(37,851 posts)
24. United Auto Workers strike watch
Wed Aug 30, 2023, 07:52 AM
Aug 2023
https://prospect.org/labor/2023-08-28-uaw-tentative-agreement-gm-ultium-cells/]

The United Auto Workers’ master contract with the Big Three automakers—Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis—is set to expire in under three weeks. The union announced on Friday that its membership voted 97 percent in favor of authorizing a strike after September 14. The UAW’s Ford department reported a 98 percent strike authorization vote for hourly workers and 99 percent by salaried workers; workers at GM passed the strike authorization by 96 percent; and workers at Stellantis voted 95 percent in favor

IronLionZion

(46,968 posts)
25. A lot has changed in 5 years
Wed Aug 30, 2023, 09:03 AM
Aug 2023

we're now in "labor shortage" instead of "they're stealing your jobs". Glad to see unionization and collective bargaining is making tremendous progress now.

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