Even Unions Have Union Problems »
NN&V Exclusive (Rebecca Smith) – “We will be fighting for the rights of every American worker, private or public, to bargain collectively for better wages, benefits and working conditions.” So said James Hoffa, Jr., March 24, 2011, in the Huffington Post. Fighting for every worker, except the ones who work for the mighty International Brotherhood of Teamsters, that is. Are the organizers second-class citizens? They don’t count, I guess. Maybe they are second-class citizens within [...]
Reno Could Stand To Learn From Vallejo, CA’s Return From Bankruptcy »
(Jim Clark) – News item: “Reno Mayor Bob Cashell and Washoe County Commission Chairman Bob Larkin were scheduled to meet to discuss the County’s contract with the City of Reno for coordination of firefighting services, which is faltering because of Reno’s generous contract with the firefighters’ union. Neither showed up.” There was a substantial crowd at the Republican Men’s Club of Reno meeting at the Atlantis Hotel and Casino last Friday. lots of folks were [...]
Top Dem Donor Says Unions Are Strangling Education »
(Victor Joecks/NPRI) – And he wasn’t done. He also said that “Democrats are now on the wrong side of every important education-reform issue.” Wow. He’s not from Nevada, but Washington state Democrat Nick Hanauer, who’s donated more than $2.5 million to Democrats since 2001, and other big-time Democratic donors have had enough of the teachers’ union putting adults before children. Several well-heeled Democratic donors have openly split with the state party and legislative leaders over [...]
Small But Meaningful Victories Have Unions Crying Foul »
NN&V Exclusive (Rebecca Smith) – My respect for our Republican representatives has risen in the past few weeks as they have successfully parried with the Obama administration’s union-friendly labor appointments and handed the National Mediation Board (NMB) a set back by passing the new FAA funding bill. While this has certainly vacated the front page or the headlines from the main news stations, it is a small victory for employers, and after so many setbacks, [...]
Clark County Residents Pay Millions To Fund Union Activities »
(Sean Whaley/NPRI) – A Nevada think tank investigation shows that Clark County taxpayers are contributing $4.6 million a year to fund union activities by local government workers. The results of the investigation by Steven Miller and Kyle Gillis of the Nevada Policy Research Institute, published today in the Nevada Journal, identifies almost 70,000 hours of paid leave time made available each year by local governments to public employees to conduct union business. Although top union [...]
A Margin Tax Is Always A Bad Idea »
(Geoffrey Lawrence/NPRI) – Leaders in the Democratic majority during the 2011 state legislative session proposed a dramatic change to Nevada’s tax system: Phase out the Modified Business Tax — a tax on private-sector payroll — and replace it with a new, larger levy modeled after Texas’ business margin tax. The effort gained so little traction in Carson City that the Democratic leadership, embarrassed, never even brought its proposal up for a committee vote. Now, almost [...]
NLRB’s New Ruling Gives Unions the Quickie They Are Looking For »
NN&V Exclusive (Rebecca Smith) – Back in June of 2011, the NLRB started hinting that they would be looking at changing decades old election rules. On January 12, 2012, they did it. The new rules regarding union elections will go into effect in April, giving the lone dissenting member Brian Hayes time to write his dissent. The NLRB has changed the rules to shorten the time between when the union files a petition to represent [...]
Businesses Beware: Unionism Is On The Rise »
NN&V Exclusive (Rebecca Smith) – I had already written another article for this week, but then some news broke over the weekend that every employer should be aware of: Unionism is on the rise. This rise, according to the statistics released by the Department of Labor in 2011, occurred after a drastic downward trend in union membership that started in 2008. I caught a blurb of this on Fox News on Friday, January 27. After [...]
Union-Friendly Changes By NRLB Will Affect Your Business, Part II »
NN&V Exclusive In Part I of Union-Friendly Changes By NRLB Will Affect Your Business, Smith explained micro bargaining units and new regulations regarding notices of the right to unionize. Below are three other changes businesses must be aware of for 2012. – Ed. (Rebecca Smith) – 3. The NLRB’s decision regarding the Jurys Boston Hotel was, to me, one that had a huge precedent , but was overlooked by most. This case was brought against [...]
NLRB Suddenly Backs Down From Pushing Vote On Ambush Election Rule »
NN&V Exclusive (Lori Piotrowski) – One of the reasons unions are so effective is because they never give up on an issue. Much like a dog pulling on his chew toy, union reps tug and tug and tug until they pull it out of their opponents’ hands. Today, however, unions and the National Labor Relations Board, are letting go of an issue. This is likely to be a temporary slow down. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) [...]
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