AFA Pushes Violation of Federal Mediation Regs [Liberal Assault Progresses.]

Alliance for Worker Freedom ^ | 2011-03-04 | Billy Gribbin

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...It was at the behest of the her organization that the NMB threw out over 75 years worth of precedent last year in instituting a "minority rule" for union elections: now that a tiny minority of employees can force collective bargaining upon their peers as long as an opposing majority remains silent, it's no wonder that Delta would make every effort for its employees to be cognizant of the election (which in no way violates the law). It seems that AFA's president explicitly opposes workers participating in the democratic process, if the results are not to her liking.

The meat of Shook’s argument, namely, that Delta viciously discriminates against pre-merger Northwest Airlines employees (former AFA members) by withholding their Profit Sharing Plans sounds damning, but carefully omits some crucial facts. For 60 years it has been the policy of the National Labor Relations Board that “voting is to occur in a ‘laboratory’ in which an experiment may be conducted, under conditions as nearly ideal as possible, to determine the uninhibited desires of employees.” [General Shoe Corp., 77 N.L.R.B. 124, 127 (1948)] Extending profit sharing benefits to pre-merger Northwest Airlines workers would heavily taint “laboratory conditions,” a fact which the AFA had previously recognized...

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The Left wants to own the sky.

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