National Labor Relations Board rejects Murray's imposed contract

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?news_6_4494

By Steve Share, Labor Review editor
1 June 2010

MINNEAPOLIS - A contract Murray’s restaurant imposed on UNITE HERE Local 17 members must be rescinded, according to a decision by the Region 18 office of the National Labor Relations Board, Local 17 President Nancy Goldman reported.
Goldman said she expected a pending settlement will restore the prior contract and its terms and conditions.

Murray’s imposed a contract March 1 after workers twice voted to reject contract offers that would mean significant concessions. Read story: http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?news_6_4409


Murray's Restaurant in downtown Minneapolis has been a union establishment for many decades.

Photo by Steve Share

The union maintained that Murray’s never really bargained in good faith and filed charges with the National Labor Relations Board, arguing that Murray’s imposed the contract “prior to reaching impasse.”

“They were rushing to impose because they wanted what they wanted to impose,” Goldman said. “What they did is unlawful… They wanted to break the union.”

Murray’s, located in downtown Minneapolis, has been a union house through three generations of family ownership. Many Murray’s employees have worked there 10, 20, 30 years or more, thanks to union wages and benefits.

FULL story at link.

Steve Share edits the Labor Review, the official publication of the Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation. Learn more at www.minneapolisunions.org

[Earth Bound Misfit]

1. Let's not do any cartwheels over this (or any other) NLRB decision.

While it is certainly good news and is BETTER THAN LOSING it, Murrays will now avail themselves of the myriad appeals and stall tactics built into the antediluvian system we not so affectionately call Amurkin Labor Law as defined by the archaic NLRA & it's toothless governing body, the NLRB. Endless litigation, appeals, postponement of hearings, delay after delay after delay.... :banghead: :banghead: All the while, Murrays likely gets to proceed as if they won the original decision. :mad: :mad:

Confessions of a Union Buster, by Martin Jay Levitt, Crown Publishers Inc., 302 pp.,ISBN 0517583305, 9780517583302

Levitt’s first union-busting campaigns introduced him to the most “common strategy among management lawyers.” First, Levitt tells us, “Challenge everything ... then take every challenge to a full hearing ... then prolong each hearing” as long as possible, then “appeal every unfavorable decision.”

According to Levitt there was method to the madness. “If you make the union fight drag on long enough, workers...lose faith, lose interest, lose hope.” Taking away people’s hopes, their aspirations for a better future – that was Levitt’s job.

I HATE being a Gloomy Gus, but it is what it is. If the American populace knew how badly they were being bent over and FV%*ED IN THE ASS EVERY DAY OF THEIR LIVES by the lack of a fair labor law system, they (we) would being storming the Bastille demanding relief. But try to explain it to the average citizen and their eyes glaze over with that thousand yard stare.

Frustrating, don't you think OS?

Kick n Rec

ETA: Whatever happened to that bill...what was it called...the Something Act of Freedom to Choosing Something Something? The Employable Actions of Choosing Freedoms??? I just can't recall...

Whatever happened to it?