{"id":1866,"date":"2010-05-10T13:57:02","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T13:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1866"},"modified":"2010-05-10T13:57:02","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T13:57:02","slug":"subtle_changes_in_union_rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1866","title":{"rendered":"Subtle Changes In Union Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/news\/article\/65562\">CNS News<\/a>&nbsp;posted an Associated Press story today about a seemingly minor change that has been made by the National Mediation Board in the way companies unionize.&nbsp; On Monday, the Obama Administration changed a 76-year old rule regarding union elections.&nbsp; Under the new rule, a company would recognize a union if a simple majority of workers who cast ballots favored&nbsp;organizing a union.&nbsp; Under the previous law, a majority of the total number of workers was needed&#8211;if a worker did not cast a ballot, it was counted as a &#8216;no&#8217; vote.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>According to the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><em>&#8220;The change puts the airline and railroad industries under the same procedures as most other companies, which are overseen by the National Labor Relations Board.&#8221;&nbsp; <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The unions are hoping to use to new rule to organize unions in some of the major airlines.&nbsp; It will be interesting to see how this plays out.&nbsp; The recent recess appointment of Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board was supposed to pave the wave for &#8216;card check&#8217; without having to go through the legislative process.&nbsp; It may be possible that with this new rule in effect, card check may not be necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNS News&nbsp;posted an Associated Press story today about a seemingly minor change that has been made by the National Mediation Board in the way companies unionize.&nbsp; On Monday, the Obama Administration changed a 76-year old rule regarding union elections.&nbsp; Under &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1866\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}