All workers, union and non-union, public and private, have their workplace rights up for grabs, AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Tefere Gebre says.
Sometime this month, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide if workers still have a right to a voice in the workplace, he told the American Constitution Society, a coalition of progressive attorneys and jurists, including pro-worker labor lawyers. Gebre did not differentiate between classes or types of workers.
The way Gebre and many union leaders see it, the answer to that question will be no.
WASHINGTONBy a strictly party-line vote all 50 voting Republicans for, all 46 voting Democrats and both independents against the Senate gave Republicans a National Labor Relations Board majority by naming corporate attorney John Ring to its sole vacant seat.
Organized labor did not flatly oppose Rings nomination, but questioned whether he could set aside his pro-corporate track past to implement federal labor laws goals of encouraging collective bargaining and labor-management peace.
WASHINGTONContinued Trump administration stalling on whether huge amounts of steel imports are a national security threat stalling symbolized by a secret report the Commerce Department sent to the president upset both Steelworkers President Leo Gerard and steel-area Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio.
After all the time spent studying the issue and all the evidence the union, Kaptur andother witnesses presented about worldwide steel production overcapacity, particularly fromChina, the conclusion should be obvious, the two said.
