NLRB

Union Activity - September 21, 2007

Decertification Filed

By 79 employees at National Car Rental represented by ILWU.

Union Activity - September 7, 2007

Elections Scheduled

For 7 canine handlers and security officers at the Honolulu facility of Akal Security, Inc. (UGSOA) on September 21, 2007.
For 249 employees at Schofied Army Base location of BAE Systems & Dellew Corporation (IAM) on October 12, 2007.

Union Activity - August 24, 2007

Election Results

Union win – Employees at Kaiser Foundation Hospital and Kaiser Foundation Health Plan voted 8 for HNA to 0 for “no union.”
Results pending – Employees at Sheraton Keauhou Bay Resort and Spa; TN of Starwood Hotels and Resorts voted 3 for ILWU to 2 for “no union” with 1 challenged vote.

Petition Filed

( Categories : NLRB )

Union Activity - August 10, 2007

Election Results

Union win – Employees at Honsador Lumber Corporation voted 3 for ILWU to 2 for “no union.”
Union win - IV unit RNs at Queen’s Medical Center voted 8 for HNA to 5 for “no union.”

Election Scheduled

( Categories : NLRB )

Union Activity - July 27, 2007

Election Scheduled

For 10 full-time and part-time home health care RNs at Kaiser Foundation Hospital and Kaiser Foundation Health Plan (HNA) on August 10, 2007.

Petition Withdrawn

By ILWU to represent 6 employees at Sheraton Keauhou Bay Resort & Spa; TN of Starwood Hotels & Resorts.

Hypothetical Description Does Not Warrant New Election Says NLRB

A labor consultant who described a hypothetical employer’s ability to stall negotiations did not engage in objectionable conduct in a union representation election, a divided National Labor Relations Board rules. The union lost the election and alleged that the statements was in effect a threat by the employer that electing the union would be futile.

( Categories : NLRB )

Union Activity - July 13, 2007

Elections Scheduled

For 6 full-time, part-time and casual truck drivers, freight receivers, order fillers and warehouse workers at Honsador Lumber Corporation.

For 16 full and part-time RNs in the IV unit at Queen’s Medical Center.

Petition Filed

( Categories : NLRB )

NLRB Majority Says Prove How Long Union Salt Would Have Worked

Changing its previous stance, the National Labor Relations Board now rules 3-2 that in back pay penalties involving a union “salt,” it will no longer presume that employment would have continued indefinitely from the date of discrimination against the union organizer until a valid offer of reinstatement is made.

( Categories : NLRB )

Union Activity - June 29, 2007

Petitions Filed

( Categories : NLRB )

Union Activity - May 4, 2007

Decertification Election Held

Union win – Employees at AOAO Honolulu Park Place voted 5 for Hawaii United Independent Workers to 3 for “no union.”

Union Organizer’s Profane Outburst Not Protected

Written warnings issued to an employee for using profane and insubordinate language in an open work area while engaged in union solicitation was not an unfair labor practice, the National Labor Relations Board rules in a split decision.

( Categories : NLRB )