NM Rep: ABC Opposes Union Election Rule Change Because They Want to Intimidate Workers

[Omaha Steve]

http://wepartypatriots.com/wp/2014/05/06/nm-rep-abc-opposes-union-election-rule-change-because-they-want-to-intimidate-workers-2/


Rep. Trujillo

After New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez’s late March de facto “Right-to-Work” pledge, the floodgates opened with anti-union forces across the state ginning up efforts to beat back anything pro-worker anywhere they can. Among those laying on the thick anti-union rhetoric is Roxanne Rivera-Wiest, President of the Associated Builders and Contractors of NM. Rivera-Wiest recently came out against an NLRB rule change that would streamline the union election process. In an op-ed she labels the rules “unfair” and “unnecessary” and ties the idea to President Obama and ‘big labor.”

Very original.

In response, NM Rep. Christine Trujillo wrote an op-ed of her own pointing out that Ms. Rivera-Wiest ignores the effects the NLRB rule change would have on protecting workers from intimidation. As Trujillo puts it, “Rivera-Wiest badly misrepresents the NLRB’s rule change and is misinformed or simply unaware of the types of employee intimidation that the NLRB’s streamlining aims to stop.”

Trujillo, who formerly served as the head of the American Federation of Teachers in NM, went on to describe the ways management would intimidate workers without proper protections:

FULL story at link.