Labor Board Says Franchise Workers Can Bargain With Parent Company.
Source: nyt
The National Labor Relations Board in Washington on Thursday made it substantially easier for unions to bargain for higher wages and benefits, potentially opening the door for organized workers at fast-food chains and other franchises to negotiate with corporations like McDonalds and Yum Brands, rather than with individual restaurants, where they might have a harder time achieving their goals.
This is about, if employees decide they want to bargain collectively, who can be required to come to the bargaining table to have negotiations that are meaningful, said Wilma B. Liebman, a former N.L.R.B. chairwoman who wrote a crucial dissent in a 2002 case on the subject.
The ruling, which may eventually be challenged in court in a variety of individual disputes, changes the definition of a crucial employer-employee relationship that had held in some form since the 1980s. Now, a company that hires a contractor to staff its facilities may be considered a so-called joint employer of the workers at that facility, even if it does not actively supervise them.
A union representing those workers would now be legally entitled to bargain with the upstream company, not just the contractor, under federal labor law.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/28/business/labor-board-says-franchise-workers-can-bargain-with-parent-company.html?_r=0
RandySF
(58,835 posts)progree
(10,908 posts)innumerable regulatory positions. And appoints judges too, of course.
People who throw away their vote in the general election on some 3rd party Mr./Ms./Mx. Pure And Wonderful that is polling 5%, take note.
Kingofalldems
(38,458 posts)h2ebits
(644 posts)Would someone please provide a link to the actual document from the NLRB? I think that this ruling may just possibly be the foot in the door to eliminate some of the "cost saving measures" arguments being used to privatize workers in the public sector.
elleng
(130,908 posts)I haven't read it so can't confirm or deny your supposition.
http://apps.nlrb.gov/link/document.aspx/09031d4581d99106
SIU_Blue
(573 posts)Here it is:
http://apps.nlrb.gov/link/document.aspx/09031d4581d99106
A huge decision to help us end the subcontracting/perma-temp shell games!