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departl11ent of Research and Education The Relapse of Labor-Management Relations • DUring the laS[ four years, the atmos· phere for labor-management relations In thiS country has deteriorated markedly. With the firing of the al T trafAc controllers in the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATeDI, the Rcag:ln AUl1linistratioLl, in essen ce, sellt a signal lhtlt it would condone management's irresponsible conduct in laborm:mllg~mcnt relations. 111c dud executive officer at Greyhound was therehy cncoura,.gcd to demand concessions from the company's orgamzed employees under threats of hiring strikebreakers. Such threa ts have been ea rned even further by management at Phelps Dodgel and a fullfledged, union·blIStingcamp:ugn, aCcom · pamed by the busing-in of scabs escorted by sute police and the nauonal guard, IS bemg waged against ItS orgamzed workers. Continental Alllmcs used bankruptcy as a pretext for dlscardmg the comract It had negotiated with its work· ers. Long-established labor·management relauonships and even la ws se tting the boundanes of such rei;ltlonshlps arc un· der severe strain. [t IS the law of this land that workers have the nglll to orgamze and to ba rga m collectively. The National Labor Rela· tions Act of 1935 (the Wa.gner Act) establi shed the principle that employees should be protected in their rights to organize into labor organlzauons and to bargall1 collectively conce ming their wages and working eondilions. The act forbids cmployers to engage m five spe Cific unfall lalxJI plolctices: I ) mlerfenng with, restraining. or coe rcing employees 111 the exerci se of their n ghts to organize, h:lrgrun collectively, and engage in other concerted activities for thelf mutual aid Of protecllon; 2) donunallng or mterfer- 109 with the formation or admlfllStratlon of any labor organization or conmbullng financial or other support to it; 3) encouraglOg Of dlscouragmg membership 10 any labor org:l0l7 ..1Ilon hy discrimination with regard to hlflng or tenure or conditions of employment, subject to an exceptton for valid uOion-securlty agreementsj 4) dlschargmg or otherwise msenmmaungagainsl an employee because he has flied charges or given lesllmony under the act; and 51 refusmg to bargain coll ectively with the m310my representat ive of hiS employees. The National Labor Rcl:ltlons Act sct lip election machmery to pernul em- 111 1 IBEW JOURNAL I NOVEMBER t 984 ployees to choose their collecllve bargammg represcmatives, and it created the Nallonal Labor Relations Board IN LRB! to adnllOlster and enforce the acl. Passage of the act led to a r3pld increllse in union membershIp and a betterment of 111 bor-mana.gement rebltions that ex is ted until the current envi ronment of dI sregard for labor legisla. lion and a concerted effort at Uluonbusung began. NLR8 11le N LRB, contr,lrY to ItS purpose, has become a tool of management-dclaylOg, denymg. and destroYlllg the nghts of workers to organi ze and to bar':;3m col Iccuvcly. The Reagan-:tPPOI Oled malor It y has overturned ea rlier deCISIons and has shown ItS antl-uOlon bias III case after case. The pfc~ent bal..klog of NLRB cases IS more than double that of fiv e years ago. The lengthy decislon·makmg proccs:'l iii causlOg economic hardships for many workers and theIr families and is discouraglllg other workers. Employers count on delays In the NLRB process to dishearten workers and to work III management's favo r agalOst UIIIUIIS. The de· lays hold up certifications, glvmg m3nagement excuses for not ba rgalll lOg new contr3cts Wnrhrll arc left 10 the lurch, awaiting final decisions on their charges of the same unfair labor practices that arc prohibited by the National LlIbor Relations Act. ~ome Iald-off and fired workers arc stili Without theIr jobs, yeMs after their cases were presented to the NLRB. Some workers are stili waIting for a lIOIon and a first contract after electIOns that were won twO, three, and four years ago. Union leaders and sup· porters who were fired for union aCll vlty become frust rated because they have nOt been retnst:Hed after NLRB deC ISIOns upholdmg theIr unton's posItion In the past, many Republtcans and Democrats have served Impartially on the boa rd and ha ve contributed to peaceful and endunng labor-management re- CONSUMER PRICE INDEX-CANADA AVERAGE SOURCE: STATISTICS CANADA AUGUST, 1904 19B1 = 100 Heallh & Rller .. - AU 110m, Tran.por- PerlOnal lion & Month 'n. Combined 'ood Ho .... lng Clo,hlng Ull10n Cara R .. dlng August t984 122.9 118.5 1247 112.6 125.5 123.5 1209 July 1984 122.9 119.4 1244 11~ , 1 12S.1 123.0 120.4 June 1984 122.2 118.3 124.1 112.5 124.8 122.9 118.8 May 1984 121.7 11S.8 124.2 112.5 123.4 122.9 11 9.0 Aprit 1984 121.5 117.2 124.1 112.4 123.0 122.7 11 8.1 March 1984 1212 116.8 123.8 112.5 122.8 121.3 117.S February 1984 120.9 115.9 123.2 111 .5 124.1 121.0 117.5 August 1983 1185 11? fi 120.8 1103 122.6 119.0 117.3 August 1982 112.3 August 1981 101 .6 August 1980 90.1 August 1979 614 NOTE Canada', Consumer Price Inde_1oI allle"" remalt\8d unc:hanged al 122 9 lor tne monIl'I 01 Augusl. '964 The inctea5CI In CPI durv'lg the past year was"" poInItI or 3 7"10 Percent chaI1Qe between two dales II calculated by &Ublractlng 1M lode_ rLlmbef lor tne 88fIief dale !rom thaI lor !he later date and dMdlng 1M resuh by the Iodex fIIIIT1bef lor Itle earfie< de". IIlen mulbp1ylng by 100 EXAMPlE: For Itle period 01 August. 1983IO.-.ugust. 1!184 1229 '185 "" lnde~pu."I!J . .... dtv.:led by 118.5 - 037" ' 00 - 3~ Prapared by: Department 01 Rese8/ch and Edueallon. IBEW. 5eplembef, '934 ) •
" lations; but now the deck has been stacked against the workers. The declSlon-mak· 109 process IS takmg cnmely too long. and $
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