By: For federal contractors, a hundred little compliance plans - Overlawyered

For federal contractors, a hundred little compliance plans - Overlawyered — Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:45:15 +0000

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By: Chris Hoey

Chris Hoey — Wed, 20 Aug 2014 19:07:16 +0000

Walmart did in fact have a meat department organized, and went top prepackaged precut meat only, thereby removing the “craft” nucleus the NLRB used to justify the separate unit.

By: Hugo S. Cunningham

Hugo S. Cunningham — Tue, 19 Aug 2014 22:36:49 +0000

I read somewhere 10-20 years ago that Walmart does not carry fresh meat because, when they started up their grocery business, in-store butchers showed a propensity to vote for unions.

By: Chris Hoey

Chris Hoey — Tue, 19 Aug 2014 22:03:00 +0000

Re Macy’s “micro units:” This is really not a surprise to those of us who have a long memory, as for over 40 years the activist NLRB has chipped away at department store units. I was with the NLRB in the 60’s, during the Kennedy-Johnson era when they were finding units of “selling” and “non-selling” employees, i.e., separating sales clerks from stock employees in Allied Stores of Paramus, and Lord & Taylors. I also was the hearing officer in Bambergers Paramus when the Board granted separate unit status to the Auto Centers. (That case had special handling when a directive came from Washington to send petition for that unit to hearing despite the fact the Region had dismissed an identical petition that the Teamsters had previously filed. The instruction were to bypass the Regional Director’s decision making authority and send the record directly to Washington.
Also, if you delve into the situation dating back to the 30’s, you will find that many department stores under units owing their origin had many micro units under their roofs. You’d find units confined to Misses and Ladies Shoes, Men’s Shoes, Window Decorators, Stock Handlers, Deliverymen, etc. In Variety Stores (Woolworth, Kresge, S H Kress, etc., there could be found units restricted to the soda fountains among others.
To an old Labor lawyer such as me, this does not come as a surprise, given the low percentage of private sector employees who are union members, and retailers will have to cope with this issue for the foreseeable future. The unions are ruining out of revenue sources, and the NLRB out of things to do to justify its existence.

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