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The National Labor Relations Board urged the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday to reject a television station operator's bid to pause an order requiring it to recognize and bargain with a broadcast workers' union, arguing the stay would let the company benefit from violating federal labor law.
Burton White, of Tigard, a retired union official, labor educator, and mediator, passed away Feb. 14 of complications following a stroke. He was 90. White was director of labor relations for the Oregon Nurses Association from 1979 to 1985. Prior to that, from 1969-75, he was director of economic and general welfare for the California Nurses Association. He started working as an arbitrator and mediator in 1988. He was the first executive director of Partners in Construction Cooperation (PICC), a “cooperation committee” in the construction industry that included workers, contractors, finan...
Biden Labor Purge Sparks Legal Challenge Getty Images Graham Piro • February 22, 2021 4:59 am SHARE An Oregon worker is challenging President Joe Biden's day one purge of Trump appointees from a federal agency, arguing that the administration is shielding a major union accused of violating labor law. Jeremy Brown accused the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians Local 51 of illegally siphoning donations from his paycheck, prompting an investigation from the National Labor Relations Board, the federal government's top labor arbiter. The agency ruled in favor of B...
A National Right to Work Foundation-represented cameraman invoked Shakespeare to dispute a union's allegation that his counsel ignored his best interests by arguing acting National Labor Relations Board prosecutor Peter Sung Ohr can't drop a challenge to an agency judge's ruling in a fee dispute.