Labor unions protest ’supervisor’ definition

Labor unions are protesting the definition of “supervisors” as held by the National Labor Relations Board. The subject has come to a head in the recent decision by the board in what is labeled as the Kentucky River cases. The cases prevent charge nurses in nursing facilities and lead men and load supervisors in manufacturing facilities from joining unions.
The decision could be significant for union membership. The Economic Policy Institute published a report predicting that more than 30 percent of those employed in 24 occupations would be excluded from union participation because they meet the definition of a supervisor.
Union advocates claim these employees have historically been excluded from the category because they can’t hire, fire or promote employees. But in the board’s definition, these employees are classified as supervisors. The definition doesn’t indicate they have to perform all supervisory functions.
Posted by Angie Holladay

11 Comments

  1. hmmm ...
    Posted November 6, 2006 at 7:54 am | Permalink

    The bigger reason that employers want to classify workers as “supervosors” is to declare them exempt from wage-hour requirements of overtime pay. That time-and-a-half I get after 40 hours is a very importent part of my paycheck.

  2. KSGolfnut
    Posted November 6, 2006 at 9:18 am | Permalink

    Name a point in time when labor unions have NOT been protesting something.

  3. TRACY
    Posted November 6, 2006 at 9:23 am | Permalink

    NUT, sometime between the ‘big bang’ and the Jurassic era.

    That was easy.

  4. Doug
    Posted November 6, 2006 at 9:25 am | Permalink

    According to the NLRB since I don’t supervise any employee I too can be labeled as a supervisor. It’s just another way the Bush regime is trying to hurt the working man and bring down wages.

  5. Wiseman
    Posted November 6, 2006 at 1:19 pm | Permalink

    Another way to break up unions, create a separation.

  6. TRACY
    Posted November 6, 2006 at 1:24 pm | Permalink

    The unions have been “broke” since Ronnie Reagan declared that the striking Air Traffic Controllers would go to jail if they did not return to work.Every GOP admin since then have added more straw to the already broken back of the union camel.

  7. Richard Heckler
    Posted November 6, 2006 at 4:00 pm | Permalink

    Workers Independent News

    http://www.laborradio.org/

  8. John
    Posted November 6, 2006 at 5:17 pm | Permalink

    Kentucky River should be protested by anyone who has to negotiate their own salary. Without the “nuclear threat” of organizing into a union, your wages and benefits are at market rates…You are now competing against third world countries.

    Support labor rights for individualistic Americans at:http://www.myworld.ebay.com/agilepeople

  9. Jed
    Posted November 7, 2006 at 12:18 pm | Permalink

    Interesting thing is, I’ve seen (and worked for) companies where the relationship between the company and the unions was not adversarial. Those companies actually respected their workers, and the management worked out their differences with the unions like decent human beings instead of like pit bulls! I might add that those companies are still in business, long after their competitors bit the dust.

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