Long Island Health Employee Challenges Federal Labor Board Policy After Board Blocks Her and Coworkers from Voting Out SEIU Union

Laura Gallo, a senior patient representative at Sun River Health, is asking the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to overturn a regional NLRB official’s decision blocking her and her coworkers from having a vote to remove officials of the 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East union from their workplace. Gallo is receiving free legal aid from National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys. […]

“Ms. Gallo’s case pulls back the curtain to show how stacked NLRB policies are against individual workers,” commented National Right to Work Foundation President Mark Mix. “Using a filing time technicality to snatch away the only opportunity hundreds of Sun River employees will have in years to exercise their right to vote on whether 1199SEIU union officials deserve to remain in control over them is outrageous by itself. But the root of these arbitrary time restrictions is the ‘contract bar’ – a policy which lets union bosses and employers unilaterally enforce contracts that block workers from voting the union out. It’s hard to think of a clearer example of a standard that prioritizes union bosses’ power over workers’ choice.

“President Trump’s new appointees to the NLRB must look to the stories of workers like Ms. Gallo as glaring evidence of why the ‘contract bar’ and similar restrictions need to be removed,” Mix added.

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