<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Labor</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/business/government/nlrb?nav=rss_business/government/nlrb</link><description>Labor</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Union Files Wal-Mart Complaint]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48056-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_business/government/nlrb</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48056-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_business/government/nlrb</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2005 17:05:05 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The United Food and Commercial Workers Union filed an unfair labor practice complaint against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. yesterday, urging federal officials to investigate claims that the retailer's former head of U.S. operations paid people to monitor union activity.]]></description><author> Michael Barbaro and Amy Joyce</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[NHL Files Against NHLPA]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5229-2005Mar27.html?nav=rss_business/government/nlrb</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5229-2005Mar27.html?nav=rss_business/government/nlrb</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2005 17:05:05 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The NHL files an unfair labor practice charge against a players' association policy that would penalize members who become replacement players.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temps Lose Bargaining Rights Won In 2000]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20828-2004Nov29.html?nav=rss_business/government/nlrb</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20828-2004Nov29.html?nav=rss_business/government/nlrb</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2005 17:05:05 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Temporary workers will no longer be able to bargain for job benefits as part of a unit with permanent employees, the National Labor Relations Board has ruled, reversing a Clinton-era precedent.]]></description><author> Amy Joyce</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[D.C. Hotels Seek New Talks, File Complaint]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29569-2004Sep17.html?nav=rss_business/government/nlrb</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29569-2004Sep17.html?nav=rss_business/government/nlrb</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2005 17:05:05 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[As a strike that could cripple the District's hospitality industry looms, employers claim the union has not negotiated in good faith but offered to resume bargaining next week.]]></description><author> Dana Hedgpeth and Neil Irwin</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comcast to Rehire Md. Worker, Ending Union Organizing Case]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40326-2004Aug27.html?nav=rss_business/government/nlrb</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40326-2004Aug27.html?nav=rss_business/government/nlrb</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2005 17:05:05 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Comcast Cable Communications agreed yesterday to reinstate a Rockville man who says he was illegally fired for union organizing activities.]]></description><author> Tim Craig</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Workers' Rights Are Being Rolled Back]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3673-2004Feb24.html?nav=rss_business/government/nlrb</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3673-2004Feb24.html?nav=rss_business/government/nlrb</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2005 17:05:05 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[While the Bush administration is gung-ho for democracy in Iraq and Zimbabwe, there is one place it wants to be sure it never sees the light of day: the American workplace.]]></description><author> Steven Pearlstein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[NLRB Chief Counsel William R. Stewart]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53181-2004Feb18.html?nav=rss_business/government/nlrb</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53181-2004Feb18.html?nav=rss_business/government/nlrb</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2005 17:05:05 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[William Rufus Stewart, 71, an attorney at the National Labor Relations Board for more than three decades, died Feb. 16 at Georgetown University Hospital.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Overtime Changes May Come in March]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48243-2004Jan1.html?nav=rss_business/government/nlrb</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48243-2004Jan1.html?nav=rss_business/government/nlrb</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2005 17:05:05 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Labor Department plans to issue a controversial final rule changing the Fair Labor Standards Act's overtime provisions by the end of March, according to a regulatory plan published by the agency last week in the Federal Register.]]></description><author> Kirstin Downey</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[George L. Powell, 91; Founded Law School]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51333-2003Jul26.html?nav=rss_business/government/nlrb</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51333-2003Jul26.html?nav=rss_business/government/nlrb</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2005 17:05:05 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[George L. Powell, 91, a retired administrative law judge with the National Labor Relations Board who was a founder and past president of what became the law school at George Mason University, died of congestive heart failure July 25 at the Greenspring Village retirement community in Springfield.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Howard Jenkins Jr., 87, Dies; NLRB's First Black Member]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26732-2003Jun6.html?nav=rss_business/government/nlrb</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26732-2003Jun6.html?nav=rss_business/government/nlrb</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2005 17:05:05 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Howard Jenkins Jr., 87, who served on the National Labor Relations Board for 20 years and was its first African American member, died June 3 at Providence Hospital. He had a heart ailment.]]></description><author> Claudia Levy</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journal Hit With NLRB Complaint]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5327-2003Jun2.html?nav=rss_business/government/nlrb</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5327-2003Jun2.html?nav=rss_business/government/nlrb</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2005 17:05:05 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A regional National Labor Relations Board official accused Alexandria-based Journal Newspapers Inc. of unfairly laying off employees and closing offices in an effort to block unionization, according to a complaint filed last week.]]></description><author> Annie Gowen And Amy Joyce</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mets' Piazza Will Spend 'Significant' Time on DL]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4672-2003May17.html?nav=rss_business/government/nlrb</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4672-2003May17.html?nav=rss_business/government/nlrb</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2005 17:05:05 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Mets C Mike Piazza has a severe right groin strain and will spend a "significant" amount of time on the disabled list.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Union Files Complaint On Layoffs At Journals]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11026-2002Dec4.html?nav=rss_business/government/nlrb</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11026-2002Dec4.html?nav=rss_business/government/nlrb</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2005 17:05:05 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Newspaper Guild filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board against Journal Newspapers Inc. yesterday, alleging that the suburban Washington newspaper group laid off nearly all of its Maryland employees to prevent them from unionizing.]]></description><author> Krissah Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Labor Board Is Unfair, Its Own Lawyers Charge]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56999-2002Apr15.html?nav=rss_business/government/nlrb</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56999-2002Apr15.html?nav=rss_business/government/nlrb</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2005 17:05:05 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The lawyers at the National Labor Relations Board think they have uncovered some unfair labor practices. But in this case, it is the lawyers themselves who say they are the victims of "bad faith bargaining" by the people they work for, the NLRB management.]]></description><author> Edward Walsh</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Human Rights Problem on Campus]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48589-2002Apr1.html?nav=rss_business/government/nlrb</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48589-2002Apr1.html?nav=rss_business/government/nlrb</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2005 17:05:05 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[When I became a union organizer after law school in the early 1970s, I cut my teeth on companies notorious at the time for anti-labor policies, such as the textile manufacturer J. P. Stevens and California grape growers.]]></description><author> Lance Compa</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Court Denies Back Pay to Fired Illegal Immigrants]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28187-2002Mar27.html?nav=rss_business/government/nlrb</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28187-2002Mar27.html?nav=rss_business/government/nlrb</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2005 17:05:05 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the federal government may not compel employers to award back pay to undocumented immigrants who were illegally fired for trying to join a labor union.]]></description><author> Charles Lane</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Norton Come, 82, Dies; NLRB Lawyer Since '48]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47463-2002Mar18.html?nav=rss_business/government/nlrb</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47463-2002Mar18.html?nav=rss_business/government/nlrb</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2005 17:05:05 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Norton J. Come, 82, a National Labor Relations Board lawyer since 1948 who played a leading role in most of the cases that have defined modern labor law, died of congestive heart failure March 15 at Sibley Memorial Hospital.]]></description><author> Graeme Zielinski</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hearing Begins Tuesday]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51648-2001Dec3.html?nav=rss_business/government/nlrb</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51648-2001Dec3.html?nav=rss_business/government/nlrb</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2005 17:05:05 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Another week in baseball's quest to eliminate two teams begins Tuesday, with the start of an arbitration hearing that will pit the league against the players' association.]]></description><author> Dave Sheinin</author></item></channel></rss>