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"Respect" Would Affect Many New Mexico Workers

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Monday, April 9, 2007   


Permission to unionize for those who don’t really supervise is the goal of a bill recently introduced in Congress. The so-called “RESPECT” Act would reverse a decision by the National Labor Relations Board that prevents thousands of New Mexico workers from joining a union by reclassifying them as supervisors. Christine Trujillo with the New Mexico Federation of Labor says one example is charge nurses.

"They really wouldn’t have had supervisory positions, but would have categorized them as supervisors. It was just a big fat mistake on behalf of the NLRB."

The RESPECT Act would also reaffirm the right to unionize for millions of pilots, teachers and reporters. The NLRB argued that such workers could be considered supervisors because they occasionally direct other employees, such as orderlies and teacher’s aides.

Trujillo notes one employee group especially vulnerable to the NLRB decision is teachers.

"With the way things have been, our teachers could have been considered supervisors because they oversee educational assistants. That would have created the same kind of chaos."

The new legislation is called the Re-empowerment of Skilled and Professional Employees and Construction Tradeworkers Act – "RESPECT" for short. It would overturn the NLRB’s “Kentucky River” rulings of October 2006.


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