"NLRB Update: Challenging ASARCO's Unfair Labor Practices", 31 March 2020

As was reported to the membership at meetings earlier this year, our Unfair Labor Practice charges allege that ASARCO violated our rights by:

(1) failing to bargain in good faith; (2) engaging in dilatory bargaining tactics; (3) having bargaining table agents and representatives who lacked sufficient authority to bargain; (4) failing to timely provide relevant and necessary bargaining information; (5) unilaterally implementing their “last, best and final offer” when there was no bargaining impasse; (6) implementing a discriminatory Copper Price Bonus proposal; (7) threatening to hire and hiring permanent replacements to replace employees engaged in an unfair labor practice strike; (8) soliciting employees to withdraw their membership in the Unions and cancel their dues checkoff authorizations; (9) removing union literature from employee break areas; and, (10) engaging in surveillance and giving the appearance of surveillance of employees engaged in peaceful Section 7 activities...