First Student transportation workers join CSEA under new NLRB rules filing and transmission of election petitions and other documents; • Ensures that employees, employers and unions receive timely information they need to understand and participate in the representation case process; • Eliminates or reduces unnecessary litigation, duplication and delay; • Adopts best practices and uniform procedures across regions; • Requires that additional contact information (personal telephone numbers and email addresses) be included in voter lists to the extent that information is available to the employer to enhance a free, fair exchange of ideas by permitting other parties to the election to communicate with voters about the election using modern technology; and • Allows parties to consolidate all election-related appeals to the board into a single appeals process. In addition to the expedited protocol, employees are also now permitted to use company email for union organizing. — Jill Asencio CSEA Central Region President Colleen Wheaton speaks with actor Dwier Brown, who played the father of Kevin Costner’s character in the movie Field of Dreams, at the union’s recent “Don’t Zone Out, Get Home Safe” baseball game at NBT Bank Stadium in Syracuse. CSEA sponsors the game in conjunction with the Syracuse Chiefs to raise awareness of the union’s Don’t Zone Out campaign. Behind them is the union’s billboard. Wheaton and Dwier were on hand to throw out the ceremonial first pitches for the game. CHESTER — An overwhelming majority of 52 bus drivers, monitors and mechanics working for First Student America voted to join CSEA. The private sector workers, who serve the Chester Union Free and the Florida Union Free school districts in Orange County, came to CSEA in the early spring seeking to improve worker and fleet safety, benefits and wages, and strengthen their labor-management relationship. This was the first CSEA election under the new National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) expedited election protocol. Specifically, the NLRB, which oversees labor matters CSEA member remembered 10 years after workplace death CSEA Village of Ossining Unit members, union officers and village officials joined together recently to dedicate a tree and memorial stone to fallen village sanitation worker John-Paul Rodrigues, who died on the job in July 2005 after falling from the back of a village sanitation truck. Officials later renamed the village operations center, which includes the highway garage, after Rodrigues. Village of Ossining Unit President Mike Duffy and unit members arranged for the memorial stone to for private sector employers, changed some of its rules to modernize and use new technologies, make its procedures more transparent and uniform across regions and eliminate unnecessary litigation and delay. These changes are a step in the right direction for the board. NLRB officials noted in a memo that “The board will be better able to fulfill its duty to protect employees’ rights by fairly, efficiently and expeditiously resolving questions of representation.” The NRLB issued the following new protocol guidelines: • Provides for electronic continue to honor Rodrigues’ memory and show he has not been forgotten. In the photo, CSEA Southern Region President Billy Riccaldo speaks about Rodrigues and the union’s active role in improving safe working conditions for sanitation workers in the 10 years since Rodrigues’ death as Duffy looks on. Also speaking at the ceremony were Duffy, CSEA Occupational Safety and Health Specialist Jeff Hyman and Rodrigues’ father, Joe Rodrigues, who remembered his son as an “energetic and caring young man.” 12 The Work Force July-August 2015
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