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AFSCME vs. NMTU LITIGATIONt
Court
AFSCME
v. NMTU, City, & Labor Board, D-202-CV-2011-08899 (Judge Nash)
AFSCME
v. NMTU, City, & Labor Board, D-202-CV-2011-11682 (Judge Butkus)
NMTU PETITION
FOR RECOGNITION (3/10/11)
C.A.O.
Rob Perry's Response Letter
(3/11/11)
Rob Perry's 2nd Response Letter (3/17/11)
NOTICE (Posted by NMTU, 3/14/11)
AFSCME's Motion to Dismiss (4/6/11)
NMTU's NOTICE & 2nd PETITION FOR RECOGNITION
(5/28/11)
NMTU's PROHIBITED PRACTICE COMPLAINT, LB-11-05
(3/24/11)
NMTU's Supplemental PPC Complaint, LB-11-05
City's "Answer" to Supplemental PPC Complaint
(7/13/11)
Notice of Violation of the New Mexico Open
Meetings Act
(3/28/11)
NMTU's Request for Inspection of Public Records
(3/31/11)
Albuquerque Transit Union Election Still Uncertain
by Peter St. Cyr, VeritasNM, (April 13, 2011)
City Lacks Functioning Labor Board
by Dan McKay, Albuquerque Journal (April 6, 2011)
Albuquerque Officials
Block Union Vote
by Peter St. Cyr; VeritasNM.com
(March 23, 2011)
HOW TO RESPOND TO AN IRS NOTICE
OF LOSS OF NONPROFIT STATUS
NEWS
Wednesday, March 30,
2011
Drivers Want To Change Unions
Copyright © 2011 Albuquerque
Journal
Journal Staff Writer
ABQRide is ground zero for another labor fight.
At least 120 of City Hall's
transit drivers want to ditch their AFSCME union and realign
themselves instead with the New Mexico Transportation Union,
according to documents submitted to the city labor board.
The NMTU was the union that represented bus drivers until 2008,
when AFSCME won an election to take over.
But there's a catch this time: The
drivers who want a change say Mayor Richard Berry's administration
won't order a vote on the issue.
Paul Livingston, an attorney for
the New Mexico Transportation Union, filed a complaint with the
labor board last week. He alleges the city has improperly refused to
recognize NMTU as the bargaining unit for drivers or to let
employees vote on the issue.
More than 120 drivers have signed
membership cards with NMTU, Livingston's complaint says.
But the Berry administration isn't
convinced.
Rob Perry, the city's chief
administrative officer, said in a letter to NMTU that its petition
"is defective in several critical respects." The transit workers are
already covered by an AFSCME union, so that group must be
decertified before NMTU is recognized.
Decertifying the union involves
the gathering of more petition signatures.
"We don't have a preference for
one union or another," Perry said in an interview. "We don't have a
dog in this fight."
He said the city simply wants the
union groups to follow the process outlined in city ordinance.
Livingston, however, maintains
Perry's interpretation of the process is at odds with what's
happened in the past.
Ernest Lucero, a bus driver and
chairman of the NMTU effort, said AFSCME isn't much of a presence
and drivers want a change.
"They're never there. They never
show up," Lucero said of AFSCME.
But Steve Griego, president of the
AFSCME union that covers bus drivers, blue-collar workers and
others, said his group has made real improvements for drivers,
including the start of an arbitration system to settle some
disputes.
"It's actually gotten better for
the drivers," Griego said. "The only problem is they're underpaid,
and we're trying to resolve it."
The labor board has a meeting
scheduled for mid-April.
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AGREEMENT
EXPIRED AFSCME
Contract
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