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Geico activists continue push to unionize, allege abuses by company
June 14, 2023 // Geico is opposed to the employee union effort, Konikoff said. The NLRB continues to investigate a complaint filed on Feb. 23, 2023 alleging that Geico fired an employee last year for engaging in a Section 7 "protected concerted activity." According to Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act a protected concerted activity "only requires two or more employees acting together ('in concert') to improve their hours, pay, working conditions or other aspects of their job.
Engineers frustrated with rails even as others get sick time
May 9, 2023 // Across the industry, CSX has led the way by reaching agreements with most of its unions on sick time. Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific have also announced several sick time deals. Most of these deals provide workers with four days of paid sick time and give them the option to convert three leave days into sick time to give workers a total of seven sick days a year. One of the key remaining concerns for the BLET is that even where the railroads seem willing to give engineers sick time, the railroads generally still want to hold workers accountable for missing work under their strict attendance policies. So even if workers do get sick time, they may not feel free to use it because they would still be penalized for missing work although CSX has said it won’t punish workers for taking sick time.
CSX revamps attendance policy as railroad unions push back on sick time
December 16, 2022 // CSX is among the railroads that used so-called points-based attendance policies to reduce unplanned absences. Under the long-established policies, workers are penalized with points for unscheduled absences, and risk being suspended or fired.