Comments on: Obama Likely to Satisfy Left Wing With Labor Appointment http://workforce.com/wpmu/washington/2008/12/02/obama-likely-to-satisfy-left-wing-with-labor-appointment/ An insider's view of how legislation and government regulation influence workforce management. Sun, 8 Nov 2009 04:13:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.3-2.2.1 By: Glenn Stephens http://workforce.com/wpmu/washington/2008/12/02/obama-likely-to-satisfy-left-wing-with-labor-appointment/#comment-11194 Glenn Stephens Tue, 16 Dec 2008 03:38:41 +0000 http://workforce.com/wpmu/washington/2008/12/02/obama-likely-to-satisfy-left-wing-with-labor-appointment/#comment-11194 Wilma Liebman talks Union talk outside her place of employment, but at the NLRB she has hypocritically pursued anti-union and anti-employee policies. Despite eating at the federal trough for more than 12 years, Liebman has openly disparaged long-term federal employees. In a recent mediation, she implied that Board employees lingered on because they couldn\'t cut it in the private sector. Consistent with her disrespectful attitude for long serving Board employees, Liebman has targeted older particularly female employees on her staff for constructive or actual discharge. Three of the attorneys targeted by Liebman were or are among the most veteran at the Board. All of those attorneys were in two or more legally protected categories - all were over 40 and female and two of the three were African American. Despite her defense of labor rights elsewhere, Liebman has aggressively tried to break the Union at the NLRB. Liebman and her managers recently tried to chase the Board union\'s grievance chair, who led the opposition to a new, unfair and discriminatory appraisal system at the Board. That grievance chair, like a Liebman targeted Union vice-president, found work elsewhere before Liebman could fire them. All of the other attorneys targeted by Liebman were among the longest serving and most honored members of the union representing employees at the Board. Her recent anti-employee tirade at an FMCS mediation left all at the table slack jawed. Beside disparaging long term employees, she disparaged the Board union\'s struggle against the unfair appraisal system - claiming the employees should be glad they weren\'t plucking chicken tracheas in poultry processing plants. Liebman was so disliked by her first staff that she had to swap staffs. Eight of the eleven attorneys who served on her staff in the last 2 years, grieved their performance appraisals. Initially Liebman refused to settled any of those grievances but was embarrassed into settling some of them when the Union circulated a press release noting that she had taken a harder line than her Republican cohort. Wilma Liebman talks Union talk outside her place of employment, but at the NLRB she has hypocritically pursued anti-union and anti-employee policies. Despite eating at the federal trough for more than 12 years, Liebman has openly disparaged long-term federal employees. In a recent mediation, she implied that Board employees lingered on because they couldn\’t cut it in the private sector.

Consistent with her disrespectful attitude for long serving Board employees, Liebman has targeted older particularly female employees on her staff for constructive or actual discharge. Three of the attorneys targeted by Liebman were or are among the most veteran at the Board. All of those attorneys were in two or more legally protected categories - all were over 40 and female and two of the three were African American.

Despite her defense of labor rights elsewhere, Liebman has aggressively tried to break the Union at the NLRB. Liebman and her managers recently tried to chase the Board union\’s grievance chair, who led the opposition to a new, unfair and discriminatory appraisal system at the Board. That grievance chair, like a Liebman targeted Union vice-president, found work elsewhere before Liebman could fire them. All of the other attorneys targeted by Liebman were among the longest serving and most honored members of the union representing employees at the Board.

Her recent anti-employee tirade at an FMCS mediation left all at the table slack jawed. Beside disparaging long term employees, she disparaged the Board union\’s struggle against the unfair appraisal system - claiming the employees should be glad they weren\’t plucking chicken tracheas in poultry processing plants.

Liebman was so disliked by her first staff that she had to swap staffs. Eight of the eleven attorneys who served on her staff in the last 2 years, grieved their performance appraisals. Initially Liebman refused to settled any of those grievances but was embarrassed into settling some of them when the Union circulated a press release noting that she had taken a harder line than her Republican cohort.

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