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Vol. 46, Nos. 2286-2328, pp. 1-1298
Jan. 6 - Nov. 10, 2009

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    UAN
    UFT
    ULPs
    UMTA
    UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS
      – Discovery, firm must respond to requests by former supervisor fired for refusal to recant charge that firm used illegal workers (U.S., rev grant), 146
      – Employment verification
    UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION
      – State and local
        See specific states
    UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICES (ULPs)
      – Bad faith, Air Force insistence that union bargain for new pact after portion rejected improper, union attempts to contact labor relations officer sufficient (FLRA), 571
      – Bargaining refusal, NLRB refusal to talk with consolidated union certified as employee representative unlawful (FLRA), 296; NLRB to appeal ULP finding, Meisburg says, 426
      – Conn., union members may pursue class action that layoffs for budget shortfall was retaliation for membership and exercising 1st Amend. rights (Conn.), 934
      – Discipline, issuance without bargaining of guidelines that change working conditions unlawful (Vt.), 321
      – Flagrant misconduct, Neb. labor relations commission used proper standard to determine whether police sergeant's union newsletter article was protected speech (Neb.), 141
      – Hiring long-term substitute who was not bargaining unit member, Neb. Indus. Rel. Comm'n had jurisdiction to find ULP (Neb.), 1229
      – Layoffs, Cal. may not compel PERB to issue complaint, no bargaining duty for layoffs based on financial crisis (Cal. Ct. App.), 414
      – Overtime, Boston implementation of new method of calculation without bargaining was ULP despite compliance with FLSA (Mass.), 474
      – Pay system outside GS, SEC unilaterally implementing before bargaining complete unlawful (D.C. Cir.), 808
      – Qualified immunity, Mass. sheriff who decommissioned jail officers for union activities and support for rival has no protection (1st Cir.), In Brief, 478
      – Representation rights, barring union representative from administrative actions after BOP worker firing lawful (FLRA), 779
    UNIFORMED SERVICES EMPLOYMENT AND REEMPLOYMENT RIGHTS ACT (USERRA)
      – Complaint deadline, veteran who filed suit 13 years after being Chicago refused to hire has no claim, 2009 amendment removing limitations period not retroactive (7th Cir.), 1071
      – Disability bias, DOJ charges Cal. correctional facility failed to offer comparable job to injured veteran after discharge (E.D. Cal.), 556
      – Discipline, CFTC worker failed to prove charges against him unsubstantiated or that military service motivated firing (Fed. Cir.), 1286
      – Discipline, DOJ claims firefighter suspended and put on probation after active Nat'l Guard duty (D. Kan.), 38
      – Hours of work, no violation in discontinuing policy letting police officers to make up shifts missed for National Guard training on days off (7th Cir), 737
      – Nev., DOJ charges chief deputy controller denied reinstatement after return from active duty, continues high priority on enforcement (D. Nev.), 763
      – Promotion exams, Chicago lawfully offered police officers on active duty chance to take test at foreign sites off military bases (7th Cir.), In Brief, 506
      – Promotions, DOJ charges Milwaukee Police Dep't refused retroactivity to officer unable to take exam while on active duty (E.D. Wis.), 833
      – Promotions, VA nursing assistant denied promotions failed to prove veteran status affected (Fed. Cir., In Brief), 1294
      – Reinstatement, DOJ charges Ala. Mental Health Dep't with refusal to restore medical assistant after return from Iraq (M.D. Ala.), 38
      – Reservists denied reemployment rights, DOJ files suits against Fresno, Cal. and Newark, N.J. public schools (E.D. Cal., D.N.J.), 640
      – Tour of duty, firing postal worker for taking excessive military leave unlawful but whether non-military career abandoned at issue (Fed. Cir.), 1001
      – Veterans Employment Rights Realignment Act
        See LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, HR 1089
      – Veterans' preferences, Army disregarded rights of applicant for civilian Army job whose military documents were disregarded to show experience (Fed. Cir.), 1034
      – Wounded Veteran Job Security Act
        See LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, HR 466, S 1607
    UNIFORMS
    UNION DUES
    UNIONS
      – Cal., unionization growing at faster rate than rest of country, UCLA study, 1065
      – Elections for representation
      – Internal elections
        See specific unions
      – Membership
        – – AFL-CIO report, June, 2007 to June 2009, 1095
        – – BLS report, 2008, 132
      – Mergers and affiliation
    UNITED FEDERATION OF TEACHERS (UFT)
      – N.Y.C., pact attained on pension modification, 762
    UNIVERSITIES
    URBAN MASS TRANSIT ACT (UMTA)
      – Immunity, Tex. law protection from union claims for pay and benefits not barred, UTU must file new grievance for failure to pay (Tex.), 110; Sup. Ct. lets decision stand (U.S., rev den), 718
    U.S. MARSHALS SERVICE (USMS)
    USAF (AIR FORCE)
    USAID
    USCG (COAST GUARD)
    USCIS
    USDA
    USERRA
    USFS
    USMS (U.S. MARSHALS SERVICE)
    USPS
    UTAH
      – Compressed workweeks, shift to 4-day workweeks has not generated expected energy cost savings, official says, 1255
      – Employment eligibility, bill clarifying 2008 law requiring public employers and contractors to use E-Verify or other verification system signed, 404
      – Voluntary Contrib. Act, no free speech violation in state law banning public workers from using payroll deductions for political contributions (10th Cir., vac and rem), 526
    UTILITIES
      – D.C. Water & Sewer Auth.
        – – Disability bias, ADAAA not retroactive, physically impaired worker who did not raise significant limit on major life activity has no claim for accommodation (D.C. Cir.), 946
        – – Race bias., appeal of class certification not filed within 10 days untimely (D.C. Cir.), In Brief, 570
      – Memphis Light, Gas, and Water Div., worker who claimed race bias in promotion denial had no proof of pretext (6th Cir.), 1135

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