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FILE NAME Painters and Allied Trades PAINT DATE 0000 DOC PAINT077 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Article from Painters and Allied Trades Journal _| NLRB Overturns - monitoringand respirator require- ments This subsection gives employa choice sample air frequently to essure low levels or institute protec- ons that assure NO exposure to as- hestos A separate subsection on air monitoring requirements is included to address work in Category B or C. making in addition to the Emergency Temporary Standard Recently OSHA's Construction Advisory Com- mittee composed of labor and man- mously that a separate asbestos stan- dard for construction be prepared by OSHA The construction industry has been ignored by OSHA in its health standard setting process for too long Perhaps in the very important new proposed regulations on asbestos the building trades will finally get some of the protections they need and de- serve For further information on asbestos and the new proposed standards. please write to IBPAT 1750 New York Avenue N.W. Washing ton D.C. 20006 Members of the BCTD Safety and Health Committee's special subcommittee on the asbestos standard for construction are left to right Marrion Parsons Labor- International ers Robert Krull Roofers International Gerry McCarry Asbestos . general Workers Elihu Leifer BCTD counsel Joe Adam Plumbers and Pipe- fitters George Smith IBEW John Barnhart Roofers International Rod Wolford IBPAT Health and Lapping Joiners Foley BCTD Jim Safety director Joe Durst Carpenters and BCTD Health and Safety director Kevin Job Protections appointed major- The new ity of the National Labor Relations Board has reversed a decision that supported labor's position an im- portant transfer case It re- cently overturned at the same time the tested precedent on which the decision was based Siding squarely with employers in the board's degree policy reversal were Chairman Donald L. Dotson and members Robert P. Hunter and Patricia Diaz Dennis all Reagan ap- pointees Strongly dissenting was Don A. Zimmerman the lone holdover from the Reagan NLRB ~ NLRB According the presentan majority it is no longer an*unfair a labor practice for an employer to lay off workersin a plant where their un- ion had refused to take a contract 7 pay cut and transfer their work to another plant where workersweren't specifi- where represented by a union and wage rates were lower Unless the union contract cally prohibits such a transfer of work thenew NLRB held that sort of con- . ductis allowed The only requirement is that the transfer of work be for eco- -, anti- from nomic reasons and not union motivation Just 14 months earlier a 3-0 deci- os sion byan NLRB panel had takenan opposite position in clearasaccord with what then was viewed as firmly established precedentPresident '- AFL President Lane Kirkland . speaking to an Industrial UnionDept. : conference the day after the NLRB's reversal lashed out at what hetermed ttihoenRoefagtahne A: dministration's "revolu- tion is " Auto Workers involved workers at the Milwaukee