I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
City of Albuquerque bus and van drivers want to vote on changing union affiliations, but they say the city’s administration is setting up roadblocks to the vote. On Wednesday they filed a report with the city’s labor board, according to a report from Veritas New Mexico.
Rather than allowing the workers to hold the vote on who will represent them, the mayor’s new Chief Administrator Officer Robert Perry sent [drivers' attorney Paul] Livingston two letters reviewed by Veritas NM. In those letters, Perry claims the workers must first decertify the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 624, which also represents City water authority employees, and later provide a copy of NMTU’s Constitution and Bylaws, and then wait 12 months before having its election.
“Because an existing union represents this group of employees any process must be under Section H,” Perry wrote.
But Livingston said he doesn’t believe that section applies to their current request.
“Section H refers to ‘decertification’ of an existing union, not recognition of a union having majority support,” Livingston wrote in his complaint.
