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Goshen, Ind. (July 7, 2005)<\/strong> \u2013 Approximately 200 employees at Cequent Towing Product\u2019s Goshen facility have filed a \u201cdeauthorization\u201d petition with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) asking the agency to hold an election to rid their work place of mandatory union dues. The employees filed the petition with free legal aid from National Right to Work Foundation attorneys after the agency has failed for 15 months to address an earlier petition for an election to throw out the union as the Cequent workers\u2019 monopoly representative altogether. While the majority of Cequent workers who signed the earlier \u201cdecertification\u201d petition were awaiting an NLRB election to throw out the union that had been imposed upon them without even the basic protections of a secret ballot election, Cequent entered into a forced unionism contract with the United Steelworkers of America (USWA) union, authorizing the firing of any Cequent worker who refuses to pay forced union dues. Under the National Labor Relations Act, employees have the right to call for a deauthorization election at any time. If 30% or more of the employees in the bargaining unit sign a deauthorization petition, the NLRB will conduct a secret ballot election to determine if a majority of the employees wish to cancel the forced union dues clause and restore employees\u2019 freedom to decide whether to join or pay dues to the union. \u201cCequent and USWA officials have negotiated away the freedom of the company\u2019s employees,\u201d said Stefan Gleason<\/a>, Vice President of the National Right to Work Foundation. \u201cMeanwhile, the NLRB has stood idly by while USWA officials cemented themselves in place and helped themselves to forced dues from workers\u2019 paychecks.\u201d In March 2004, more than 230 workers signed the \u201cdecertification\u201d petition, which was given to Cequent before it recognized the USWA union as their \u201cexclusive bargaining representative.\u201d If a decertification election is allowed and is successful, all Ceuqent employees then would be free to negotiate their own terms and conditions of employment. In June 2004, the NLRB in Washington, DC, voted 3-2 to take up the Cequent case and consider whether union-opposition petitions signed by a majority of employees may be completely ignored during a so-called \u201ccard check\u201d organizing drive. Workers at the facility found themselves unionized by the USWA union despite the fact that a majority of employees had submitted a petition expressing their desire to remain union free in advance of the union\u2019s recognition by their employer as their \u201cexclusive bargaining representative.\u201d Cequent officials had implemented a \u201cneutrality agreement\u201d with the USWA union that severely limited employee freedoms. The NLRB\u2019s ultimate decision will impact the enforceability of controversial \u201cneutrality agreements,\u201d contracts between unions and employers under which the employer agrees to actively assist organizers in unionizing its workers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Goshen, Ind. (July 7, 2005) \u2013 Approximately 200 employees at Cequent Towing Product\u2019s Goshen facility have filed a \u201cdeauthorization\u201d petition with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) asking the agency to hold an election to rid their work place of mandatory union dues. 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