{"id":1619,"date":"2005-12-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-21T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"union-officials-face-federal-charges-for-firing-local-workers-who-continued-to-work-during-strike","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/es\/union-officials-face-federal-charges-for-firing-local-workers-who-continued-to-work-during-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Officials Face Federal Charges for Firing Local Workers Who Continued to Work During Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pottstown, PA (December 21, 2005)<\/strong> \u2013 With free legal assistance from National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation attorneys, two local workers filed federal charges against their employer, the International Chemical Workers Union Council (ICWUC), and its Local 619 chapter, for having them fired in retaliation for returning to work during a union-ordered strike. David Cameron and Walter Reigner, chemical workers at the Cabot Supermetals factory in Boyertown, were fired in November as part of a union-negotiated strike settlement between Cabot and ICWUC union officials. In the agreement, union officials explicitly demanded that Cameron and Reigner, in addition to two other similarly-situated employees, be discharged for exercising their legal right to resign their formal union memberships and continue working during the strike. As a result of union officials\u2019 retaliatory demands against the workers who resigned from the union and disagreed with union officials\u2019 dictates, Cabot fired the four employees and handed their jobs over to less skilled and less senior workers. Cameron and Reigner\u2019s Foundation-assisted charges against the ICWUC unions and Cabot Supermetals seek reinstatement and back pay. \u201cIn a shameless unlawful act of retribution, four loyal employees are out on the street,\u201d said Foundation Vice President <a href=\"mailto:shg@nrtw.org\">Stefan Gleason<\/a>. \u201cUnion officials are attempting to drive four families into financial straits in order to send a message to all other employees that they had better toe the union line.\u201d Cameron, Reigner, and their two colleagues exercised their right under the U.S. Supreme Court decision in <a href=\"\/foundation-won.htm#PatternMakers\"><i>Patternmakers v. NLRB<\/i><\/a> to resign from formal union membership and return to work during a strike. The firings violated the National Labor Relations Act and the duty of fair representation which are supposed to protect employees who exercise their right to refrain from collective union activity without retaliation or coercion.  The National Labor Relations Board will now review the unfair labor practice charges brought against Cabot and the ICWUC union, an affiliate of the United Food and Commercial Workers union, and decide whether to issue a formal complaint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pottstown, PA (December 21, 2005) \u2013 With free legal assistance from National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation attorneys, two local workers filed federal charges against their employer, the International Chemical Workers Union Council (ICWUC), and its Local 619 chapter, for having them fired in retaliation for returning to work during a union-ordered strike. 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