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Washington, DC (June 24, 2013)<\/b> \u2013 Today, the United States Supreme Court announced that it is granting a writ of certiorari<\/i> in Mulhall v. UNITE HERE<\/i>, a case that could determine if companies are allowed to hand over workers’ personal information to union organizers in exchange for union concessions, among other things.<\/p>\n
In 2004, UNITE HERE Local 355 and Mardi Gras Gaming entered into an agreement in which union officials promised to spend over one hundred thousand dollars on a gambling ballot initiative and guaranteed not to picket, boycott, or strike against Mardi Gras facilities.<\/p>\n
In return, Mardi Gras agreed to give union operatives employees’ personal contact information (including home addresses) and grant access to company facilities during a coercive ‘card check’ organizing campaign, refrain from informing workers about the downsides of unionization, and refrain from requesting a federally-supervised secret ballot election to determine whether employees unionized.<\/p>\n
Click here to read the full release.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\nSupreme Court to Hear National Right to Work Foundation Case Challenging Backroom Union Organizing Deal<\/a><\/h2>\n
Right to Work legal challenge could determine if companies are allowed to hand over sensitive employee information to aggressive union organizers<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n