{"id":2255,"date":"2007-02-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T18:24:51","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:24:51","slug":"union-abused-employees-give-testimony-to-congress-against-coercive-card-check-organizing-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/es\/news\/union-abused-employees-give-testimony-to-congress-against-coercive-card-check-organizing-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Union-Abused Employees Give Testimony to Congress Against Coercive \u201cCard Check\u201d Organizing Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Washington, DC (February 8, 2007)<\/strong> \u2013 Two employees represented by National Right to Work Foundation attorneys in defending against abusive \u201ccard check\u201d union organizing tactics today gave written testimony to the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee about their disturbing experiences.<\/p>\n<p>The coercive card check unionization scheme is highly controversial for severely curtailing employees\u2019 freedom to choose whether or not to unionize and for stripping workers of the limited protections of a government-supervised secret ballot election.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Ivey, a Foundation-assisted materials handler at Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation in Gaffney, South Carolina, detailed the unrelenting harassment he and his coworkers have faced over the past four years at the hands of United Auto Workers (UAW) union organizers seeking to force unwanted unionization upon them.  This has occurred even though more than 70 percent of the employees submitted a petition stating they want nothing to do with the UAW.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFaced with a never-ending onslaught, we employees feel that the UAW is holding our heads under water until we drown,\u201d he stated.  \u201cSome employees have had five or more harassing visits from these union organizers.  The only way, it seems, to stop the badgering and pressure is to sign the card\u2026.Moreover, in many instances, employees who signed cards under pressure or false pretenses later attempted to retrieve or void this card.  The union would not allow this to happen, telling them that they could not do so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Karen Mayhew, a Portland, Oregon, employee of Kaiser Foundation Health Plan (a component of the national Kaiser Permanente health network) also detailed misrepresentations made to employees during a card check campaign last year involving the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).  Aside from collecting the cards under false pretenses \u2013 that they would actually be used to get a secret ballot election \u2013 union organizers browbeat people to sign.  Ultimately, the federal labor board forced the union to rescind its unlawful \u201cvoluntary recognition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThroughout this whole ordeal, my colleagues and I were subjected to badgering and immense peer pressure.  Some of us even received calls at home,\u201d Mayhew stated.  \u201cI believe this abuse was directed towards me at the request of the union in an effort to intimidate me and have me back down\u2026 union abuses of a wide variety are the rule in \u2018card check\u2019 campaigns, not the exception.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Karen Mayhew\u2019s testimony can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/pdfs\/Mayhew.pdf\">www.nrtw.org\/pdfs\/Mayhew.pdf<\/a>.  Mike Ivey\u2019s testimony can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/pdfs\/Ivey.pdf\">www.nrtw.org\/pdfs\/Ivey.pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC (February 8, 2007) \u2013 Two employees represented by National Right to Work Foundation attorneys in defending against abusive \u201ccard check\u201d union organizing tactics today gave written testimony to the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee about their disturbing experiences. 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