{"id":2408,"date":"2005-03-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T18:26:02","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:26:02","slug":"thomas-built-workers-win-new-settlement-forcing-uaw-union-and-freightliner-to-cancel-unlawful-sweetheart-deal-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/es\/news\/thomas-built-workers-win-new-settlement-forcing-uaw-union-and-freightliner-to-cancel-unlawful-sweetheart-deal-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Built Workers Win New Settlement Forcing UAW Union and Freightliner to Cancel Unlawful Sweetheart Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>High Point, North Carolina (March 10, 2005)<\/strong> \u2013 Facing prosecution by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), United Auto Workers (UAW) union and Freightliner officials today agreed to cancel outright a company-wide sweetheart deal in which union officials had unlawfully bargained to limit workers\u2019 wage demands and made other major concessions in exchange for Freightliner\u2019s active assistance in coercing workers to unionize.<\/p>\n<p>Based on evidence provided by National Right to Work Foundation attorneys for Thomas Built Bus employee Jeff Ward, the NLRB\u2019s General Counsel found that Freightliner officials at Thomas Built provided unlawful assistance to the union and held unlawful \u201ccaptive audience\u201d speeches jointly with union officials to coerce employees to sign union authorization cards that were treated as \u201cvotes\u201d in favor of unionization.<\/p>\n<p>Even more significantly, the General Counsel issued an unfair labor practice complaint challenging a secret agreement between Freightliner and the UAW union titled \u201cAgreement on Preconditions to a Card Check Procedure\u201d as constituting unlawful \u201cpremature bargaining\u201d over substantive terms and conditions of employment before the union had achieved majority support among the employees.  <\/p>\n<p>The unlawful agreement spelled out what provisions would be contained in future collective bargaining agreements and would ensure a compliant company union that would not aggressively advocate for the employees.<\/p>\n<p>The new settlement reached today came after Ward objected to an earlier settlement proposal in which UAW officials had agreed not to act as the employees\u2019 bargaining representative, but were allowed to use the coercive arrangement at other Freightliner facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Like the previous proposed settlement, the new settlement cancels the union\u2019s recognition at Thomas Built and stipulates that it cannot act as the employees\u2019 representative unless it wins uncoerced majority support through a secret ballot election conducted by the NLRB. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cJeff Ward\u2019s principled stance in the face of a shameless UAW hierarchy has won relief for countless thousands of Freightliner employees,\u201d said Foundation Vice President <a href=\"mailto:shg@nrtw.org\">Stefan Gleason<\/a>.  \u201cThe UAW hierarchy initially tried to cut its losses at Thomas Built in the hopes of keeping their illegal agreement alive at other Freightliner facilities.  They have now been forced to cease and desist company wide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sweetheart deal shows how eager union officials are to sell out the employees\u2019 interests simply to get more union dues paying members.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bowing to pressure brought by UAW union operatives, Freightliner-Daimler Chrysler signed a so-called \u201cneutrality agreement\u201d that prohibited the traditional and less-abusive secret ballot election process.  The company instead agreed to recognize the union on the basis of a majority of employees signing union authorization cards.  Under the agreement, union organizers were given access to company facilities to browbeat workers into signing the cards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High Point, North Carolina (March 10, 2005) \u2013 Facing prosecution by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), United Auto Workers (UAW) union and Freightliner officials today agreed to cancel outright a company-wide sweetheart deal in which union officials had unlawfully bargained to limit workers\u2019 wage demands and made other major concessions in exchange for Freightliner\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\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-2408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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