{"id":2422,"date":"2005-01-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T18:26:03","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:26:03","slug":"steelworkers-union-forced-to-leave-asheboro-goodyear-facility-after-corralling-workers-into-unwanted-unionization-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/es\/news\/steelworkers-union-forced-to-leave-asheboro-goodyear-facility-after-corralling-workers-into-unwanted-unionization-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelworkers Union Forced to Leave Asheboro Goodyear Facility After Corralling Workers into Unwanted Unionization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Asheboro, North Carolina (January 5, 2005)<\/b> \u2013 United Steel Workers of America (USWA) union officials have dropped their bid to unionize the local Goodyear Tires (Goodyear) facility in order to settle a federal prosecution for unfair labor practices committed during a coercive organizing drive last year.  <\/p>\n<p>Goodyear\u2019s controversial recognition of the union as the \u201cexclusive bargaining agent\u201d of the facility\u2019s workers has been in dispute since last year.  Numerous employees contend that union and company officials failed to honor employee revocations of previously signed union \u201cauthorization\u201d cards and jointly imposed union representation on a dissenting majority of workers. <\/p>\n<p>Receiving free legal aid from National Right to Work Foundation attorneys, three workers at the Goodyear facility filed unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in July 2004 after USWA officials claimed that a majority of workers had signed union \u201cauthorization\u201d cards and thus \u201cvoted\u201d in favor of unionization.  Goodyear subsequently installed the USWA union as the monopoly representative of the approximately 340 workers at the plant based on this dubious claim.<\/p>\n<p>Many workers gave Goodyear, and the arbitrator who counted the cards, letters revoking their previously signed cards.  USWA officials, Goodyear, and the arbitrator unlawfully ignored the revocations.  The workers\u2019 unfair labor practice charges simply asked the NLRB to recount the cards and recognize the revocations.<\/p>\n<p>The NLRB Regional Director in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, ultimately sided with the three employees, and in December filed a formal complaint \u2013 ordered by the NLRB\u2019s General Counsel \u2013 against Goodyear and the union.  At the center of the NLRB\u2019s settlement agreement is a mandate that union officials walk away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis victory is a step towards holding union officials across the country to account for trampling workers\u2019 rights under abusive \u2018card check\u2019 schemes,\u201d said Foundation Vice President <a href=\"mailto:shg@nrtw.org\">Stefan Gleason<\/a>.  \u201cWhile encouraging, it\u2019s an outrage that Goodyear struck a backroom deal with USWA officials in the first place to deny these workers the freedom to decide their own representation through the less abusive secret ballot election process.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Bowing to pressure from USWA union operatives, Goodyear had signed a so-called \u201cneutrality agreement\u201d that prohibits a traditional and less-abusive secret ballot election process in favor of a coercive \u201ccard check\u201d campaign.  Under the agreement, union organizers were given full access to employees\u2019 personal information and company facilities to browbeat workers into signing union \u201cauthorization\u201d cards.<\/p>\n<p>Under the terms of the settlement, USWA union officials may not use the \u201ccard check\u201d unionization scheme in any future organization attempts at the Asheboro Goodyear facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asheboro, North Carolina (January 5, 2005) \u2013 United Steel Workers of America (USWA) union officials have dropped their bid to unionize the local Goodyear Tires (Goodyear) facility in order to settle a federal prosecution for unfair labor practices committed during a coercive organizing drive last year. 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