{"id":2439,"date":"2004-10-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T18:26:04","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:26:04","slug":"federal-labor-board-issues-formal-complaint-against-freightliner-for-coercion-of-nonunion-employees-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/es\/news\/federal-labor-board-issues-formal-complaint-against-freightliner-for-coercion-of-nonunion-employees-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Labor Board Issues Formal Complaint Against Freightliner for Coercion of Nonunion Employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Washington, DC (October 6, 2004)<\/b> &#8211; The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Regional Director has filed a formal complaint \u2013 ordered by the NLRB\u2019s General Counsel \u2013 against a Daimler-Chrysler subsidiary for withholding pay raises as part of a strategy to coerce employees into ceding to unwanted unionization.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation attorneys helped Freightliner employees David Roach and Mike Ivey file a second unfair labor practice charge alleging the United Auto Workers (UAW) union and the company engaged in unlawful premature bargaining over numerous substantive terms and conditions of employment \u2013 despite the fact that an overwhelming majority of employees signed a petition opposing the UAW union\u2019s organizing efforts.<\/p>\n<p>The NLRB complaint targets the withholding of scheduled pay increases as a way of coercing employees to select UAW union officials as their workplace representative.  Documents obtained by Foundation attorneys indicated that company officials posted notices announcing that previous increases were delayed because of the union organizing campaign.  <\/p>\n<p>Approximately 70 percent of the plant\u2019s employees signed a petition stating that they reject union affiliation and prefer to negotiate directly with company officials over wages and benefits.  However, the UAW union and Freightliner continued to enforce a \u201cneutrality agreement\u201d that included a series of prearranged terms and conditions of employment in exchange for active employer assistance during the union organizing drive.<\/p>\n<p>Under most \u201cneutrality agreements,\u201d union organizers are given full access to non-union employees\u2019 personal information and company facilities.  Also, workers are usually denied the ability to decide their representation through a secret ballot election, and union operatives are allowed to sign up workers under a coercive \u201ccard check\u201d authorization scheme. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFreightliner and UAW officials cut a backroom deal to corral workers into union affiliation against their wishes by holding their wage increase hostage,\u201d said Foundation Vice President <a href=\"mailto:shg@nrtw.org\">Stefan Gleason<\/a>.  \u201cWhile an overwhelming majority of workers simply don\u2019t want the union around, Freightliner and the UAW union are refusing to get the message.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The issuance of this complaint follows precedent-setting orders issued last month by the NLRB General Counsel that unfair labor practice complaints be issued in a series of employee cases challenging organized labor\u2019s predominant \u201ccard check\u201d organizing method.  Foundation attorneys convinced NLRB General Counsel Arthur Rosenfeld also to issue complaints based on unfair labor practice charges filed by workers who found themselves targeted for organization by the unwanted UAW union at Dana Corporation\u2019s plants in Bristol, Virginia, and St. Johns, Michigan. <\/p>\n<p>The NLRB has scheduled a November 15 hearing before an Administrative Law Judge to prosecute the Freightliner complaint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC (October 6, 2004) &#8211; The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Regional Director has filed a formal complaint \u2013 ordered by the NLRB\u2019s General Counsel \u2013 against a Daimler-Chrysler subsidiary for withholding pay raises as part of a strategy to coerce employees into ceding to unwanted unionization. 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