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High Point, N.C. (June 1, 2004)<\/b> \u2013 Employees at the Thomas Built Bus facility in High Point have filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) for an election that could strip officials of the nation\u2019s largest auto workers union of their newly granted \u201cexclusive representation\u201d power over roughly 1,100 of the company\u2019s employees. <\/p>\n

The official filing comes on the heels of top United Auto Workers (UAW) brass expressing confidence in the local press that the UAW union enjoys \u201cmajority\u201d support among Thomas Built employees.<\/p>\n

With free legal aid from National Right to Work Foundation attorneys, Jeff Ward filed the decertification petition signed by 36 percent of his coworkers after Thomas Built began bargaining with the UAW union without allowing the employees to cast a secret ballot to determine their union status. <\/p>\n

Bowing to pressure brought by UAW union operatives, Freightliner, Thomas Built\u2019s parent company, 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 recognition cards that were counted as \u201cvotes\u201d for unionization. Employees complained of \u201ccaptive audience\u201d speeches during which Freightliner and UAW officials coerced employees to sign cards.<\/p>\n

If a decertification election is allowed and is successful, the UAW would lose its special privilege to act as the \u201cexclusive bargaining representative\u201d of the employees. All Thomas Built Bus employees then would be free to negotiate their own terms and conditions of employment and could be rewarded on their individual merit.<\/p>\n

\u201cThomas Built employees should be allowed, once and for all, to have a voice in whether they are unionized,\u201d said Stefan Gleason<\/a>, Vice President of the National Right to Work Foundation. \u201cIt\u2019s an outrage that Freightliner struck a backroom deal with UAW officials to deny these workers their rights.\u201d <\/p>\n

The filing of the decertification petition follows Ward\u2019s filing of an unfair labor practice charge at the NLRB against his employer and UAW officials for jointly coercing the plant\u2019s workers to accept an unwanted union pursuant to the so-called \u201cneutrality agreement.\u201d In addition, Ward recently appeared at a Capitol Hill press conference to denounce abuses suffered by workers at the High Point facility at the hands of UAW operatives in their recent organizing push. <\/p>\n

Under the National Labor Relations Act, if 30% or more of the employees in a bargaining unit sign a decertification petition, the NLRB should conduct a secret ballot election to determine if a majority of the employees wish to decertify the union and stop it from any further \u201cexclusive representation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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