{"id":2493,"date":"2004-01-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T18:26:56","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:26:56","slug":"court-gives-go-ahead-to-workers-suit-against-heartland-and-steelworkers-pact-imposing-union-at-automotive-suppliers-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/es\/news\/court-gives-go-ahead-to-workers-suit-against-heartland-and-steelworkers-pact-imposing-union-at-automotive-suppliers-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Gives Go Ahead to Workers\u2019 Suit Against Heartland and Steelworkers\u2019 Pact Imposing Union at Automotive Suppliers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Akron, Ohio (January 13, 2004)<\/b> \u2013 An unprecedented federal court challenge filed by employees objecting to a new unionization method gained momentum today when a United States District Court cleared the path for full discovery into details of a backroom deal intended to unionize the employees without so much as a secret ballot vote.<\/p>\n<p>Obtaining free legal assistance from National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation attorneys, Wanda Patterson filed the suit in July 2003 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio against Heartland Industrial Partners, LLP, Collins &#038; Aikman Corp., and the United Steel Workers of America (USWA) union. Patterson is seeking to overturn a sweetheart arrangement that, among other things, requires all companies acquired by Heartland to help impose unionization on their employees and then force those employees to pay union dues as a condition of employment.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. District Court denied the defendants\u2019 motion to dismiss Heartland, Collins &#038; Aikman, and the union.  The court ordered the parties to begin pre-trial discovery, in which Wanda Patterson and her coworkers can subpoena documents and investigate the deal.<\/p>\n<p>Patterson\u2019s suit calls into question the legality of a rapidly emerging organizing trend \u2013 especially prevalent in the automobile, textile, and hotel industries \u2013 in which struggling union organizers abandon traditional grassroots-driven unionization drives and instead elicit assistance from companies to impose compulsory unionism on their own employees through highly coercive \u201ctop-down\u201d organizing methods.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot only does the backroom deal between Heartland and the Steelworkers union sacrifice workers\u2019 freedom to decide their own representation, it sells them out in the first contract,\u201d said <a href=\"mailto:shg@nrtw.org\">Stefan Gleason<\/a>, Vice President of the National Right to Work Foundation.  \u201cThe court\u2019s decision to proceed is an important step down the road toward outlawing these coercive, often secret, agreements nationwide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patterson is an employee of the Collins &#038; Aikman Corp., an Ohio-based automotive parts manufacturer recently acquired by Heartland.<\/p>\n<p>Under the pact at issue, Heartland forces acquired companies to operate under a so-called \u201cneutrality agreement\u201d that requires company managers to assist USWA union officials in organizing their employees.  In return, union officials pour unsuspecting workers\u2019 trust funds into Heartland, promise to stifle employee rights under federal law, and limit employees\u2019 ability to influence their own wages, benefits, and working conditions.<\/p>\n<p>In 2001, Heartland bought out the Collins &#038; Aikman Corp. and forced the company to accept a \u201cneutrality agreement\u201d with the USWA union.  <\/p>\n<p>In denying the motion to dismiss, the court wrote that Heartland \u201c\u2026has apparently selected and contracted with a union of Heartland\u2019s choice.\u201d  It is argued that such activity violates provisions of federal law intended to prohibit conflicts of interest, sweetheart deals, and other employer-union coercion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Akron, Ohio (January 13, 2004) \u2013 An unprecedented federal court challenge filed by employees objecting to a new unionization method gained momentum today when a United States District Court cleared the path for full discovery into details of a backroom deal intended to unionize the employees without so much as a secret ballot vote. 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