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Cleveland, Ohio (August 5, 2003)<\/b> \u2013 In a potentially precedent-setting legal challenge, employees of Collins & Aikman today filed federal charges against a \u201csecondary boycott\u201d arrangement that forces companies acquired by Heartland Industrial Partners LLP to help the Steelworkers unionize their unsuspecting employees and then impose the same requirement on other companies with which they do certain business. <\/p>\n

The charges attack an increasingly common \u201ctop-down organizing\u201d tactic that is used to short-circuit traditional grassroots-driven union organizing drives that more frequently fail, due to a lack of interest in unionization among rank-and-file employees.<\/p>\n

With the help of attorneys from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, Linda Kandel, Galen Raber, Juanita Miller, and Renate Croll filed charges with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) against the United Steelworkers of America, Heartland Industrial Partners LLP, and Collins & Aikman Corporation.<\/p>\n

As part of their pact with the Steelworkers union, Heartland agreed to force any company in which it has substantial investments to accept a so-called \u201cneutrality agreement.\u201d Under the terms of the \u201cneutrality agreement,\u201d the company must deny employees an opportunity to vote in a traditional secret ballot election, give union organizers employees\u2019 private information including home addresses, and, ultimately, force workers to pay union dues as a condition of employment. <\/p>\n

The newly acquired company must then impose the \u201cneutrality agreement\u201d on corporations it acquires or with which it does substantial business. <\/p>\n

In return for this arrangement, union officials pour 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

\u201cHeartland and the Steelworkers union are using their sweetheart deal to spread compulsory unionism like a virus and infect as many workers as possible,\u201d said Stefan Gleason<\/a>, Vice President of the National Right to Work Foundation. <\/p>\n

This quid pro quo<\/i> arrangement may also violate civil and criminal provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act. Today\u2019s NLRB charges follow up a lawsuit filed last week by Foundation attorneys, Patterson et al. v. Heartland Industrial Partners LLP et al.<\/i>, challenging the \u201cneutrality agreement\u201d between Heartland and the Steelworkers union. The suit was filed on behalf of Wanda Patterson, an employee of Collins & Aikman, in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. <\/p>\n

In 2001, Heartland bought out the Collins & Aikman Corporation and forced the company to accept a \u201cneutrality agreement\u201d with the Steelworkers union. Employees at the Holmesville, Ohio, Collins & Aikman facility had previously voted on several occasions to reject union representation before unionization was imposed in recent months under the so-called \u201cneutrality agreement.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cleveland, Ohio (August 5, 2003) \u2013 In a potentially precedent-setting legal challenge, employees of Collins & Aikman today filed federal charges against a \u201csecondary boycott\u201d arrangement that forces companies acquired by Heartland Industrial Partners LLP to help the Steelworkers unionize their unsuspecting employees and then impose the same requirement on other companies with which they […]<\/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-2527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nAutoworkers Challenge National Agreement Mandating Acquired Companies to Help Unionize their Own Employees - National Right to Work Foundation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/news\/autoworkers-challenge-national-agreement-mandating-acquired-companies-to-help-unionize-their-own-employees-0\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Autoworkers Challenge National Agreement Mandating Acquired Companies to Help Unionize their Own Employees - 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