{"id":2578,"date":"2003-02-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-02-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T18:28:10","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:28:10","slug":"union-faces-trial-at-labor-agency-for-threatening-to-kill-dissident-workers-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/es\/news\/union-faces-trial-at-labor-agency-for-threatening-to-kill-dissident-workers-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Faces Trial At Labor Agency For Threatening to Kill Dissident Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Orlando, Fla. (February 14, 2003)<\/b> \u2014 The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) Local 835 officials face federal prosecution for illegally threatening to \u201ckill\u201d or otherwise harm workers who participated in efforts to toss out the union and breaking a previous settlement agreement with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). <\/p>\n<p>Local 835 officials operate an exclusive union hiring hall that provides workers for the trade show, convention, and exhibition service industry in the Orlando area.<\/p>\n<p>After investigating the unfair labor practice charges filed by James Zitis and Clay Wayman \u2013 who obtained free legal representation from attorneys with the National Right to Work Foundation \u2013 the NLRB investigators found that union officials had \u201cthreatened to kill employees\u201d and \u201cthreatened employees with the loss of work opportunities and the loss of their homes and possessions\u201d if they engaged in activity to decertify the union through an NLRB-supervised election.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to naming IATSE Local 835, the NLRB complaint cites two of its top officials, Susan Wolfgang and Peter Merrifield, for their involvement in the harassment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe outrageous threats issued by these union officials show they have no respect for the law or employees\u2019 well being,\u201d said <a href=\"mailto:shg@nrtw.org\">Stefan Gleason<\/a>, Vice President of the National Right to Work Foundation. <\/p>\n<p>On May 16, 2002, IATSE union officials agreed to accept an NLRB settlement agreement of some of the employees\u2019 charges,  which required them to post a notice alerting workers that they only had to pay fees equal to the cost of running the hiring hall.  Union officials have failed to live up to the NLRB settlement and continue forcing non-union members to pay fees as a condition of using the hiring hall\u2019s referral process without explaining how the fee was calculated.  The NLRB has set the hearing date for July 21, 2003 to examine the charges against IATSE Local 835. <\/p>\n<p>Even though Florida has a highly popular and effective Right to Work law that frees nonunion employees from paying membership dues to an unwanted union, IATSE union officials use their monopoly bargaining privileges to set up exclusive hiring halls.  In such halls, the union decides which employees to refer for work at conventions and trade shows, and the workers are forced to pay the union to be eligible for work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orlando, Fla. (February 14, 2003) \u2014 The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) Local 835 officials face federal prosecution for illegally threatening to \u201ckill\u201d or otherwise harm workers who participated in efforts to toss out the union and breaking a previous settlement agreement with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). 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