{"id":2586,"date":"2003-01-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T18:28:11","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:28:11","slug":"johnson-controls-and-uaw-hit-with-federal-charges-for-collusion-in-coercing-workers-to-join-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/es\/news\/johnson-controls-and-uaw-hit-with-federal-charges-for-collusion-in-coercing-workers-to-join-union\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson Controls and UAW Hit With Federal Charges for Collusion in Coercing Workers to Join Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Milwaukee, Wis. (January 23, 2003)<\/b> \u2013 In an unprecedented employee challenge to an emerging unionization tactic, attorneys with the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation today filed federal charges against Johnson Controls, Inc. (JCI) and the United Auto Workers union for jointly coercing employees to sign union authorization cards as part of a so-called \u201cneutrality\u201d agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Walach, a non-union member, sought free legal aid from Foundation attorneys to file the unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which will investigate the charges and decide whether to prosecute the defendants for unfair labor practices.<\/p>\n<p>Last summer, bowing to pressure brought by UAW union operatives, JCI signed a so-called \u201cneutrality agreement.\u201d  Under the agreement union organizers are given full access to non-union employees\u2019 personal information and company facilities.  Also, non-union employees are forced to attend \u201ccaptive audience\u201d speeches in which they are told that, if they do not support the union\u2019s organizing effort, they could risk losing potential job opportunities. (A copy of the text of JCI\u2019s \u201ccaptive audience\u201d speech is available bly <a href=\"\/d\/jci_captive.htm\">clicking here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis agreement is nothing more than a license for union bosses and weak-kneed employers to threaten and intimidate workers into accepting compulsory unionism,\u201d said <a href=\"mailto:shg@nrtw.org\">Stefan Gleason<\/a>, Vice President of the National Right to Work Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the agreement, workers are denied the ability to reject unionization through a secret ballot election, and union operatives are allowed to sign up workers under a \u201ccard check\u201d authorization scheme.  Once UAW officials sign up a majority of the workers, then JCI declares the union as the exclusive representative of all the workers, even those who did not sign a card.   Under the \u201ccard check\u201d unionization process, workers are often misled, harassed, or threatened into signing union authorization cards.    <\/p>\n<p>In recent years, as union organizers have had less success in persuading employees to vote for unionization during secret ballot elections, unions have focused on organizing employers.   Bolstered by a series of Clinton NLRB rulings, union operatives increasingly use \u201cneutrality agreements\u201d and other \u201ctop-down\u201d organizing techniques to force employers to recognize unions without a vote by the workers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBig Labor is afraid to let workers choose for themselves in a fair secret ballot election; they know that without the fear of union coercion, the workers will reject unionization,\u201d stated Gleason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milwaukee, Wis. 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