\nSeattle, Washington (March 5, 2009)<\/b> \u2013 Employees from nine collective bargaining units of Oak Harbor Freight Lines, Inc. have filed decertification petitions seeking elections to oust the Teamster union as the workers\u2019 monopoly bargaining agent.\n<\/p>\n
\nWith help from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, the employees \u2013 drivers and dockworkers \u2013 filed the decertification petitions with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) seeking secret ballot elections to determine whether the workforce wants to retain the Teamster union as their monopoly bargaining agent.\n<\/p>\n
\nOn September 22, 2008, Teamster union brass called a strike against Oak Harbor Freight. Teamster union operatives picketed Oak Harbor Freight\u2019s clients with the goal of discouraging them from doing business with the company.\u00a0 Teamster union bosses sought publicly to damage Oak Harbor Freight\u2019s reputation and openly celebrated when clients refused to do further business with the company.\n<\/p>\n
\nTeamster union bosses organized a subsequent campaign of intimidation and harassment of Oak Harbor Freight employees who continued to work during the strike. Teamster union partisans participated in ambulatory strikes, in which they stalked and picketed Oak Harbor Freight drivers on their daily routes.\n<\/p>\n
\n\u201cIt\u2019s particularly despicable to intimidate workers if they refuse to abandon their jobs in the midst of an economic crisis,\u201d said Stefan Gleason, vice president of the National Right to Work Foundation. \u201cAll workers should be free to support their families, free from harassment by union bosses.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\nThe Oak Harbor Freight employees work at terminal sites in Auburn, Washington; Burlington (Mt. Vernon), Washington; Olympia, Washington; Pasco, Washington; Spokane, Washington; Wenatchee, Washington; Medford, Oregon; Salem, Oregon; and Boise, Idaho.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\nSeattle, Washington (March 5, 2009)<\/b> \u2013 Employees from nine collective bargaining units of Oak Harbor Freight Lines, Inc. have filed decertification petitions seeking elections to oust the Teamster union as the workers\u2019 monopoly bargaining agent.\n<\/p>\n
\nWith help from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, the employees \u2013 drivers and dockworkers \u2013 filed the decertification petitions with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) seeking secret ballot elections to determine whether the workforce wants to retain the Teamster union as their monopoly bargaining agent.<\/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-2795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n