New York, NY (January 24, 2012)<\/b> \u2013 A group of New York City Marriott (NYSE: MAR) employees \u2013 acting on behalf of their coworkers \u2013 have filed federal charges against the company and a local union for workplace intimidation and harassment.<\/p>\n
The three SoHo Marriott employees filed the charges at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) with free legal assistance from National Right to Work Foundation attorneys.<\/p>\n
New York Hotel & Motel Trades Council Local 6 union organizers entered into a backroom deal with company officials that allows union organizers unfettered access to the employees in order to install a union in the workplace.<\/p>\n
Abusing this privilege, union organizers are attempting to browbeat the workers into supporting the union through a prolonged campaign of intimidation and harassment. Meanwhile, company officials deny workers’ attempts to meet on company grounds.<\/p>\n
Union officials have used video cameras in employee changing rooms, accessed employee lockers and handled employees’ personal possessions, and have even resorted to verbal abuse. Union officials even took photographs of a female employee without her consent while she was changing her uniform in an employee changing room.<\/p>\n
Moreover, company and union officials are retaliating against workers who dare to exercise their right to refrain from union affiliation. For example, at least three workers were illegally interrogated and disciplined by company officials at the behest of union bosses.<\/p>\n
In response, the workers unanimously signed a petition showing that they do not support the union hierarchy’s presence in the workplace.<\/p>\n
\u00abUnion and company officials have colluded to force the union bosses’ so-called ‘representation’ on these workers,\u00bb said Mark Mix, President of National Right to Work. \u00abMarriott workers are being subjected to a vicious campaign of intimidation \u2013 including sexual harassment \u2013 at the hands of forced-dues hungry union bosses and with the approval of weak-kneed company officials.\u00bb<\/p>\n
\u00abNew York desperately needs a Right to Work law to protect workers from forced unionism abuses like this in the future,\u00bb added Mix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
New York, NY (January 24, 2012)<\/b> \u2013 A group of New York City Marriott (NYSE: MAR) employees \u2013 acting on behalf of their coworkers \u2013 have filed federal charges against the company and a local union for workplace intimidation and harassment.<\/p>\n
The three SoHo Marriott employees filed the charges at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) with free legal assistance from National Right to Work Foundation attorneys.<\/p>\n
New York Hotel & Motel Trades Council Local 6 union organizers entered into a backroom deal with company officials that allows union organizers unfettered access to the employees in order to install a union in the workplace.<\/p>\n
Abusing this privilege, union organizers are attempting to browbeat the workers into supporting the union through a prolonged campaign of intimidation and harassment. Meanwhile, company officials deny workers’ attempts to meet on company grounds.<\/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-2992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n