Orange, California (June 27, 2012)<\/b> \u2013 The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Regional Director in Los Angeles has authorized the issuance of a complaint against a major healthcare union and hospital officials for forcing workers to accept an unwanted union in the workplace.<\/p>\n
With free legal assistance from the National Right to Work Foundation, Marlene Felter of Costa Mesa filed charges with the NLRB after Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Healthcare Workers West officials and Chapman Medical Center colluded to illegally rig a union organizing \u00abvote\u00bb to pave the way for the union to claim to \u00abrepresent\u00bb the workers.<\/p>\n
SEIU officials and Chapman Medical Center management entered into a backroom deal, known as a so-called \u00abneutrality agreement,\u00bb in which company officials granted union operatives access to company facilities to conduct a coercive \u00abcard check\u00bb organizing campaign, and waived the right to have a federally-supervised secret ballot election to determine whether employees wished to be unionized. Union organizers frequently use \u00abcard check\u00bb organizing tactics to bribe, browbeat, or cajole workers into forced-union-dues payments against their will.<\/p>\n
In response to the union’s coercive tactics, a majority of hospital workers signed cards, letters, and petitions stating that they did not want the SEIU bosses’ so-called \u00abrepresentation.\u00bb Instead of respecting the employees’ wishes, Chapman officials accepted SEIU officials as the workers’ monopoly bargaining agents after a rigged \u00abcard count\u00bb was held. Chapman and SEIU officials were in the process of negotiating a contract which almost certainly would include a provision to force the workers to pay union dues or fees as a condition of employment, because California does not have a Right to Work law that makes union membership and dues payment strictly voluntary.<\/p>\n
The NLRB Regional Office subpoenaed records from SEIU and found merit to Felter’s charges. The agency will prosecute the union and hospital if a settlement is not reached. Such settlement will, of necessity, include rescission of the union’s representational status at Chapman.<\/p>\n
\u00abChapman and SEIU officials have colluded to shove SEIU union bosses’ ‘representation’ \u2013 and with it forced dues payments \u2013 down workers’ throats,\u00bb said Mark Mix, President of National Right to Work. \u00abSchemes like this show that the ultimate goal of union officials is more forced dues collected from workers, even when rank-and-file employees want nothing to do with the union. This further makes the case that California desperately needs a Right to Work law on the books making union affiliation completely voluntary.\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Orange, California (June 27, 2012)<\/b> \u2013 The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Regional Director in Los Angeles has authorized the issuance of a complaint against a major healthcare union and hospital officials for forcing workers to accept an unwanted union in the workplace.<\/p>\n
With free legal assistance from the National Right to Work Foundation, Marlene Felter of Costa Mesa filed charges with the NLRB after Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Healthcare Workers West officials and Chapman Medical Center colluded to illegally rig a union organizing \u00abvote\u00bb to pave the way for the union to claim to \u00abrepresent\u00bb the workers.<\/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-3044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n