{"id":644,"date":"2010-02-11T14:35:56","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T14:35:56","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-01-22T17:43:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T22:43:00","slug":"workers-prevail-in-battle-for-secret-ballot-vote-after-corrupt-card-check-unionization-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/es\/news\/workers-prevail-in-battle-for-secret-ballot-vote-after-corrupt-card-check-unionization-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Workers Prevail in Battle for Secret Ballot Vote After Corrupt Card Check Unionization Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/newsrelease.png\" style=\"padding-left: 60px\" alt=\"News Release\" align=\"center\" border=\"0\" width=\"457\" height=\"48\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/en\/press\/2010\/02\/workers-prevail-in-battle-for-secret-ballot-02112010\" title=\"Workers Prevail in Battle for Secret Ballot Vote After Corrupt Card Check Unionization Scheme\">Workers Prevail in Battle for Secret Ballot Vote After Corrupt Card Check Unionization Scheme<\/a><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center; font-style: italic\">Communications union bosses collude with AT&#038;T to lock local group into union ranks without majority support<\/h3>\n<p><p><b>Seattle, WA (February 11, 2010)<\/b> \u2013 A group of AT&#038;T Mobility employees have won a legal victory countering union officials\u2019 domination of their workplace using a coercive card check unionization campaign that occurred after union organizers colluded with AT&#038;T officials to sweep the workers into union ranks in exchange for contract concessions.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nPer a so-called \u201cneutrality agreement\u201d between the Communications Workers of America (CWA) union hierarchy and AT&#038;T, workers in a 140-employee bargaining unit (which consists of various locations across the state of Washington) were \u201ccard checked\u201d into the CWA union\u2019s regional monopoly bargaining unit which consists of thousands of employees.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn exchange for AT&#038;T foisting CWA monopoly bargaining on workers through a card check organizing drive, union officials agreed to subject employees to a contract which results in lost benefits for the workers, including promotion opportunities.  Moreover, the employees\u2019 inclusion in the larger regional unit would make it virtually impossible for them to later organize to remove the union officials\u2019 monopoly bargaining privileges.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHowever, using precedent won by Right to Work Foundation attorneys in the National Labor Relations Board\u2019s (NLRB) landmark 2007 decision in <i>Dana Corporation<\/i>, Joseph Simpson of Redmond and his colleagues filed a decertification petition demanding a secret ballot election to remove the unwanted union from their workplace.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"\/en\/press\/2010\/02\/workers-prevail-in-battle-for-secret-ballot-02112010\">Click here to read the full release<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/newsrelease.png\" style=\"padding-left: 60px\" alt=\"News Release\" align=\"center\" border=\"0\" width=\"457\" height=\"48\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/en\/press\/2010\/02\/workers-prevail-in-battle-for-secret-ballot-02112010\" title=\"Workers Prevail in Battle for Secret Ballot Vote After Corrupt Card Check Unionization Scheme\">Workers Prevail in Battle for Secret Ballot Vote After Corrupt Card Check Unionization Scheme<\/a><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center; font-style: italic\">Communications union bosses collude with AT&#038;T to lock local group into union ranks without majority support<\/h3>\n<p><p><b>Seattle, WA (February 11, 2010)<\/b> \u2013 A group of AT&#038;T Mobility employees have won a legal victory countering union officials\u2019 domination of their workplace using a coercive card check unionization campaign that occurred after union organizers colluded with AT&#038;T officials to sweep the workers into union ranks in exchange for contract concessions.<\/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-644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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