Union Card Bill Bringing on Bullies?

[WillowTree]

Card Check Process Used by Union Organizers Ignites Fury at Indiana Plant




Union organizers are going to great lengths to establish a union in a workplace -- including harassing and intimidating company employees until they sign a card.

That the accusations from some workers at the Dana Corporation Auto Parts plant in Albion, Ind.

The Employee Free Choice Act -- known as the "card check" bill pending in Congress -- calls for an easier system to allow employees to form, join, or assist labor organizations. Under the bill, employees can request blank cards from an existing union and request signatures on the card from employees. The legislation allows the company to hold a secret ballot election to decide unionization if 30 percent of employees sign the cards.

Though the bill is still pending, some companies like the Dana Corporation have already begun using the card check process. Union organizers came to the plant two years ago to ask employees to sign a card and join the United Auto Workers -- an effort that was permitted because the company signed a neutrality agreement with the union.

Card Check Process Used by Union Organizers Ignites Fury at Indiana Plant - Presidential Politics | Political News - FOXNews.com

 

[xsited1]

Obama supports the little people! (As long as they are in a Union.)

But accusations about the UAW's aggressive campaign to get signatures has ignited fury among plant workers, some of whom claim they were hassled, intimidated and harassed by union organizers until they signed the card.

Some workers allege union organizers followed them to their cars -- and even showed up at their homes demanding a signature.

"We're here in a little town and we're a plant of 50 some people -- you know the last thing you need is to have the union coming to your door saying I want your name," Dana employee Jamie Oliver told FOX News.

Some plant employees claimed the card check process created divisiveness at work, causing some employees to be threatened by coworkers who had wanted the union.

The UAW declined to give comment to FOX News on the employees' complaints.

 

[DiveCon]

no no no, this cant be true, Unions would NEVER use intimidation to get in a shop

 

[garyd]

Since when. that's been the primary tactic for sixty odd years now.

I remember when they tried to unionize a company my dad worked at. He said the only thing they were missing from being stereotypical mafia goons was violin case leaning against the fence.

 

[Diuretic]

Ungrateful scab bastards

The UAW saves the company and then the workers won't join up.

Turnaround at Dana - UAW Solidarity - Jan/Feb 2008

In 2006 the UAW Independents, Parts and Suppliers/Competitive Shops (IPS/CS) Department, headed by UAW Vice President Bob King, and nine UAW Dana locals formed a coalition with United Steelworker (USW) local unions, also representing Dana workers, to confront challenges at the company. A strategic plan was developed to take advantage of this opportunity to boost UAW and USW bargaining strength and to expand the rights of the unorganized.

In March 2006 Dana Corp. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The company asked a federal judge to cancel the company’s labor contracts, and a trial was under way. Union members made it clear that such drastic action could result in a labor dispute.

The high-stakes bargaining led to a successful outcome.

Working together, UAW and USW members hammered out the UAW Dana National Framework Agreement, ratified by Dana workers July 24, 2007.

The four-year national agreement covers wages and health care for active workers, and pensions and health care for retirees. Dana also will contribute more than $750 million to a Voluntary Employee Beneficiary Association (VEBA) trust fund to pay health care benefits for current and future UAW and USW Dana retirees.

In an important and innovative feature of the settlement agreement, the two unions recruited and encouraged Centerbridge Partners LP of New York to invest $500 million and sponsor a reorganization plan to allow Dana to emerge from bankruptcy.

Okay, let 'er rip

 

[garyd]

So they tried black mail too did they? No wonder the management signed a neutrality agreement. It was either that or face not getting thier supplies show up in a timely fashion.

 

[Diuretic]

So they tried black mail too did they? No wonder the management signed a neutrality agreement. It was either that or face not getting thier supplies show up in a timely fashion.

Good move! I'll link this back to the UAW

 

[Gunny]

Ungrateful scab bastards

The UAW saves the company and then the workers won't join up.

Turnaround at Dana - UAW Solidarity - Jan/Feb 2008

In 2006 the UAW Independents, Parts and Suppliers/Competitive Shops (IPS/CS) Department, headed by UAW Vice President Bob King, and nine UAW Dana locals formed a coalition with United Steelworker (USW) local unions, also representing Dana workers, to confront challenges at the company. A strategic plan was developed to take advantage of this opportunity to boost UAW and USW bargaining strength and to expand the rights of the unorganized.

In March 2006 Dana Corp. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The company asked a federal judge to cancel the company’s labor contracts, and a trial was under way. Union members made it clear that such drastic action could result in a labor dispute.

The high-stakes bargaining led to a successful outcome.

Working together, UAW and USW members hammered out the UAW Dana National Framework Agreement, ratified by Dana workers July 24, 2007.

The four-year national agreement covers wages and health care for active workers, and pensions and health care for retirees. Dana also will contribute more than $750 million to a Voluntary Employee Beneficiary Association (VEBA) trust fund to pay health care benefits for current and future UAW and USW Dana retirees.

In an important and innovative feature of the settlement agreement, the two unions recruited and encouraged Centerbridge Partners LP of New York to invest $500 million and sponsor a reorganization plan to allow Dana to emerge from bankruptcy.

Okay, let 'er rip

I don't notice anything in the language of the deal that requires Dana employees to join the union.

It says 9 Dana employees brought the union in. Nine out of how many total employees? Looks like a typical salt tactic by the union. Plant a few seeds to undermine the company in people's minds and offer the union as their savior.

Been there, seen that. No thanks.

 

[rayboyusmc]

There is no need for Unions. Corporations will always look out for their people.

This has nothing to do with productivity increasing in the last 20+ years and real wages going down.

Damn union. Next they might hire people to beat you up like the union busters did originally.

 

[WillowTree]

There is no need for Unions. Corporations will always look out for their people.

This has nothing to do with productivity increasing in the last 20+ years and real wages going down.

Damn union. Next they might hire people to beat you up like the union busters did originally.

If unions are so awsome why do the need to intimidate people to join doyathink?

 

[RetiredGySgt]

There is no need for Unions. Corporations will always look out for their people.

This has nothing to do with productivity increasing in the last 20+ years and real wages going down.

Damn union. Next they might hire people to beat you up like the union busters did originally.

They already do that. Threats, intimidation, goons, assaults, just depends on how big the Mafia is in control of the particular Union. There is only one reason Unions push for non secret ballots, so they can see who to threaten to get in.

National Unions are EXACTLY what they were created to fight. Big Business. Executives being paid over 100 k a year and nevr having to worry about going on strike, they though will force locals to go on strike and the executives never lose a dime of pay.

The retirement funds are routinely stolen or embezzeled. The leadership is almost always linked to organized crime. Those Unions are not in it to make the workers lives better, just to make more money.

 

[editec]

Did you ever work in a factory, Willow?

No?

Did you ever own a factory, Willow?

No?

Then honestly...what do you really know about this issue?

 

[WillowTree]

Did you ever work in a factory, Willow?

No?

Did you ever own a factory, Willow?

No?

Then honestly...what do you really know about this issue?

Stupid questions... Hello..

 

[editec]

Did you ever work in a factory, Willow?

No?

Did you ever own a factory, Willow?

No?

Then honestly...what do you really know about this issue?

Stupid questions... Hello..

I'll take your evasion as your acknowlegement that you don't know jack shit about this issue.

 

[Gunny]

There is no need for Unions. Corporations will always look out for their people.

This has nothing to do with productivity increasing in the last 20+ years and real wages going down.

Damn union. Next they might hire people to beat you up like the union busters did originally.

In there current state, you are correct. There is no need of unions. They are nothing but corrupt bureaucracies that scarcely embody the original intent trade unions. When they were about the tradesman and his welfare, they were a good thing. The current unions are about supporting the unions first.

I am not against the ideal of trade unions, nor am I against people that wish to join unions as they currently exist. I AM against union strongarm tactics.

 

[WillowTree]

Did you ever work in a factory, Willow?

No?

Did you ever own a factory, Willow?

No?

Then honestly...what do you really know about this issue?

Stupid questions... Hello..

I'll take your evasion as your acknowlegement that you don't know jack shit about this issue.

take it anyway you want to take it asswipe..

 

[DiveCon]

Did you ever work in a factory, Willow?

No?

Did you ever own a factory, Willow?

No?

Then honestly...what do you really know about this issue?

Stupid questions... Hello..

I'll take your evasion as your acknowlegement that you don't know jack shit about this issue.

when you answer your own questions, aren't they more rhetorical and don't actually NEED an answer from her?
and since you know very little about what she has or does, you were not really equipped to answer then yourself

 

[RightofCenter]

Unions. A thing of the past, aka a dinosaur that is lying dying on the ground, but IBEW's and Autoworkers keep it on life support. Unions have far far outlived their usefulness, and are merely a vehicle for corruption.

They are nothing more than legitimized bootthugs, like attornies. With the increase of cash flow FOR THE EMPLOYEE that unions create, this then perpetuates the employee's love of unions. Other than that, they have ruined productivity, quality and integrity of American products in our country in the last 25 yrs!

I walked in and volunteered for the Greatest Non-Union workforce in the world: The US military. If unions are so brave, how come they havent attempted to unionize the Military??????? Hmmmm?

 

[Diuretic]

There is no need for Unions. Corporations will always look out for their people.

This has nothing to do with productivity increasing in the last 20+ years and real wages going down.

Damn union. Next they might hire people to beat you up like the union busters did originally.

If unions are so awsome why do the need to intimidate people to join doyathink?

Fair question. There's no place for intimidation. But there is a place, as I understand how it operates in the US, for advocacy. I've seen some materials from the AFL-CIO on recruiting (admittedly some years ago) but while there was a lot of material on advocacy there was nothing there about intimidation, as you would expect. If an organiser is using intimidation then they need to be removed from the campaign. But one person's "intimidation" might well be another's "advocacy".

 

[Diuretic]

There is no need for Unions. Corporations will always look out for their people.

This has nothing to do with productivity increasing in the last 20+ years and real wages going down.

Damn union. Next they might hire people to beat you up like the union busters did originally.

In there current state, you are correct. There is no need of unions. They are nothing but corrupt bureaucracies that scarcely embody the original intent trade unions. When they were about the tradesman and his welfare, they were a good thing. The current unions are about supporting the unions first.

I am not against the ideal of trade unions, nor am I against people that wish to join unions as they currently exist. I AM against union strongarm tactics.

If unions are that bad then people should join and push out the bad people.