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\n\"JimmyWhat do union bosses do when independent-minded employees refuse to succumb to union organizing pressure?\n<\/p>\n

\nWell, it turns out Jimmy Hoffa\u2019s solution is to write a letter<\/a> to the president of the companies he is trying to organize in order to smear those companies.\n<\/p>\n

\nTeamsters boss Hoffa did just that in writing to CEO<\/a> Moir Lockhead once FirstGroup employees began showing admirable resistance to the union’s thuggish organizing tactics.<\/p>\n

Workers at a Hodgkins, Illinois busing facility \u2013 owned by the UK-based FirstGroup \u2013 are saying \u201cno\u201d to the Teamsters\u2019 unionization hopes, but union bosses don’t like hearing \u00abno\u00bb from independent-minded employees.\n<\/p>\n

\nHoffa’s letter underscores the problems with so-called \u201cneutrality agreements,\u201d<\/a> since FirstGroup entered into such an agreement with the Teamsters union in order to get the union off its back. Neutrality agreements<\/a> give unions sweeping access to employees\u2019 personal information and ban secret-ballot elections, since the employer agrees to support a union\u2019s attempt to organize its workforce.\n<\/p>\n

\nHoffa\u2019s letter shows that anything short of unyielding assistance to lock employees up in forced unionism by employers is unacceptable to union officials.\n<\/p>\n

\nIn a similar Right to Work Foundation-aided case in Batavia, Illinois<\/a>, another union with a neutrality pledge refused to go away from a FirstGroup facility \u2013 just like what is happening here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\n\"JimmyWhat do union bosses do when independent-minded employees refuse to succumb to union organizing pressure?\n<\/p>\n

\nWell, it turns out Jimmy Hoffa\u2019s solution is to write a letter<\/a> to the president of the companies he is trying to organize in order to smear those companies.\n<\/p>\n

\nTeamsters boss Hoffa did just that in writing to CEO<\/a> Moir Lockhead once FirstGroup employees began showing admirable resistance to the union’s thuggish organizing tactics.<\/p>\n

Workers at a Hodgkins, Illinois busing facility \u2013 owned by the UK-based FirstGroup \u2013 are saying \u201cno\u201d to the Teamsters\u2019 unionization hopes, but union bosses don’t like hearing \u00abno\u00bb from independent-minded employees.\n<\/p>\n

\nHoffa’s letter underscores the problems with so-called \u201cneutrality agreements,\u201d<\/a> since FirstGroup entered into such an agreement with the Teamsters union in order to get the union off its back. Neutrality agreements<\/a> give unions sweeping access to employees\u2019 personal information and ban secret-ballot elections, since the employer agrees to support a union\u2019s attempt to organize its workforce.\n<\/p>\n

\nHoffa\u2019s letter shows that anything short of unyielding assistance to lock employees up in forced unionism by employers is unacceptable to union officials.\n<\/p>\n

\nIn a similar Right to Work Foundation-aided case in Batavia, Illinois<\/a>, another union with a neutrality pledge refused to go away from a FirstGroup facility \u2013 just like what is happening here.<\/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":[889],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"yoast_head":"\nJimmy Hoffa Ruffles CEO\u2019s Feathers Over Employees' Decision to Resist Teamsters - National Right to Work Foundation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nrtw.org\/es\/blog\/jimmy-hoffa-ruffles-ceo-s-feathers-over-employees-decision-to-resist-teamsters\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jimmy Hoffa Ruffles CEO\u2019s Feathers Over Employees' Decision to Resist Teamsters - National Right to Work Foundation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"What do union bosses do when independent-minded employees refuse to succumb to union organizing pressure? 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