{"id":253,"date":"2008-04-25T14:12:34","date_gmt":"2008-04-25T14:12:34","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T18:17:03","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:17:03","slug":"foundation-helps-employees-win-nlrb-ruling-for-worker-free-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nrtw.org\/es\/blog\/foundation-helps-employees-win-nlrb-ruling-for-worker-free-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Foundation Helps Employees Win NLRB Ruling for Worker Free Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nA recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nlrb.gov\/shared_files\/ALJ%20Decisions\/2008\/JD-19-08.pdf\">ruling<\/a> by a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) administrative law judge upheld the right of employees to sign a union decertification petition in the midst of a debilitating strike. More importantly, the ruling also endorsed the employer&#8217;s refusal to hand over non-striking workers&#8217; home addresses and other personal information to union officials bent on harassment and intimidation.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOn the advice of Foundation staff attorneys, a substantial majority (77 percent) of non-striking employees at a Tenneco facility in Grass Lakes, Michigan signed a petition in favor of union decertification. Unwilling to relinquish their stranglehold on workplace representation, United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 660 officials filed a complaint with the NLRB, arguing that non-striking employees favored decertification only because of Tenneco&#8217;s unfair labor practices. The NLRB judge rejected these claims and concluded that the UAW&#8217;s objections to the decertification process were entirely without merit.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMore significant, however, was the stern rebuke delivered to UAW officials for demanding Tenneco hand over the non-striking workers&#8217; personal contact information, including home addresses. Union officials claimed they needed the employees&#8217; home addresses to &quot;communicate&quot; the benefits of membership directly, but the judge decided that the threat of union intimidation justified Tenneco&#8217;s decision to withold personal information from UAW militants.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe judge noted that the union&#8217;s rationale for acquiring the employees&#8217; home addresses was suspect, as &quot; . . . the Union had other viable means of communicating  with the replacements short of having access to their homes.&quot; He also recognized that union operatives had exhibited a pattern of harassment, having previously &quot; . . . traveled to the personal residence of two members, whose address they certainly had access to, and staged a protest of their stance on the strike.&quot; The judge further noted the UAW&#8217;s &quot;venomous&quot; and &quot;disrespectful&quot; attitude towards non-striking workers. So much for fair representation.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFull text of the NLRB ruling is available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nlrb.gov\/shared_files\/ALJ%20Decisions\/2008\/JD-19-08.pdf\">here<\/a>. It&#8217;s a long decision, but you&#8217;ll find the judge&#8217;s response to union demands for employees&#8217; personal information on pages 62-65. His assesment of the decertification petition&#8217;s legality is available on pages 74-79.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nStrike-related violence is an under-reported aspect of compulsory unionization, and the UAW has a long history of <a href=\"\/profiles\/huang\/index.htm\">harassment<\/a> and abuse. In fact, Freedom@Work recently exposed a <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=E1TkxsWP13I\">similar<\/a> <a href=\"\/press\/2008\/03\/workers-seek-documents-regarding-pulaski-police-misconduct-refusing-protect-them-union\">campaign<\/a> of <a href=\"\/blog\/photo-surfaces-volvo-employees-smashed-out-car-window-more-come\">intimidation<\/a> against non-striking workers at a Volvo auto plant in Pulaski County, Virginia.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\nA recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nlrb.gov\/shared_files\/ALJ%20Decisions\/2008\/JD-19-08.pdf\">ruling<\/a> by a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) administrative law judge upheld the right of employees to sign a union decertification petition in the midst of a debilitating strike. 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