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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/09/11/1328811/-New-28-page-complaint-from-ALRB-chief-prosecutor-details-Gerawan-s-anti-UFW-campaign
New 28-page complaint from ALRB chief prosecutor details Gerawans intensive and ongoing drive since 2012 to prevent workers from ever winning a union contract
Decertification "leader" Sylvia Lopezs anti-union role began before starting work at Gerawan in June 2013; complaint details that she missed 75 percent of work over the next four months without penalty in company-spawned bid to get rid of the UFW
In a blistering new 28-page complainttantamount to an indictmentthe chief prosecutor for the Agricultural Labor Relations Board detailed how the UFWs renewed attempt to negotiate a union contract with Gerawan Farming in October 2012 sparked an intensive and ongoing campaign by Gerawan to: undermine the UFWs status as its employees bargaining representative; to turn it employees against the union; to promote decertification of the UFW; and to prevent the UFW from ever representing its employees under a collective bargaining agreement.
The consolidated complaint, the fifth since last year, was issued on Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2014, by ALRB General Counsel Sylvia Torres Guillen, who said in a news release that, No employee in the fields should be coerced by their employers when it comes to deciding whether union representation is best for them. The Agricultural Labor Relations Act ensures that agricultural employees can select a collective bargaining representative free from employer interference.
The complaint specifies a long chronology of serious, multiple and repeated violations of California farm labor law that have been outlined in the four earlier complaints, three from 2013 and one issued in April 2014.
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yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)We thought in 2008 we were electing a progressive government which would begin to enforce and expand labor rights and laws. Instead, we get mealy-mouthed lawyering and corporations that have no fear violating labor law at will.
The Republicans won this one.
Omaha Steve
(99,072 posts)The BIG problem is that EFCA didn't get passed. We were two votes short. Nelson and Lincoln.
EFCA would have created new penalties, card check, and more.
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yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)not an indictment. It may lead to an actionable enforcement action, fines and such, maybe?
Where activists on the streets are getting arrested, and workers are denied the right to organize, and agreements are being tossed aside by elected officials after the government entity decided not to honor the agreement, and we have the republican't argument we were blackmailed by unions, and Democrats gave away the store in bargaining to buy votes, and we can't afford taxes and funding pensions, and budgets have to be slashed so today we have less and lower-paid non-union public service sector employees -- it just doesn't strike me we are winning anything.
I'm not complaining! This is inevitable, isn't it?
It hurts today, but could it wake us up and we see what is going on, what we are enabling?
The NLRB has a finger plugging a hole in the dike. Activists and protesters are rising. How much more before we are all marching in the streets?
Omaha Steve
(99,072 posts)Other than back pay for a fired employee that has to deduct wages he made at other jobs during that time is about it.
EFCA at least had penalties and double back pay etc....
And the fast food strikes are starting something. Too early to know if it becomes a movement.