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.
FOXNews.com Wednesday, March 25, 2009
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.
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 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.
The latest version of the Employee Free Choice Act was introduced to both chambers of Congress on March 10, 2009.
FOX News' Brian Wilson contributed to this report.
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My Thoughts
Isn't this exactly what we've been telling everyone will happen, if card check passes? This "Soprano" style of vote getting will be commonplace at many workplaces across the country, if the unions and Democrats get their way.
Unions have ruined the auto and airline industries and education. Unchecked they will wreck the whole economy like they did during the Great Depression.
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