Posted on 05/20/2015 2:37:57 PM PDT by markomalley
Alabama factory workers voted for the fifth time in two years to break ties with the UAW on Tuesday.
Workers at NTN-Bower voted 74-52 to boot the union off the premises of the manufacturer, making it the third time anti-union employees have beaten UAW Local 1990 in the last 18 months.
Local 1990 did not respond to request for comment.
Union opponents have received legal assistance from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation throughout the process. NRTW spokesman Patrick Semmens said the fifth vote should settle any doubts about the will of the workers.
“Once again, employees at the Hamilton NTN-Bower plant have made it abundantly clear that they are not interested in the UAW’s so-called ‘representation,’” he said in a statement to the Washington Free Beacon.
The 22-vote margin is a bit smaller than the fourth ballot held in February, in which workers voted 82-50. The union filed challenges to the fourth ballot before the regional National Labor Relations Board, alleging that management interfered with the campaign. The NLRB ordered a fifth ballot in May.
“Unfortunately, it has already taken these workers five elections in less than two years to rid themselves of one stubborn union,” Semmens said. “Employees shouldn’t have to clear this many hurdles to remove an unwanted union.”
The union had managed to narrowly win one of the five secret ballot elections in January. Those results were dismissed after it was revealed that somebody had stuffed the ballot boxes: 148 were counted, but only 139 workers voted.
Alabama is a right-to-work state, allowing workers to opt out of any union without fear of losing their jobs. A slim majority of 140 eligible employees were members of the union in 2013 when 74 workers paid dues. Local 1990 has seen its support from the shop vanish throughout the two-year process. Membership fell to 62 in 2014 after the first two votes were overruled.
Now that support has dropped to just 52 workers, Semmens said that he hopes the union and labor regulators will accept that the UAW is not welcome at NTN-Bower anymore.
“It is our hope that the Obama NLRB will finally certify these results and not allow UAW bosses and lawyers to play more games to thwart the will of the employees at NTN-Bower,” Semmens said.
“Employees shouldn’t have to clear this many hurdles to remove an unwanted union.”
But...
but...
The Democrat Party needs the revenue!!
Keep voting until you win...
I expect an EO any day now...
I guess these Alabama boys need to start breaking some kneecaps to get the message across to these Yankee Union thugs...
Evidently, the union goons have not broken enough arms and legs. And have not destroyed enough of the plant’s machinery.
Looks like they produce bearings and hubs.
Did the union include deceased members votes?
Exactly how many times does it take to get the union out? Good grief!!!
What part of HELL NO do they not understand?..............
All they need is another six or seven votes and they just might be getting somewhere! The "United Awful Workers" need more time to figure out how to change those ballots in their favor.
“Evidently, the union goons have not broken enough arms and legs.”
Here’s what the union goons face next:
Union cancels Boeing vote, claiming gun-toting workers told it to take off
Not unless the dead can walk. The only votes that count are those cast by eligible voters who show up to vote. A simple majority of those who show up to vote decides the issue. Therefore, Companies and Unions both urge the eligible employees to vote.
Thats the real “crime” here. Five will get you fifty the union told the employees who originally voted to bring in a union “Just give us a try; if it doesn’t work out you can always vote us out”. As this event shows, it is very difficult to get rid of the union once it is certified.
Good for them. I quit my job building the then new DC-9’s after only a few months upon returning from the military in the sixties, BECAUSE OF THE UAW. I won’t go into it as it’s a lengthy story, but that union really pee’d me off. Only other union I worked in after that ‘cause I had to to get the job was the ILWU. They pee’d me off too. NOT a union type of guy I guess.
Funny you say that...if I recall correctly, one of the earlier votes were nulled voided because a few dead employees would up on the vote tallies...The "Yes" tally
I like the workers attitude myself.
NLRB will go for best 57 out of 113 tries to keep the union.
The gubmint doesn’t care what the people want. They will find or invent some reason to nullify the results. The lie is the democrats handmaiden.
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