Posted on 10/08/2019 12:50:55 PM PDT by matt04
Staff attorneys at the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation have won favorable settlements for Stop & Shop supermarket employees whose rights were violated by United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) officials before, during, and after the union boss-ordered strike on the grocery chain in April 2019. The extraordinary settlements were directed by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Region 1 in Boston.
Two employees, Matthew Coffey and Saood Rafique, had been misled by union agents from the start of their respective employments into thinking that joining the UFCW was a condition of employment at Stop & Shop. Such an arrangement, sometimes called a closed shop, was outlawed by the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947. Having never informed the employees that they had the rights to refrain from formal union membership and to pay reduced fees as nonmembers, UFCW bosses also charged each of them full union dues for years.
After independently learning their rights at the onset of the April strike, both men decided to resign union membership and return to work. UFCW officials then threatened them with illegal union discipline for violating their alleged membership oaths.
The settlements require UFCW union officials to post remedial rights notices in over 70 Stop & Shop stores, as well as on the internet and in the unions monthly newsletter, to properly inform employees of their rights to both abstain from union membership and pay only the amount of union fees directly germane to bargaining. These settlements enforce the Foundation-won CWA v. Beck Supreme Court decision. The remedial notices also announce that UFCW officials will return to Coffey and Rafique dues seized from them in violation of their Beck rights.
(Excerpt) Read more at nrtw.org ...
The US hasn’t needed unions for a very long time.
Unions came about because of wages, safety, etc. Now all of that is covered by various government rules/agencies that actually enforce the laws. The only area I still see the need for a Union is Police and Fire unions. We have seen numerous cases of Dem mayors, councils, etc. throw officers and depts. under the bus when something happens that is justified but upsets SJWs.
Shocked!
Unions are archaic socialist relics. They certainly need to be completely abolished in government and education.
Unions have a place - as counters to monopolistic practices by business when they exist.
That said, they are fundamentally a monopolistic practice. ...Which is bad.
If businesses have no ability to enforce monopolistic practices, there is very little to no call for unions.
Too bad A&P failed
They could have merged and become
Stop & P
The Unions attempted to permanently cripple Stop & Shop, the largest grocery chain in New England, effectively over $2 Dollars per week for Employees, after their more substantial negotiated raises.
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