FORMER UFCW ORGANIZER SPEAKS OUT Rian Wathen, a former Director of Organizing for the United Food & Commercial Workers speak about the dangers of the deceptively-named Employee Free Choice Act, as well as union organizing tactics that union use to get employees to sign union authorization cards.
View the video at right to learn some dirty tricks unions play on employees.
WHAT OTHERS SAY ABOUT THE UFCW At the right are links to Unfair Labor Practice charges (in PDF) filed in 2008 with the National Labor Relations Board. In addition to a few charges filed by companies and other individuals, the majority of these charges have been filed against the UFCW by UFCW members for the union's alleged "failure to represent" them. Although the entire charge is public information, certain information has been crossed out as a courtesy to protect the names, addresses and telephone numbers of those individuals workers who have courageously filed these charges against the union.
Not all workers enjoy being forced to pay union dues in order to keep their jobs. Danielle Cookson (video at right) is one young worker that did not appreciate the UFCW's threats to have her fired, so she fired back...with federal charges.
EMPLOYEES FIGHT UFCW'S DIRTY ORGANIZING TRICKS? When the UFCW targets workers, it doesn't always play by rules that most would consider fair, as these individuals told the National Labor Relations Board: • View charge #1 • View charge #2 • View charge #3
In fact, in at least one case, the UFCW has even offered $30 cash (in increments) for cards (view here).
UFCW REP GETS RIPPED BY DOBBS CNN's Lou Dobbs rips into a UFCW representative for the union representing and taking money from undocumented workers.
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