SEIU Organizing Tactics Include Intimidation and Lying To Workers, Company Alleges
Posted by LaborUnionReport
RedState
Friday, February 24th at 11:00AM EST
One of the biggest problems with the process known as card check (a major component in the union-backed and misleadingly-named Employee Free Choice Act) is that unions are legally allowed to mislead workers into signing their rights over to a union.
Under various NLRB decisions that span decades, the federal agency that enforces most of America’s private-sector’s labor law has refused to interfere with union organizers’ ability to use pressure tactics and deceive workers into unionization.
Now, an employer in the Northeast is challenging the Service Employees International Union’s allegedly deceptive tactics as it attempts to get union authorization cards signed in an ongoing unionization campaign.
Fellowship Health Resources runs about a dozen group homes around Cape Cod and, according to the Cape Cod Times, has become a target of the SEIU.
A Rhode Island nonprofit that runs several group homes on the Cape and Islands has filed a labor complaint against a union trying to organize its employees.
Fellowship Health Resources Inc. accuses representatives of SEIU Local 509, a union representing human service workers, of intimidating and misleading employees on the job and of tracking them down at home.
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Late last month, union representatives visited night shift workers at group homes under false pretenses, urging employees to sign a survey they were told was for Fellowship, Dziobek said.
He claims that the papers were actually union authorization cards.
The union needs to get at least 30 percent of employees to sign authorization cards for the labor board to authorize a vote on whether to unionize, Dziobek said.
“What I take exception to is the tactics,” he said. A staff person at a group living program in Eastham turned union representatives away at 9 p.m. but they came back at 12:30 a.m. and left only after the staffer threatened to call the police, he said.
Fellowship employees also have complained about being visited three or four times at home by union representatives, Dziobek said. “Staff are pretty upset,” he said. They are asking, “How did they get my personal cell phone number?”
This is not the first time the SEIU has allegedly resorted to pressure tactics. ...
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