Target workers at New York store reject union

Roooooters/Yahoo ^ | circa June 17, 2011

[Second Amendment First]

I'll repost a comment I made on an earlier thread:

The NLRB is working hard to carry the labor unions. They know the free market will eventually kill trade unions.

Recently, the unions have been making a big push to try to organize companies, gambling that the noise over public sector unions will give them some momentum. The NLRB is giving them cover by not reporting results.

I know of a company that was recently the target of an organizing campaign. The election result was dismal for the union: less than 25% of employees voted for the union. Within days, several organizers who were "salted" into the company quit their jobs.

Where can you find out the results of union elections? Why the NLRB website, of course. But wait, when you go to the election reports page this is what you get:

Election Reports

Please note: The National Labor Relations Board is in the process of moving all regional offices to an agency-wide uniform case processing system, which will result in more efficient processing and ensure more consistent and up-to-date case information. During this transition period, from April through September 2011, the monthly election reports will not be available. All election reports for that period will be compiled and posted here by October 2011. In addition, the tables will be simplified and will no longer include information about a union’s affiliation with the AFL-CIO. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. For further information, please contact the NLRB’s Office of Public Affairs at publicinfo@nlrb.gov.

http://www.nlrb.gov/election-reports

How convenient to hide the results so as not to embarrass the unions. They'll just stop reporting the results.

[Texas Eagle]

Not Weiner's district, but still a Dem: Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY04)

Talk about Miracle On The Hudson.

Or whatever river is in this RAT-ette's district.

[Popman]

Redundant statement; being anti-union is self preservation.

Basically I would agree, but we do have a class of citizens cave dwellers who do not think past "what's in it for me"

They weight the economic scales and this time the unions lost, next time they might win if it short term benefits them

They could care less about what the union will do to the company who employs them or what condition that company will be in ten years from now.

[Mr. K]

Too bad they didnt have “card check”

Each worker could have then been saved the trouble of voting

3 or 4 nice, friendly, and helpful unions guys could have come right to your house and shown you where to sign your approval for the union, right there in front of them

[rockrr]

I worked in an open shop where some of the dead-weight tried to unionize. The guy I was teamed up with was a hard-leftist toilet drinker who would spend all day looking for ways to get out of actually doing any work. I was always careful not to reveal any of my personal views or political inclinations. All he knew about me was that I was a musician and he assumed that I was therefore a fellow leftist.

He approached me about the push and tried to enlist me (sign the union card). Initially I just said that I was indifferent to the effort (didn’t want to tip my hand), but as time wore on and the they neared the magic 51% mark he grew more persistent. Finally I told him flat out “No”.

On the pretext of going out to lunch he set me up to be bushwhacked with members of the union. There were three of them, including the local business manager. They tried to “convince me” of the benefits of joining and I said “Not interested”. They persisted and I explained that they had stepped over the line and were now threatening me. If they didn’t back off I would defend myself and someone would go to the morgue. I did not display, but they knew what I was talking about.

When I got back to work I reported the incident and met with HR and my manager. They told me not to worry, nothing more would come of it.

The union filed a complaint with the NLRB and named my manager AND ME in the complaint. They alleged harassment, intimidation, threats of violence, and anti-union intimidation. The NLRB ruled in our favor.

I then went around to each employee who was subject to the effort and told of the efforts to intimidate. Two employees told of similar events and how they signed under duress. I urged them to go to HR but they feared retaliation. I convinced enough fellow employees to resoundingly reject the union bid.

I got a TRO against the union business manager thug but it expired and the judge wouldn’t extend it. I still have to work around the bastard who set me up.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

This is EXACTLY why we need card-check.

Workers should have no say in being unionized.

Their union dues are too important to electing Democrats to leave union membership in their hands.

[EDINVA]

“None of the Minneapolis-based company’s 1,755 or so U.S. stores have union-represented employees.”

Actually, I find this hilarious. MN former senator, now governor, is Mark Dayton, a Target heir. Big time lib DEM. Would love to see his voting record on union matters.

But good for the Valley Stream NY workers!

[ken5050]

Unintended consequences. Union bosses in big cities..like NYC, Chicago, have successfully for years fought to keep the big-box stores out..so they build them in the adjacent suburbs.

Had they allowed a Wal-Mart, or a Target, to build in an inner city neighborhood, practically all hiring would have been 100% local, and minority. It would then be pretty easy for the unions to win an organizing election..and once they have one,,,well..it's the camel's nose under the tent...

[Peet]

“He said there were other more aggressive actions rumored but he didn’t want anything to do with that stuff which is why he became a company man.”

One they pulled during our decertification attempt (failed) was to put “Moving, everything must go, no reasonable offer refused. Sale starts Saturday 7:00 A.M.” in the local paper.

[wastedyears]

Now I wish I lived in Long Island. Considering this, I’d definitely work for them again, as long as it’s in an office, and not unloading a truck in which I’m not at all built for.

[wastedyears]

As far as I know, it’s Nassau County people working with the NY Islanders on the Nassau Coliseum. From what I’ve read so far about the stadium, Albany or US Congress/Senate hasn’t been involved, and I hope they never do.