Kennedy, Kerry Back Enterprise Workers’ Efforts to Form a Union

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AFL-CIO Blog News

by Mike Hall, Jul 14, 2007

Backed by the encouraging words of Massachusetts Sens. Edward Kennedy and John Kerry, workers at the Enterprise Rent-A-Car’s East Boston airport location who are fighting to a form union were joined with community supporters at a rally last week as the group launched a local boycott of the company over its anti-union tactics.

In early June, the workers turned in union authorization cards from 23 of the 30 car-prep employees and drivers and asked Enterprise to recognize IUE-CWA Local 201 as their union. The company refused.



On June 4, the workers filed for a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election. On June 13, Enterprise told the workers their jobs were being subcontracted to a Houston staffing company. If the workers wanted to continue their employment with the rental company, they were told they would have to apply for jobs at other company locations.

If the Employee Free Choice Act had been in effect when the Enterprise workers turned in the cards, they would have had their union. The act says that when a majority of workers sign union authorization cards and submit them to the NLRB, their choice to join a union will be recognized.

FULL story at link.





Read more: http://blog.aflcio.org/2007/07/14/kennedy-kerry-back-enterprise-workers-efforts-to-form-a-union/

[David__77]

1. Non-union progressive need to complement union efforts.

While there are laws restricting how unions may seek to economically damage companies, there are no such restrictions on other organizations. There needs to be a bolder effort to push the limits legally with regard to worker organization. The point would be to make opposing organizing more expensive that passively consenting to it.

[rox63]

2. Stories like this make me really proud of my excellent Senators

:applause:

[ProudDad]

3. It would be a lot better for Workers

if we could repeal this POS:

Taft Hatley Act of 1947 -- The final nail in the coffin of the Labor Movement.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taft-Hartley_Act

[EFerrari]

4. What would happen if we revived Labor in this country?

:think: