Drywall company that dared to go non-union

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.jordannews.com/news/next-door/union-targets-area-firm-103

Union targets area firm

Submitted by Mathias Baden on March 1, 2009 - 3:00pm.
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Shannon Fiecke of the Shakopee Valley News reports:

The relentless campaign against a Scott County drywall company that dared to go non-union has come to Shakopee.

Around mid-December, a Midwestern carpenters’ union began picketing outside the Voyager Bank building along Marschall Road to protest that building owner Greystone Construction hired Friedges Drywall to do a small job inside.

At first, a large group of protestors gathered and then a couple people passed out flyers. Three men, who declined to be identified or talk to a reporter, stood with a large sign that read, “Labor Dispute: Shame on Greystone Construction” and handouts that depicted a rat eating an American flag and calling Greystone a “bad corporate citizen for desecration of the American way of life.”

Greystone President Kevin O’Brien, who sent letters to clients explaining the situation, said the protest has nothing to do with his own employees.

“Greystone will stand on its record as a good corporate citizen in Shakopee for the last 21 years,” he said. “We’re not concerned about what some third party says.”

North Central States Regional Council of Carpenters has been running similar protests outside every job site of Friedges it can identify, causing the company to lose contracts, said Todd Friedges, one of four brothers who own the Elko New Market-based drywall company.

I call BS on the paragraph below.

Snip: “We probably treat them better than they’d be treated in a union,” he said. “In a union, you’re a number. You’re not a number here.”

FULL story at link.

[Warpy]

1. In my experience

workers unionize only when the boss is a bastard.

[rfranklin]

3. Most bosses are bastards...

Why base your actions on the exception?

[rfranklin]

2. Standard paternalism....

But when it comes down to brass tacks, those workers will be expendable.

[Redneck Socialist]

4. The snippet you quoted is typical corporate speak

At my workplace we were handed the exact same line "our employees don't need a union" at the "oh-my-god-the-sky-is-falling" employee free choice act meeting we were forced to go to a few months back.

I'm sure these companies are all reading from the same anti-union playbook.

[baldguy]

5. "Good corporate citizens" recognize unions.

[aquart]

6. "Dared to go"? You mean "greedy enough to go."

[blackdot]

7. Yet another reason I dislike unions.

[Omaha Steve]

8. Do tell

I'm all ears.

OS

[pocoloco]

9. What might that reason be??

Inquiring minds would like to know.

[baldguy]

10. Because he's been told to.

[Earth Bound Misfit]

11. Could you expand on that, please?

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