Social-service agency accused of intimidating pro-union employees

[thoughtanarchist]

Social-service agency accused of intimidating pro-union employees
By MICHAEL LAFLEUR, Sun Staff
Lowell Sun

LOWELL -- The heated battle to unionize at the Lowell agency LifeLinks Inc. has carried over into contract talks between the agency and its newly unionized work force.

Officials with Local 509 of the Service Employees International Union have filed more than 20 unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board against LifeLinks, which serves developmentally disabled adults throughout Greater Lowell. The charges accuse the agency of wrongfully suspending or otherwise targeting, intimidating or coercing union activist employees, who voted to join SEIU in February.
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http://www.lowellsun.com/front/ci_3819512

[rodeodance]

1. these workers have a lot of courage. The best to you.

[thoughtanarchist]

4. This one isn't my fight personally...

but I sympathize with them. I held this type of job working my way through school and saw the same coercion at that other agency. These are low paying jobs and often do not pay benefits (they hire part timers for 35-38 hour weeks to that end)

The Repug immigration screeching woke me up to this trend that I can only describe as a War on Labor. I'm noticing more and more of this behavior and I want to shine a light on it where I see it.

edit: spelling

[Lefty48197]

2. It's amazing how much ugliness comes out of the anti-union

workers and management during a unionization drive. I've seen it first hand. It's the ugliest human emotion I have ever seen, and I just cannot comprehend it.

[Omaha Steve]

3. It is the union's fault that....

workers want a safe place to work. That they want equal rights and pay as workers regardless of race or sex. That children don't work side by side with them. That benefits that are pro family (Republican family values ;-)) are a part of the job. Time and a half after 40 hours. Tell me again why are people anti union?