Remember Tom's letter to FedEx Employees in the last "Independent Times" asking us to do our homework on the " Employee Free Choice Act" Well here is some info about his unionfacts.com website.
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Full page ads recently appeared in major newspapers announcing the creation
of something called The Center for Union Facts and its website unionfacts.com. A
more honest name for this new lobbying agency might be Center for Union Busting.
The Center was founded by Rick Berman, president of the lobbying firm Berman
and Company, who is notorious for setting up such front groups for business.
Among Berman's spider web of front groups are the Employment Policies Institute
(anti-minimum wage & anti-living wage), Center for Consumer Freedom
(pro-tobacco), and American Beverage Institute (pro-drunk driving). Berman has
also propagandized in favor of cancer causing food additives and in favor of
obesity causing diets.
None of Berman's many enterprises reveal the source of their funding; however
documents released in the settlement agreements with the tobacco companies shed
some light on money he received from Big Tobacco.
Recent union successes, says AFL-CIO spokeswoman Lane Windham, make this an
opportune time for Berman to gather money from union busting corporations. "It's
not surprising that this group has decided to fight back against workers'
efforts and fight efforts to keep corporate power in check."
The website compiles a lot of
publicly available information but much of it is out of date, inaccurate, or
incomplete.
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7 comments:
Last night at the WHT PM shift supervisor Frank V. was harassing employees yelling at them in a belligerent manner. Frank was staring with a hostile look at this employee and then very angrily told the employee to "Hurry up people are waiting for you!!!!!!"
This is very much the norm behavior for this supervisor who has been terrorizing employees for a long time and Frank has even remarked that he thinks this style of behavior is "funny". This is why we need a Union in Fedex to stop this kind of reckless supervisor behavior. Why is it that employees who work with class and dignity have to deal with this supervisor Frank V. who continually disrespects employees?
Wow. To put it simply, I'm NOT impressed by the way the company is handling this. Those right-wing groups have been doing nothing but grinding away American workers' rights.
Together we stand; divided we fall.
Things have gotten so bad for us workers at Fedex. Now they want dockworkers to become drivers. If you fail the driver program you cannot retake it. Say bye bye to your benefits. A Union can and will stop that from happening to the full timers benefits. By Thanksgiving I guarantee these full time dockworkers will then be part time. This is due to the greed from the alighty Fedex machine. These service center managers, om's and supervisors: instead of them attending anti Union seminars and trying to divide the workplace maybe they should be defending the people who work so hard under them. They say a Union buster term that we are at "war" with them. So what are the managers going to do shoot us or what??? That is rediculous we just want to better our work conditions and help make Fedex number one in the workplace too. They have continually treated us disrespectfully treating us like second rate workers so lets keep fighting and bring this Union in now before it is too late. Don't be scared of these tyrants trying to destroy your family just go Teamster.
This is for all FedEx management, We the employees at FedEx are wise now, just keep on lying to us because you know what they say out there sooner or later I'll hear the TRUTH......You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time. ABRAHAM LINCOLN
"Why is it that employees who work with class and dignity have to deal with this supervisor Frank V. who continually disrespects employees?"
It's simple, brother: Frank V. has issues.
I really feel for you guys in California. It's not much better in our region. What kind of man glares at other people? I've had run ins with many supervisors who seem to have problems controling their emotions, too. I imagine you have the ocasional clown who snaps impatiently at employees. Me too.
I salivate over the day we hold elections and people like Frankie V. find out they need to grow the hell up and act like adults rather than children with loaded diapers!
i can't believe that idiot still has a job these not the first time he has done such a thing
i can't believe that idiot still has a job these not the first time he has done such a thing
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