[Imc-summaries] Sen. Wellstone: Legislation to Advance Working Men and Women’s Right To Organize

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Locally, Supervalu, based in Minnesota, got away with the kind of tactics this bill addresses. Supervalu fired more than 150 workers in its Urbana transportation dept just over two years ago for union organizing and got away with it. This, in spite of the fact that the dept. head was unwilling to lie for the company and volunteered to testify about Supervalu's lawbreaking to the NLRB, who prevented him from testifying. The company brought in to take these jobs, supposedly independent Brisk Transportation, is owned by the brother-in-law of the chairman of the board of Supervalu. ML

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