[Peace-discuss] Re: [sf-core] Urbana City Council Approves Resolution in Support of Employee Free Choice Act

Tue Dec 16 10:01:48 CST 2008

This is terrific. Thanks to all who helped this happen. Barbara

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Robert Naiman <naiman.uiuc at gmail.com>wrote:

>   For Immediate Release: Contact: Robert Naiman,
> Central
> Illinois Jobs with Justice
> Monday, December 15, 2008
>
> Urbana City Council Approves Resolution in Support of Employee Free Choice
> Act
> Firing of Pantagraph Employees in Bloomington, IL, Lockout of Mental
> Health Employees in Effingham, IL, Show Need for National Labor Law Reform
>
> On Monday December 15, the Urbana, IL City Council voted in favor of a
> resolution introduced by Alderman Charlie Smyth in support of the
> Employee Free Choice Act. The vote was 5-2. Voting yes were: Charlie
> Smyth [D-1], David Gehrig [D-2], Robert E. Lewis [D-3], Brandon C.
> Bowersox [D-4], and Dennis P. Roberts [D-5]. Voting no were: Heather
> D. Stevenson [R-6] and Lynne C. Barnes [D-7].
>
> The Employee Free Choice Act would allow employees covered by the
> National Labor Relations Act to form a recognized union when a
> majority of workers sign authorization cards. It would increase
> penalties on employers for violating labor law, and it would create an
> arbitration mechanism to guarantee that employees in form a union can
> get a first contract without indefinite delay.
>
> "The action of the Urbana City Council shows that this is an issue of
> community concern," said Robert Naiman, a member of Central Illinois
> Jobs with Justice, which supported the resolution. "As Alderman Smyth
> argued to his fellow council members, workers who want to be
> represented by a union have a right to a level playing field, and that
> doesn't exist today."
>
> On December 3, the Champaign County Democratic Central Committee
> approved a resolution in support of the Employee Free Choice Act.
>
> Recent events in East Central Illinois illustrate the need for labor
> law reform:
>
> - Employees at Heartland Human Services in Effingham, IL, a nonprofit
> mental health counseling facility, have been "locked out" - not
> allowed to return to work - since they voted in June to end a yearlong
> strike. The employees formed a union with AFSCME Council 31 for the
> first time in February 2006 and had gone on strike in a dispute that
> included issues of pay and time off. They still do not have a
> contract, almost three years they formed their union.
>
> - Attempts by employees of the Pantagraph newspaper in
> Bloomington, IL. to gain union presentation underscore why passage of
> the Employee Free
> Choice Act is needed. Working with the St. Louis Newspaper Guild/CWA,
> production workers at the newspaper gathered enough support to
> petition the National Labor Relations Board on July 1 for a
> representation election. Instead of supporting the democratic process,
> the Lee-owned newspaper retained union-busting attorney Michael Zinser
> to obstruct it.
>
> Lee fired two of the union's most ardent supporters. The Guild,
> noting that "both of these individuals had performed house calls on
> our behalf and had become the face of the Guild with Pantagraph
> employees," has filed charges of unfair labor practices on behalf of
> both employees. Firing employees for supporting a union is a flagrant
> violation of labor law; but current sanctions are so light that many
> anti-union employers simply accept them as "a cost of doing business."
>
> Jobs with Justice is a coalition of community, faith-based, labor and
> student groups that promotes economic justice and workers' rights.
>
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