Remington found GUILTY on 21 counts!!

http://www.unitehere878.org/2013/06/remington-found-guilty-on-21-counts/

June 11, 2013

Second Administrative Law Judge Finds Merit to Charges Brought by National Labor Relations Board against Sheraton Anchorage Hotel



On June 6, 2013, for the second time in less than eighteen months, an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) has ruled decisively in favor of UNITE HERE Local 878 regarding its long-running dispute with the Sheraton Anchorage Hotel & Spa.

In the most recent ruling, Judge John J. McCarrick found that Remington Lodging & Hospitality (“Remington”), the Texas-based corporation that operates the Sheraton Hotel, unlawfully (1) interrogated and surveilled its employees, (2) threatened to call the police on its own employees if they exercised their rights, (3) disciplined numerous employees for exercising their rights, including unlawfully firing three employees in retaliation for their having supported of Local 878, (4) maintained and enforced unlawful policies restricting worker rights, (5) banned union representatives from its property, and (6) unilaterally implemented numerous changed policies without first bargaining about those changes with the Union, among many other violations of the law.

This decision follows closely on the heels of an April 24, 2013, ruling from the three-person Board that governs the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the agency that enforces the National Labor Relations Act. That decision, Sheraton Anchorage, 359 NLRB No. 95 (2013), affirmed the August 25, 2011, decision of ALJ Gregory Meyerson, concluding that the Sheraton Anchorage had engaged in

numerous unfair labor practices, including (1) unlawfully imposing new requirements that housekeepers clean 17 rooms per shift, that employees clock in and out for lunch, and that employees who eat the food prepared in the cafeteria pay $1 for the meal; (2) unlawfully taking away from the workers the Union health benefits plan; (3) unlawfully firing four workers and unlawfully disciplining many others for engaging in activities in support of their union; (4) maintaining and enforcing eight unlawful rules in its employee handbook; and (5) unlawfully withdrawing recognition from the Union as the bargaining representative of the workers based on signatures on a petition that Remington unlawfully obtained through threats and promises.
- See more at: http://www.unitehere878.org/2013/06/remington-found-guilty-on-21-counts/#sthash.NEEQq4xR.dpuf

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