Teamsters Union Local 773 files complaints against employer

http://www.midatlanticlabor.com/appiesnet/wordpress/?p=1024

BY PAUL TUCKER
THEUNIONNEWSABE@AOL.COM

BETHLEHEM, July 6th- The International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) Union Local 773 has filed multiple complaints against an employer alleging the company violated the National Labor Relations Act (NLRAct).

On June 29th and June 30th, Local 773 filed Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) charges against Americold Bethlehem. Local 773 also filed a ULP on April 14th alleging the employer violated the NLRAct during the organizing campaign the union was conducting.

On February 20th, Local 773 filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Region Four office in Philadelphia, requesting the agency conduct a election to determine if approximately 215 full-time and regular part-time forklift operators, cleaners, maintenance, inventory control, cycle counter, and line leaders workers of the food products warehouse operated by the company on Brodhead Road in Bethlehem wanted to be union represented.

The workers voted 118 against unionizing to 70 being represented by Local 773 on March 31st. However, the union believed company officials violated the NLRAct during the compaign.

The union filed a ULP on February 17th and amended their complaint on April 14th, which alleged the Employer, through its representatives, beginning November 1st, 2008 had engaged in unlawful conduct against Union organizers and pro-Union employees.

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That if people were trying to organize, you can bet your sweet ass that the company interfered in some way, especially Bethlehem. Common sense and history says that they couldn't NOT interfere.