April 3, 2009
Phoenix sm workers get fired for trying to organize
Got this link to day, I’m going to paste in the description from the video page, but you need to go to the page and read some of the comments others are leaving… mind boggling what one plumber has to say about his BA
“True story of sheet metal workers in Phoenix working for a mechanical contractor named W.D. Manor who already has a union agreement with the UA plumbers and steamfitters union. When the employer found out the employees wanted to organize the fear and intimidation tactics began including TEN terminations and outsourcing their work, forbidding them from talking with other union employees etc. These violations of Federal labor Law are currently before the National Labor Relations Board. These employees have NO chance at a fair and free election BECAUSE of the employer’s actions!”
Check out this organizing video
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The theme from the beginning is one word……INSURANCE!!!!!
There is a great interview from the Daily Show on health care cost dragging the US down, I will have to find it.
Wow! You did good on this one. I thought I heard the plumbers & fitters were union? Could the fitters and plumbers have stood with them or would they have been fired also? You guys know there is a shop in our local with the same scenario don’t you? There are also shops in our union that subcontract SM work to non-union shops. I hope that the SM local#359 can bring those guys in and find them some work. Is there a way we can do a follow up?
I’m going to try to stay up to date with this story for a while.
You really need to go to the youtube page and read the comments, especially the plumber that talks about his BA’s response to this…. mind blowing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAxvOYvwL5M
wow it sucks that the Plumbing BA has taken sides with the owner. I see that other people have asked the same question I did. If the plumbers would have stood with them the shop may have been forced to have a union SM shop but since the SM workers are not already union members I am not sure how that would have worked out.
DONT TALK TO THE TINNERS!