[lbo-talk] SEIU allows employers to exclude workers from unions

[Mark Rickling]

It seems as if you don't understand this. No rights have been
sacrificed at all. No election agreement between a union and an
employer could "trade away workers' rights" under the Wagner Act. UNC
workers are free to get 30% of their unit on authorization cards and
file for an NLRB election, just like any other group of workers
covered by the NLRA.

SEIU and Unite Here! have agreed not to organize this unit under the
agreement, but UNC workers are free to organize with any other union,
or form their own independent union. A good question to ask yourself:
what food service organizing is going (or has gone on in the past) on
besides what happens under the context of this agreement? Why is that?

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu> wrote:
>
> Another lovely SEIU union building strategy: allow food service companies to
> decide which of their units will be unionized and which will not.  Details
> at http://insidehighered.com/news/2008/08/22/seiu and be sure to look at the
> "summary of the "Big 3" agreement" in para 10.  I guess it's easy to build
> unions--if you sacrifice some workers' rights to unionize!
>
> Miles
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