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June 17, 2005
Speaking of Innovative Organizing
Since UNITE-HERE got a little dissed in one of the threads, I thought this agreement with the Angelica laundering and uniform company was worth highlighting.
Along with an agreement for the two-thirds of Angelica's facilities where the union already is recognized, the agreement guarantees simpler procedures for organizing its non-union facilities:
Two policies will govern those elections.This is an interesting twist; since union recognition in "right to work" states never leads to anyone being required to join a union, conservative complaints about card check agreements denying people a vote don't make any sense -- to the extent they make sense even in union shop states where everyone gets to vote on union leadership and contracts in any case.In right-to-work states, workers are able to say individually whether they want union representation. In those states, Angelica agreed to card-check recognition.
In remaining states, Unite Here will organize future Angelica facilities with private, non-NLRB supervised elections.
In that sense, it raises the question why any employers in right-to-work states have anti-union employees having the right to vote against other workers unionizing?
Posted by Nathan at June 17, 2005 01:19 PM
