BY- Jack Profijt Well the propaganda machine has started again. The first letter filled with only half truths and innuendo hit the floor around 10:00 am this morning. The letter claims that the associates have the right to chose, to be unionized or not, this is true, they do have the right. But the amount of fear and control that exists in our place of employment kills any notion of democratic process. Just take the comments of shift managers and supervisors in different departments, this is a quote "we have been told that we have no opinion" How's that for democratic process.
It is also true that associates voted in 1999, 2001 and 2003 and voted it down. But what they don't tell you is that for at least one of those drives our employer hired a large number of part time associates just days before the vote, upon a return of a no vote, they were all let go or given no shifts so they would have to quit on their own. Another thing they don't mention is the shift premiums that they said they were going to offer, and the 24 hour day care that they were considering. They also mentioned gym memberships or a work out facility for associates. They pulled those little pearls out for the last unionization drive.
After reading this letter, one thing should stick in all of their minds. If the employer likes to listen to what the associates say, I would really like to meet the guy that suggested that they remove the computer reimbursement, or the one that said "hey lets not get a raise this year". "Lets have a lump sum payment instead so that we wont have to worry about those pesky pension contributions we wont be getting" I would really like to meet the associate they listened to for that one.
It also goes on to say that the union claims to have 40 % percent of cards signed. Well here is the thing, if they didn't have at least that many, the Labour Board would not have entertained a vote. So I don't think it is just a claim, I know its fact.
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