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ployers many ways to delay the vote.
Union organizers can’t visit the work-
place and can’t even get workers ad-
dresses until late in the process. Em-
ployers can require workers to attend
anti-union meetings and one-on-one
sessions with supervisors. And em-
ployers routinely violate the law during
union campaigns, because the penalties
are so minor — workers fired for sup-
porting the union campaign only have
to be offered reinstatement and back
pay — minus whatever wages they
earned since the firing. And it can take
two to five years to get that, by which
time the failed union drive is just a
memory.
If a union wins an election, it can
take two years to get a first contract,
and studies show that half the time they
never get a first contract. The law says
the employer is supposed to bargain in
good faith, but in practice that’s pretty
meaningless; there’s very little a union
can do to make an employer sign a
contract if they don’t want to.
Little wonder then, that EFCA is far
and away the AFL-CIO’s highest prior-
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...Pulse of Oregon unions
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sel said, “including five or six 100 per-
cent.” You can’t find anything like that
today. “The union movement tries to
look at both sides, but in reality, it’s
harder and harder to support Republi-
cans”
Now, after feeling ignored by De-
mocrats, Bussel and Chamberlain say
labor may be coming into a political
moment in the sun.
“All the Democratic presidential
candidates have spoken much more
openly about unions than any set that I
can remember going back 30 years,”
says Bussel.
“The Democratic Party is waking
up to how important organized labor
is,” adds Chamberlain. “I can’t re-
member a time in recent history where
you had seven Democratic Party presi-
dential candidates all saying the ‘U’
word.”
“Working folks and the labor
movement will be front and center of
the Democratic campaigns next year,”
Chamberlain said. “The Democratic
Party has many components, but the
labor component is so important, espe-
cially when Wall Street is trying to run
this country.”
Labor Day Greetings
Bricklayers & Allied Craftworkers Local 1 and the
Oregon & Southwest Washington Mason Trades
Joint Apprenticeship Training Committee
Joe Luna
Keith Wright
Business Manager
Matt Eleazer
President/Business Rep
Terry Fuhrer
Vice President
Joe Luna
Recording Secretary
Nick Zorn
Sgt. at Arms
Steve Chambers, Scott Groza
Brick Arbitration Board
Rocky Hanes, Bart Jenson
Tile Arbitration Board
LABOR DAY is our nation’s
tribute to the contributions
workers like YOU have made
to the strength, prosperity and
well-being of our country!
C ONGRATULATIONS !
K EEP U P T HE GOOD W ORK !
T.J.
Office Manager
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NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS
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Management
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Labor
Dan Bonife, Alternate
Miles McCary
Matt Eleazer
Mark Roddy
Keith Wright
AUGUST 17, 2007