Jobs with Justice Blog » california http://www.jwjblog.org Building a movement for workers' rights & economic justice. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:32:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Activists Hit Rite Aid Today in Support of Warehouse Workers, Employee Free Choice Act http://www.jwjblog.org/2009/08/activists-hit-rite-aid-today-in-support-of-warehouse-workers-employee-free-choice-act/ http://www.jwjblog.org/2009/08/activists-hit-rite-aid-today-in-support-of-warehouse-workers-employee-free-choice-act/#comments Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:01:45 +0000 Ricardo Valadez http://www.jwjblog.org/?p=201 MA JwJ activists support Rite-Aid WorkersYet another example of why working people need the Employee Free Choice Act.  In 2006, warehouse workers in Lancaster, CA decided they wanted to form a union.  Despite the company’s attacks, a majority the of the workers voted to join ILWU Local 26 in March 2008.  But more than a year later, the workers have not been able to negotiate a first contract.

Today, as these workers continue fighting for a contract, Jobs with Justice is releasing a report to tell their story.  Rite Aid, Oliver J. Bell & Associates, and the Case for the Employee Free Choice Act documents how management employed union-busters and violated labor laws.  Last year, the National Labor Relations Board was prepared to charge Rite Aid with 49 unfair labor practice charges before the cases were settled out of court.

Unfortunately, the problems faced by workers when they formed a union at Rite Aid are all-too-common.  Profitable and unaccountable anti-union firms, like Oliver Bell and Associates, show companies how to manipulate and flout labor laws with little or no consequences.   

The Employee Free Choice Act could make a huge difference in cases like

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