Yet 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

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Until recently, thousands of people in the Richmond, VA area worked for Qimonda USA making memory chips for computers. In October of 2008, Qimonda started to lay off workers. Three months later Qimonda filed for bankruptcy and hundreds more workers were laid-off.

Today, only 46 people work for a company that once employed thousands.

When Qimonda filed for bankruptcy, most of the workers did not receive severance pay, pay for accrued time off, or other money they were owed.  In fact, many workers did not even get paid for their last two weeks of work – their paychecks bounced. 

During bankruptcy proceedings, instead of standing up for the hundreds of laid-off workers, the company asked for and received incentive bonuses of up to $1.24 million for the 46 remaining employees!

Watch this video to see their story.

These workers are fighting to get the pay they are owed, and Richmond Jobs

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