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Workers Seeking Teamsters Representation File for Workplace Election; Unveil Plans to Put Toll Group's Management Under Microscope to Make Good on Promise for Free, Fair and Fast Vote to Recognize Their UnionLOS ANGELES, Jan. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A group of American port truck drivers engaged in a highly public organizing struggle announced unique and surprising new plans to win recognition from their antagonistic, Australian-based employer: They are officially taking the $8.3 billion Toll Group up on its challenge that if they want an employee union, they must take a vote in the workplace – a deeply flawed process that companies hostile to unionization most often bank on to bust workplace democracy.
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In a Thursday press briefing with advocates, the workers further unveiled a creative set of measures to minimize the unethical and often illegal misconduct that typically coincide with such employer campaigns to undermine a free, fair and fast pathway to union representation. Unlike the word "election" suggests in an American political context, secret balloting in U.S. workplaces most often resemble the illegitimate charades staged by authoritative regimes outside of democratic nations to retain power. Weak and easily exploitable labor laws are to blame, experts say.
"For nearly a year management has threatened our jobs for speaking out against unjust working conditions, for wanting some dignity and respect for making our company so profitable," said Luis Alay, a father with 15 years experience hauling at America's largest port complex. "Their retaliation has only made my co-workers stronger and more united. The community is with us. The people who read about us in the newspaper and on the Internet are in our corner. Our voices will be heard."
On Monday, Mr. Alay and his co-workers formally filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board to seek representation with the Teamsters, the nation's largest union of transportation workers. The federal agency that oversees labor law enforcement requires 30% of eligible workers to prove support to qualify for an election; nearly triple that number, a supermajority of 80% of Toll's 74 truck drivers based in Wilmington, Calif., submitted official signatures.
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26, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A group of American port truck drivers engaged in a highly public organizing struggle announced unique and surprising new plans to win recognition from their antagonistic, Australian-based employer: They are
Toll Group fits right in with the horrendous conditions harbor truck drivers in America have long been subjected to and are organizing to overcome," said Nick Weiner, Director of the Clean & Safe Port Campaign for the Teamsters.
Nick Weiner, from the Teamsters Union, said that: These workers are really a symbol of a much larger struggle for justice. Toll Group fits right in with the horrendous conditions harbor truck drivers in America have long been subjected to and are
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