Union Busting?
Below is an email I intercepted from the local anti-war group (who’s stance against war is more often than not that the wrong people are being killed not that no killing should take place). We have a Hilton coming in, and when they decided to do construction they choose not to go union. The horror!
Of course there are protests against the “union busting”. Now union busting is smashing attempts of employees to join unions. As far as I know there was no attempt by the construction workers to form a union, Hilton simply choose a firm that wasn’t part of the union.
What this protest is, is the “monopolistic” attempt to demand all jobs in various industries have to go to union-approved firms. It’s bad enough that they try to foist unions on people who don’t want them, but now they also insist that all jobs in a certain industry have to go to the union or they are behaving unethically.
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 10:44:13 -0800 (PST)
From: XXXX
Subject: [Peace] Solidarity picket at NOON Friday
To: AWARE peace
Message-ID:
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Just a reminder about the SOLIDARITY picket in support
of the Building
Trades this Friday ( 2/10/06 ) at NOON on Kirby Ave.
between Neil st.
and
State st.
Let the mega-corporate Hilton hotel chain know that
the
Urbana-Champaign
community WILL NOT TOLERATE Union busting in OUR city.
See you there, and dress warm.
In Solidarity
XXXX
—– Original Message —–
From: XXXXX
…
Subject: Solidarity picket this Friday at noon!
> **Please Forward**
>
> Union-busting,
> It’s disgusting!
>
> You are cordially invited to join the local Jobs
With
> Justice Organizing Committee in a show of support
for
> the efforts of Building and Construction Trades
Unions
> in town this Friday February 10 at noon.
>
> We’ll meet outside the work site on Kirby between
Neil
> and State St., where Tatman is building a new hotel
> and renovating an old one - one of the largest
> non-union projects in town in years. Signs will be
> there. Dress warm. Look for the big rat.
>
> p.s. The nearby Walgreens construction site is NOT a
> target of this picket. This construction is being
> done union, respecting wages, benefits, working
> conditions, etc.
