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Comcast Continues Assault on CWA Workers
CWA members at Comcast facilities at East Hills, in the Pittsburgh area, and in Port Huron, Mich., beat back tough decertification campaigns to keep their union, but workers at five Comcast locations in the Pittsburgh area voted to break off CWA representation.
Nearly 900 employees work at seven Pittsburgh area locations that held decertification elections. At one site, the outcome of a 57-57 tie vote with two challenged ballots will be determined after a labor board ruling on whether to count both or either of the challenged votes.
Overall, the Pittsburgh campaign featured all the markings of Comcast's anti-worker tactics and agenda, said Marge Krueger, administrative assistant to District 13 Vice President Vince Maisano. These include firing union supporters, who were reinstated with full back pay and compensation after CWA filed charges, as well as Comcast's bid to harass voters by marching 50 security guards through a tech center in Corliss.
CWA is filing unfair labor practice charges against Comcast for these and numerous other unlawful tactics, including illegally inducing workers to vote for the company by promising promotions and high pay, hiring consultants to ride in cable workers' trucks and threatening to relocate work.
Comcast's systematic strategy to use labor law against workers and to subvert the bargaining process will be spotlighted as part of the AFL-CIO's campaign for workers' rights that gets underway Dec. 10.
Nearly 900 employees work at seven Pittsburgh area locations that held decertification elections. At one site, the outcome of a 57-57 tie vote with two challenged ballots will be determined after a labor board ruling on whether to count both or either of the challenged votes.
Overall, the Pittsburgh campaign featured all the markings of Comcast's anti-worker tactics and agenda, said Marge Krueger, administrative assistant to District 13 Vice President Vince Maisano. These include firing union supporters, who were reinstated with full back pay and compensation after CWA filed charges, as well as Comcast's bid to harass voters by marching 50 security guards through a tech center in Corliss.
CWA is filing unfair labor practice charges against Comcast for these and numerous other unlawful tactics, including illegally inducing workers to vote for the company by promising promotions and high pay, hiring consultants to ride in cable workers' trucks and threatening to relocate work.
Comcast's systematic strategy to use labor law against workers and to subvert the bargaining process will be spotlighted as part of the AFL-CIO's campaign for workers' rights that gets underway Dec. 10.