Kennedy, Kerry Back Rights for Enterprise Workers

Massachusetts' senators are standing with Enterprise Rent-A-Car workers at a Boston airport location who learned their jobs are being contracted out – an announcement made just after they signed cards to organize through IUE-CWA Local 201. 

"It's an outrage that workers who try to form a union can be faced with mass firing," Sens. Ted Kennedy and John Kerry said in a letter this week to the workers. "You have the right to ask Enterprise to recognize your union, and to be treated with dignity and respect in the workplace."

In early June, with cards signed by 23 of the 30 car-prep workers and drivers, the union filed for an NLRB election. A week later, Enterprise told the workers their jobs were being subcontracted to a Houston staffing company. If the workers still wanted jobs with Enterprise, they were told they'd have to apply at other company locations.

"Last month, we fought in the Senate for the Employee Free Choice Act to allow workers like you to use majority sign-up to choose a union," the senators said. " Every worker in America deserves the right to join a union, free from employer retaliation. We're with you in this battle."