Biden Labor Board Invalidates Workers’ Vote to Reject Union
Workers forced to remain in union allied to DemsGraham Piro • April 22, 2021 5:05 pm
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President Joe Biden's labor arbiter threw out hundreds of votes from workers attempting to cut ties with a Delaware union.
The National Labor Relations Board overruled hundreds of Delaware poultry workers who had voted to reject union leadership. The agency said in a 3-1 ruling released Wednesday that a provision prohibiting workers from leaving a union for a set time period after a contract is signed allowed the board to ignore the workers' March 2020 vote. The decision reversed a regional NLRB director who had initially ruled in the workers' favor.
Oscar Cruz Sosa, the employee who led the charge to hold the election, ripped union leadership for disregarding the voices of workers. "The union has been harassing and intimidating us for a long time and it’s unbelievable that they’re going to get their way by having 800 ballots destroyed," Cruz Sosa told the Washington Free Beacon.
"We are very mad that the American labor law system let us down and is forcing us to pay dues and be in a union we don’t want," Cruz Sosa said. "While politicians scream about ‘counting every vote’ and making it easier to vote, they just ordered our 800 votes to be destroyed and never counted."
The decision marks a victory for the local chapter of the United Food and Commercial Workers union, the nation's largest private sector union and a major backer of Democratic candidates. The union's PAC spent more than $1.2 million in 2020 electing Democratic candidates.
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