The foremen said it was going straight there and that the company would not see it, but we weren't that stupid. These people were all against the union and hated the agitators. Foremen at our company control the work environment as well as give the recommendations for raises and bonuses. Everyone there knew that if they didn t sign the petetion they would get treated like shit, so everyone with the exception of me signed the petition to stop the election. For management to try and stop the union organizing effort was illegal, so needless to say the NLRB never saw the petition.
Talk is Cheap.
The product they try to sell is union representation. It isn't free. The message that came across in these flyers and memos that were distributed is that the union isn't straight up with us, that they're not telling us the whole truth and that they're just interested in getting our money in the form of dues and fines. At the same time the union is leaving us, the people they're claiming to want to represent, out of our own organizing drive. The company's message got through to a lot of those workers who were undecided.