Opinion ID: 197145
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: The Second Flier.

Text: literature, disseminated by Winship a few days before the election, urges the reader to vote against unionization and warns that union membership will bring significant financial burdens. This flier contains a simulated invoice inscribed on what purports to be IAM's letterhead (and which bears the IAM service mark). Under a heading that reads PAYABLE TO THE MACHINISTS UNION BY [employee's name], the invoice lists amounts designated as union dues, an initiation fee, and fines.3 Commentary, undiluted by subtlety, accompanies this listing: NO MATTER WHAT THE UNION HAS TOLD YOU JUST ASK THE EMPLOYEES AT LOURDES HOSPITAL AND JUST ASK THE 13 EMPLOYEES AT GENERAL ELECTRIC IN SOUTH PORTLAND WHO WERE FINED FOR CROSSING THE PICKET LINE THERE. Large, bold letters at the bottom of the invoice proclaim: WITHOUT THE MACHINISTS UNION, DO NOT PAY THIS BILL. 3The stated amounts are not only apocryphal but also extravagant. During the organizing drive, IAM repeatedly declared that there would be no initiation fee and that no worker's monthly dues would exceed $20. 4 Notwithstanding Winship's tactics or, perhaps, due to them the employees chose IAM as their collective bargaining representative in the August 4 election.