President Oxtoby has pledged there will be no intimidation of employees involved in the unionization effort and that the College will agree to a quick NLRB election. Why won the workers engage to an NRLB election with these conditions?
These assurances don’t address the problem. WfJ has asked the Administration to refrain from the type of aggressive and undemocratic anti-union campaigns that have become common during NLRB elections. So far, the administration has refused. Instead, administration representatives have said and done several things that indicate they may be planning an aggressive anti-union campaign just prior to an NLRB election. In March, President Oxtoby questioned whether a union is necessary and asserted his right to tell workers about the “disadvantages of unionization.”(Oxtoby, letters, 3 March, 5 March, 12 March, 25 March). In front of workers, managers removed union fliers from bulletin boards where fliers about many other issues and events are normally posted—an act WfJ believes is illegal. During the September 20th meeting between WfJ and the administration, the College’s lawyer stated that managers should be able to say, “whatever they want” to employees before the union vote. For these and o
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