Workers' Freedom of Association: Obstacles to Forming a Union : Hearing Before the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, Second Session, on Workers' Freedom of Association : Obstacles to Forming a Union, June 20, 2002 |
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Page 38 - Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and to freedom of association with others, including the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.
Page 132 - ... (A) forcing or requiring any employer or self-employed person to Join any labor or employer organization or any employer or other person to cease using, selling, handling, transporting, or otherwise dealing in the products of any other producer, processor, or manufacturer, or to cease doing business with any other person...
Page 38 - Each State Party to the present Covenant undertakes to respect and to ensure to all individuals within its territory and subject to its jurisdiction the rights recognized in the present Covenant, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.
Page 42 - The only effect of our holding here is to approve the Board's use of the bargaining order in less extraordinary cases marked by less pervasive practices which nonetheless still have the tendency to undermine majority strength and impede the election processes.
Page 38 - Covenant, to adopt such legislative or other measures as may be necessary to give effect to the rights recognized in the present Covenant.
Page 126 - ... to threaten, coerce, or restrain any person engaged In commerce or In an Industry affecting commerce, where In either case an object thereof Is : • ••**** "(B) forcing or requiring any person to cease using, selling, handling, transporting, or otherwise dealing In the products of any other producer, or manufacturer, or to cease doing business with any other person...
Page 55 - The AFL-CIO likewise explains the process as follows: A coordinated corporate campaign applies pressure to many points of vulnerability to convince the company to deal fairly and equitably with the union. In such a campaign, the strategy includes workplace actions, but also extends beyond the workplace to other areas where pressure can be brought to bear on the company. It means seeking vulnerabilities in all of the company's political and economic relationships— with other unions, shareholders,...
Page 26 - Organization, to respect, to promote and to realize, in good faith and in accordance with the Constitution, the principles concerning the fundamental rights which are the subject of those conventions, namely: a. freedom of association and the effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining; b.
Page 54 - These widely varied tactics generally foil within an overall approach that has been labeled by the unions as a "corporate campaign strategy." This strategy has been described by DC Circuit Judge Patricia Wald as follows: [A] wide and indefinite range of legal and potentially illegal tactics used by unions to exert pressure on an employer. These tactics may include, but are not limited to, litigation, political appeals, requests that regulatory agencies investigate and pursue employer violations of...
Page 54 - in terms of getting on with the problems of inaugurating regimes of industrial peace, the policy of encouraging secret elections under the Act is favored."4 Indeed, even organized labor has sung the virtues of secret ballot elections when the issue has been whether or not a union should continue to represent a group of employees LPA Testimony Chart 1 : Procedural Safeguards: Election v. Card Check The following side-by-side comparison explains some of the procedural safeguards found in the NIRB election...