DETAILS ABOUT THE COMMUNICATIONS WORKERS OF AMERICA UNION ELECTION
20 Reasons to Vote NO!
20 Reasons Why the Employees should Vote No against the CWA Union in the NLRB secret ballot election.
1. The CWA union(union) is at our company to try to force our employees to pay dues to the union of approximately $60-$70 per month just for you to keep your job plus initiation fees.
2. If you vote YES for the union, the union will want the company to enter into a contract that has a union security clause in the contract to force you to pay dues after 30 days of work. If you do not pay your dues the union will ask the company to terminate your position.
3. The money you pay to the union in dues goes to pay the salaries of 10 of their international union officers and all the other business agents in the laborer’s union in the US. The International union agents are making from $180,000 -$335,000 according to the company union facts in Washington, DC.
4. The president, Christopher Shelton, of the International union makes over $335,000.
5. The number of members in the CWA union local 4250 in Chicago declined from in 2002 from 820 members to 125 members in 2022 according to the company union facts in Washington, DC.
6. In fact, the total union membership of the CWA in the United States in 2006 was 720,534 members which declined to 633,412 members in 2022 or approximately 10%. This is the reason they are at our company to get you to pay for their union agent’s $200,000 salaries and union expenses.
7. The reason why employees do not want to pay union dues are they do not want the union to make decisions about their workplace. The employee wants to be able to make their own decisions about their Employer.
8. Approximately 73 union officers went to jail for theft of union funds or employee dues according to the Company union facts, in wash. dc.
9. There has been at least 111 decertification’s throughout the us (union voting the union out of their company) since the employees did not want to pay union dues according to the company, union facts in Washinton, DC.
10. According to the company union facts in Washington, DC, there are at least 500 unfair labor practice charges filed against the union at the national labor relations board for failing to represent employees, bargaining in bad faith, and many other reasons.
11. According to the company, union facts in Washington DC, it takes approximately 300 new members to pay one of the international union officers’ salary per month if your dues are $60-$70 per month.
12. The CWA union pays NO strike benefits. This might happen if the union tried to force our employees on strike if the company did not agree to the union’s agreement at the end of negotiations.
13. The International union spent approximately 9.5 million of your dues to pay for political activities to the (democratic party) or for lobbying.
14. The International union spent approximately $500,000 on gifts to different entities.
15. The employees who were working with at the Company Dresser-Rand Mfg. were on strike for nearly 1461 days without getting any strike benefits, but the union agents were still getting paid their own $100,000 salary and benefits.
16. Get the union to give you a guarantee in writing that they could force our company to increase your wages or benefits at the end of negotiations.
17. The union fined their employees approximately $32,000 for violating their union bylaws.
18. Get the union to sign a guarantee that at the end of negotiations, which might be a year that wages and benefits will go up.
19. Get the union to sign a guarantee that they will get an increase in wages to cover your dues.
20. Many times during a union election, the CWA union might state you will get a contract if you just vote “Yes” for the union. Get the union to sign a guarantee that they can get you a written contract one day after the election or at any time. The union has a bargaining obligation with the Employer for a year to negotiate in good faith with the company.