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Originally Posted by Locke
Okay, I'll admit to not being 100% up to speed on the details going on here, but it appears that people wandering onto a worksite and BSing the workers there that they owe some fabricated amount of $250 for some nebulous reason and then offering them a discount in order to get their signatures to establish a Union without any real informed consent...
Thats all cool?
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This is my guess of what probably happened based on the information provided in the article. It states the employee was a former member of that union. Union bylaws vary from local to local but generally once a union member terminates their employment they have to sign a withdrawal card to suspend their membership and dues payments. If you don’t sign a withdrawal card and wish to work at another company the union represents you will need to choose to either pay the initiation fee again or pay any union dues that are in arrears. Most choose to repay the initiation fee unless there are other factors that could be impacted by a break in service(pension, seniority etc).
I don’t know what exactly was said, and as I’ve already stated if it is proven that there was coercion then I hope the perpetrator(s) are held accountable. With that being said though the information presented in the article doesn’t really provide enough evidence for me to conclude whether this was coercion or a miscommunication of the re-initiation process due to a language barrier.