RWDSU officials are also trying to undo the voice of Amazon workers in Alabama against union formation and were recently successfully ousted by NYC car wash workers
Atlanta, GA (December 10, 2021) – National Right to Work Foundation President Mark Mix today criticized Southeast Council (RWDSU) trade union officials in retail, wholesale and department stores for attempting to suppress the secret ballot by Ecolab employees in McDonough, GA, to RWDSU to remove from their workplace:
“RWDSU officials this year in Alabama and elsewhere across the country have shown a penchant for defying the will of the same staff who are said to ‘represent’ them. Now they are using questionable indictments against Ecolab’s management to prevent employees from unambiguously voting against them.
“No American worker should be caught under the control of a union that he opposes. The Foundation’s lawyers will continue to assist Ecolab employees until their right to forego unwanted union officials is justified. “
Ecolab employee Irvin Arnold leads efforts to kick RWDSU bosses out. In late October, with free legal assistance from the Foundation, he filed a petition that was signed by enough of his peers to get the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to hold a decertification vote among its peers.
The efforts of Arnold and his staff mark the second time Foundation attorneys have assisted workers remove unwanted RWDSU officials in the past month alone. In October, Ervin Par, of Main Street Car Wash of Queens, NY, filed the second valid decertification petition on his and his associates who tried for three years to remove RWDSU executives from their jobs. Rather than face a staff vote that would likely have ended in the RWDSU’s defeat, its agents declined interest in continuing their control of the car wash in early November.
The NLRB, the federal agency responsible for enforcing federal labor law in the private sector and resolving disputes between employers, unions and individual workers, has an annex on the 2nd. In particular, the RWDSU is the same union that Bessemer, AL, Amazon employees rejected more than 2 to 1 in a high-profile union election in April 2021.
According to Arnold’s original petition, the polls were among more than 50 Ecolab employees who were under the monopoly control of RWDSU officials, including “Reliability Engineers … Maintenance Managers, Production Operators, Mixers, Bulk Observers / Loaders, Logistics Operators, Production Team Coaches, Warehouse Managers and employees for the label inspection. “
RWDSU officials are now trying to overturn the employee vote by claiming Ecolab officials interfered in employee efforts to get rid of union bosses. Filing these objections allows the union to maintain control in the workplace until the NLRB investigates the union’s claims.
Ecolab and Main Street Car Wash decertification attempts come as RWDSU officials continue efforts to install Amazon despite overwhelming disagreement from employees at the Bessemer, AL, plant. The legal battle over whether RWDSU lawyers can void the vote of Amazon workers, with barely 12% of the electorate showing their support for the monopoly “representation” of union bosses, continues.
The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation is a non-profit, charitable organization that provides free legal assistance to employees whose human or civil rights have been violated by forced union violations. The foundation, which can be reached toll-free at 1-800-336-3600, supports thousands of employees in around 250 cases nationwide each year.
