Cablevision Worker Testifies on the Future of Union Organizing

[Omaha Steve]

http://nhlabornews.com/2013/09/cablevision-worker-testifies-on-the-future-of-union-organizing/

By NH Labor News | September 19, 2013



WASHINGTON, DC – Today Cablevision technician Clarence Adams is testifying before the House Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions on the future of union organizing.

Adams, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran who served in the Iraq War, has worked as a Cablevision field technician in Brooklyn for more than 14 years. Ever since he and his coworkers voted to join the Communications Workers of America (CWA) last year, management has refused to bargain with workers in good faith. In addition to intimidating and threating employees, Cablevision even illegally fired 22 workers for simply attempting to use the company’s “open door” policy to discuss the stalled contract negotiations.

“Ten years ago, I put my life on the line 6,000 miles away from home in the name of protecting the basic rights of American democracy,” Adams says in his testimony. “I believed I was fighting so that the rights of every American would be protected. I never thought that I would see the day that I, as an American citizen, would have my basic rights trampled on and no one would do anything about it. I never thought that a big corporation could violate my rights and the government would let them get away with it.”

Cablevision is facing several unfair practice charges at a National Labor Relations Board hearing in New York City this week.

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