Verizon worker settles battle with Communication Workers (years of union pratice down the drain)

[Omaha Steve]

This overturns years of union practice. What do the R's say about liberal activist judges?

http://www.bizjournals.com/tampabay/stories/2009/06/01/daily42.html

Tampa Bay Business Journal - by Michael Hinman Staff writer

Thursday, June 4, 2009, 12:16pm EDT

A field technician for Verizon Communications in Tampa has settled a dispute she had with a California union that will allow her to work in that state whether or not she’s a member of a collective bargaining organization.

Angela Leitzel received compensation for lost income and a promise from the Communications Workers of America that they refrain from blocking employees from working in California based on their union membership.

“California should take a lesson from Florida: No employee should ever be forced to join or pay fees to an unwanted union,” said Stefan Gleason, vice president of the National Right to Work Foundation in a release. “The only way to eliminate collusion between ‘big business’ and ‘big labor’ to discriminate against independent-minded employees is to eliminate forced unionism altogether.”

Jim Spellane, a media director with International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in Washington, which represents communications workers in Tampa, said the “unwanted” representation Gleason spoke about “includes better pay, benefits and job security than she would have at a non-union company.”

A call to the CWA seeking comment was pending return. Bob Elek, a spokesman for Verizon (NYSE: VZ), said he was reserving comment until he could become more familiar with the case.

FULL story at link.

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1. Well that's not good

How did that happen? What was that California union thinking? Verizon just bought Alltel, there's tons of happy non-union workers that they can transfer all over the country to fight union laws.