Teamsters Union Local 773 files additional complaint against Bethlehem employer

[Omaha Steve]

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October 2009, Allentown/Bethlehem/Easton edition of The Union News

BY PAUL TUCKER
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REGION, September 2nd- The International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) Union Local 773, Hamilton Street in Allentown, filed another complaint against a Lehigh Valley employer alleging the company violated the National Labor Relations Act (NLRAct).

In April and then again in June, Local 773 filed Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) charges against Americold on Brodhead Road in Bethlehem alleging the employer violated the NLRAct during the unions’ organizing campaign it was conducting.

The newspaper has learned the union filed another ULP against the employer with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), Region Four in Philadelphia on August 19th alleging the company threatened employees with loss of jobs if they selected the Union during the NLRB Representation Election conducted by the agency at the employers facility in Bethlehem.

The workers voted 118 against unionizing to 70 for on March 31st. However, the union believed company officials violated the NLRAct during the compaign.

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