Worker Asks Federal Appeals Court to Overturn Backroom Deal Between Union and Company Officials
Union organizers obtained workers’ personal information as part of a quid pro quo with the company to force employees under union control
Hollywood, FL (February 3, 2011) – With free legal assistance from the National Right to Work Foundation, a Mardi Gras Gaming employee is taking his case against local union officials and his employer to a federal appeals court.
In 2008, Unite Here Local 355 and Mardi Gras Gaming officials entered into an agreement in which union officials agreed to spend over one hundred thousand dollars in workers’ forced union dues on a gambling ballot initiative and guaranteed not to picket, boycott, or strike against the facility.
In return, Mardi Gras officials promised they would hand over employees’ personal contact information (including home addresses), grant union operatives access to company facilities for the purpose of organizing through a coercive card check campaign, and refrain from requesting a federally-supervised secret ballot election to determine whether employees actually wanted to unionize.
With the help of Foundation attorneys, Mardi Gras Gaming employee Martin Mulhall filed a lawsuit against Unite Here in 2008, arguing that the company’s concessions to the union are of substantial monetary value because the company made the union organizing process easier and less expensive.
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Minneapolis nurses
Your e-mail concerning the Minneapolis nurses who were reprimanded by their union is misleading when you say "recently." This video is 7 months old. This may be considered "recent" in the scope of history but would seem to be promoted now, in light of recent events elsewhere in the midwest states, as adding fuel to the fire.
I am definitely pro right-to-work and have no use for unions, but this is deceptive, to say the least.
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