Bad Start Already

[dtechpaducah]

Is this how they are going to start representing us, by providing false information to the masses. Here is the link to the message I am referencing as well so others may see I am not just pulling this out of thin air. www.cwalocal6320.com/directech/index.asp

(ie......CWA - DirecTECH Home

Attention DirecTECH Southwest Employees
CLICK HERE to submit a bargaining demand.

Direct Tech Workers Vote for Union
Friday, June 02, 2006
Sixty-four employees of Direct Tech Southwest in Paducah voted Thursday to join St. Louis-based Communications Workers of America Local 6320.

Contract talks will begin soon, according to a CWA news release.

Workers for Direct Tech, at 857 N. H.C. Mathis Drive, do installation and repair for DirecTV in Kentucky, Illinois and southwest Missouri. The new bargaining unit consists of installers, customer service representatives and the warehouse employees.

CWA officials said they were contacted by Direct Tech employees in Missouri who were concerned about working conditions, wages and benefits. Employees in Kentucky and Illinois shared the concerns, they said.

The workers received help from the union in filing an election petition with the National Labor Relations Board, CWA)

I clearly don't remember a landslide vote. Don't get me wrong it is what the majority voted for and I will go with that for now, but to make a public statement that all eligible voters voted for the union is just outright lying, trying to make themselves look good. Should that be what we want out of the union, why couldn't they post the actual numbers? These are just questions I am curious about.

[jlasr77]

THIS IS TECH 1642, JEFFERY ADAMS,

THE EMPLYEES NEED TO INPUT THINGS THEY WOULD LIKE TO SEE IMPROVE, THEY NEED TO TALK TO CREWS STEWARDS, AND EVEN THE SHOP STEWARD LEWIS HANKINS. ANYONE CAN HIDE BEHIND AN UNKNOW NAME ON A MESSAGE BOARD. EVERY ONE NEEDS TO SHOW SUPPORT, BY IMPUTING THERE WANTED CHANGES, BY STEPPING FORWARD AND JOINING THE NEGOTIATING COMMITTEE,
TALKING TO THE STEWARDS. SITTING ON YOUR BEHIND, GETSA U NOTHING BUT SORES. CALL ME, OR YOUR STEWARD OR LEWIS SEE WHAT U CAN DO

[trey]

If it makes you feel any better, the count was posted on the CWA national website. Something tells me the national website gets more hits than the locals (no offence 6320).

www.cwa-union.org/news/page.jsp?itemID=27698989

I didnt take the article you posted as saying it was a landslide vote. The group voted as 1 unit. As 1 unit the workers voted "yes" for CWA representation.

No different than when a zoneing board or city council votes on a topic. When the outcome is announced, it usually just declares what the outcome of the vote was.

[Kevin Kujawa]

Dear anonymous, and I will call you that because you chose not to register under your name, for what I assume are your own reasons. There is nothing in this press release that is inaccurate. The facts of the matter are 64 employees were eligible to vote in the representation election. No press release ever stated that the margin of pro-union votes equated to a landslide, those are your words. The fact of the matter is the decision to form a union or not was a hard fought debate among the employees at DirecTECH Southwest Paducah and in the end 64.8% of those who voted, voted to form a union. We are indeed proud to have this unit in Local 6320 and in my travels during this organizing drive throughout Kentucky, Missouri and Illinois, I had the privilege to meet with a large number of these techs and CSR's. Regardless of how you voted, the election is over, you are now eligible to become a member of this Local and participate in the collective bargaining process. In the next few days you will be approached by one of your stewards to sign a membership card. This will be an important decision for you. You can become a member and engage in the process of collective action, support yourself and your co-workers as we strive to reach a first contract. Or you can sit on the sidelines and let your co-workers do the heavy lifting and continue to throw rocks at the cause. The facts are representation is well underway at DirecTECH Southwest, as you probably know by now there has been a stewards network announced and we are in the process of gathering bargaining demands. There is a lot of hard work to be done and the best way for it to get done is for everybody to pitch in and help. I certainly hope you make the right decision and stand together with your friends and co-workers. By the way the count on the vote was 35 for the union 19 against

[mackie]

I don't really know the proper etiquette for this board. I've only posted a couple of times and it's been a very long time ago so forgive me if I'm missing how things work here. But as far as registering with your name: in my case, I'm a management IT employee that was considering unionization to protect our jobs from going overseas and registering my name on this site would probably land me on the street. I've since abandoned the idea simply because it's a mountain I don't think I have the ability to climb and quite frankly I think most of the sheep I work with wouldn't have the courage to do it either.

It does amaze me that we seem to have no problem watching our jobs go to India though.