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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Monday, February 07, 2005 ::
Employer on Good Footing with Smoking Ban, Experts Say SafetyNext
But one union organizer told another Michigan newspaper, the Lansing State Journal, that worker shock and anger over the Weyco policy will be a shot in the arm for the labor movement.
'The first thing I thought when I heard about it was this is going to help me,' said the organizer, John Cakmakci, executive director of the United Food and Commercial Workers union Local 951.
He noted that union contracts typically limit an employer's power to fire at will.
'If you weren't thinking about a union before, you are now,' Cakmakci said. 'This really shows the vast power companies have under at-will laws.'------------------------------------------- posted 12:31 PM :: reference link ::
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