News from USWA: United Steelworkers Files Unfair Labor Practice Charges Against Ormet Affiliates; NLRB Charges Allege The Company's Conduct Caused and Prolonged the Union's Five Month Long Strike.WHEELING, W.V. -- The United Steelworkers of America (USWA USWA United Steelworkers of America USWA United States Wrestling Association USWA United States Windsurfing Association USWA United States Wristwrestling Association ) today said that the Union has filed two unfair labor charges against Ormet Aluminum Mill Products Corporation and Ormet Primary Aluminum Corporation with Region 8 of the National Labor Relations Board National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), independent agency of the U.S. government created under the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (Wagner Act), and amended by the acts of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Labor Act) and 1959 (Landrum-Griffin Act), which affirmed labor's right (NLRB), located in Cleveland. Ormet's facilities are located in Hannibal, Ohio. The Union contends that Ormet violated federal labor law labor law, legislation dealing with human beings in their capacity as workers or wage earners. The Industrial Revolution, by introducing the machine and factory production, greatly expanded the class of workers dependent on wages as their source of income. by unilaterally implementing changed terms and conditions of employment conditions of employment that part of an employment that sets out the duties, responsibilities, hours of work, salary, leave and other privileges to be enjoyed by persons employed, for example a veterinary nurse, in private practice. on November 22, 2004 when the strike began; refusing to provide information about replacement workers and contractors working in the plants; engaging in unlawful videotape surveillance of picketers; and sexually harassing female picketers through the conduct of guards at the Hannibal gates. "Ormet management has been breaking the law throughout this labor dispute and hiding behind the bankruptcy court bankruptcy court n. the specialized Federal court in which bankruptcy matters under the Federal Bankruptcy Act are conducted. There are several bankruptcy courts in each state, and each one's territory covers several counties. to avoid meaningfully participating in the collective bargaining collective bargaining, in labor relations, procedure whereby an employer or employers agree to discuss the conditions of work by bargaining with representatives of the employees, usually a labor union. process with our members," said USWA District 1 Director David McCall. "Our members will not be discouraged by this illegal conduct and will not be intimidated by threats and harassment of the contractors and security guards that Ormet employs." USWA District 1 Director David McCall added that Ormet management, in addition to bargaining in bad faith with the USWA, has displayed a complete disregard for the well-being of the Ohio Valley communities near the Hannibal plants by continuing to do business with companies owned by Norman Maienknecht, a transportation contractor who was arrested for allegedly threatening several USWA members with a shotgun. About 1,200 members of USWA Locals 5724 and 5760 went on strike to protest Ormet's unfair labor practices on November 22, 2004, when the company implemented massive and unnecessary changes upon its hourly workforce. |
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