Get Online to BUST the Union-Busters

June 13, 2000 by Beeson Tayer & Bodine

The AFL-CIO’s new website www.aflcio.org/unionbuster lets you know who the Union-busters are, where they’ve done their dirty work and what tactics they’re using. Access to the website requires a user ID and password. Follow the simple instructions at the site to register.

… And Speaking of Union-Busting, Some Employers Don’t Stop with Captive Audience Speeches …

In January, the ABC News show 20/20 reported the case of South Carolina Union organizer Gary McClain, who was involuntarily committed to a mental institution following one phone call by his employer to the local sheriff. One day after McClain spoke up at a workplace meeting in favor of the Union, his employer Tenneco Packaging Co. called the local sheriff and reported that McClain was threatening workers and a danger to the workplace.

“As he drove to work, McClain found himself surrounded at gunpoint by sheriff’s deputies … [who] took him to the local hospital, where, apparently on the basis of his employer’s claims, passed on by sheriff’s deputies, an emergency room doctor involuntarily committed him to a mental hospital. McClain spent the following two weeks in confinement being forcibly injected with anti-psychotic drugs before legal intervention gained his release,” reported 20/20. The NLRB issued a Complaint in January and has scheduled a hearing. In the meantime, McClain remains without work.

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