Updated: 07.12.2022 — Here is the charging document, now FOIA-ed. This is the same union that narrowly lost a vote in these facilities late last year. This is the same union that narrowly lost a vote in these facilities late last year.
It is hard to overstate how much the organized labor world has expanded / risen — in public esteem, and actual bargaining power, post the JFK8 win by Christian Smalls. This, however is an older line union, making the twin charges.
UPDATED End of Day, July 8 — It turns out (according to local press reports) that Kentucky (Campbellville, outside Louisville) will be host to the first outside New York union contract with Mr. Smalls’ ALU as the collective bargaining party. So that makes… three — in about 24 hours, covering multiple thousands of workers each. End of updated portion.
Here are the case numbers (all associated documents, for all charges we’ve mentioned in the past two weeks, are still in the throes of the federal FOIA process. . . so we wait):
…Case Number: 10-CA-298931
Date Filed: 07/07/2022
Status: Open
Location: Bessemer, AL
Region Assigned: Region 10, Atlanta, Georgia….Case Number: 10-CA-298933
Date Filed: 07/07/2022
Status: Open
Location: Bessemer, AL
Region Assigned: Region 10, Atlanta, Georgia….
Be excellent to one another this weekend, as we all have special birthday celebrations afoot… grin.
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