just find it strange, is all.
Several violations of the National Labor Relations Act have led to these so-called "Drive-by Card Signers".
Let me tell you one of the reasons that I know this from an experience at my barn. We had a secret informational organizing campaign going on that had about 50% support and with more drivers coming on board each week when all of a sudden someone flipped on us and told our service center manager. Our SCM then instructed his supervisors to spy and listen in on employees in the break room and on the dock. (a violation of the NLRA)
Supervisors were reporting to the manager every time they heard the word union come out of a driver's mouth. (a violation of the NLRA) Most of the time it was not even pro-union. Drivers were discussing the union issue constantly because the company and management were bringing up the union issue on a daily basis in shift meetings, company videos, and flyers posted in the break room... even the break room employee intranet computers have screen savers that have 12 anti-union slogans constantly playing. So of course employees were constantly discussing the "UNION" because it was in their faces everyday.
.... Long story short, the supervisor's were way over reacting and reporting driver's names to the SCM just for saying the word "UNION" but most of the time they were just discussing the information they heard on a daily basis from the SCM. One of our supervisors leaked to us that a secret list of names was being created and was sent to corporate daily.
The big laugher is that half of the people that were on the secret list were anti-union drivers but the supervisors that wanted brownie points with the manager, didn't even take the time to hear the discussion they were reporting on. If they heard the word "UNION", they reported it. (a violation of the NLRA)
When drivers heard about this secret list, they became worried they could lose their jobs because they figured our SCM would just create BS write ups or if they had an accident in the near future, they would be let go. (a violation of the NLRA)
It has taken about 2 months for us to clear that up and convince people to support the union again and we are building strength daily and when the time is right, we will file. The corporate misinformation anti-union stuff is our best recruiter. Please keep it up!
This is a true story and if you think you don't need a union or a third party to protect you from a corporation that is keeping secret lists... then you're nuts!
What if they have other secret lists? Maybe secret lists of drivers that have high family medical bills that cost this self insured company a lot of money? You have to wonder how low will they stoop? What other secret lists are there?
