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Archive: May 2019

  • CUF Launches New Billboards in Campaign Exposing UAW Corruption

    Posted on May 28, 2019 by LaborPains.org Team

    Last week, the National Labor Relations Board dismissed the United Auto Workers’ petition requesting a vote to unionize at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, TN. Just hours after the NLRB gave its decision, the UAW filed a new petition with the board. But a new petition won’t fix the union’s bad reputation—the reality of which […]

  • SEIU Official Warns Against Reporting Cases of Union Abuse

    Posted on May 17, 2019 by LaborPains.org Team

    Earlier this year, Njoke Woods, a worker at the Service Employees International Union’s second largest local, United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW), accused the union of having a “culture of sexual misconduct, favoritism, and backroom dealing against the members.” She was ultimately fired for speaking out. Now, to add insult to injury, she is being sued […]