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Charlotte Workers Offered Free Legal Aid To Fight DNC Convention Discrimination

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  November 9th, 2011 at 06:00 PM  | 

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You’ve probably seen the reports from RedState’s Ben Howe on the Democratic National Committee discriminating against union-free Charlotte-area businesses on awarding 2012 Convention work, then Charlotte’s Mayor Foxx denying it, only to see the DNC award the Convention work to a Beltway union-company anyway.

You may have also heard the Ritz Carlton, Charlotte employee who was told that he (and other employees) were to be displaced during the DNC’s 2012 Convention to make room for union employees.

[Though his employer allegedly denies it, it is unclear where he and others would have gotten this impression, but through his employer (which does have unionized properties elsewhere).]

As a result of the DNC shenanigans going on to favor their union cronies, the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation is offering Charlotte-area workers free legal assistance to fight the Democrats’ discrimination for the 2012 DNC Convention.

Via the NRTW [emphasis added]:

The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, which helps victims of forced unionism, is offering free legal aid to workers who refrain from union membership and may be ordered off their jobs or prevented to work during the 2012 Democratic National Convention scheduled for August 2012 in Charlotte.

In response to media reports, the Right to Work Foundation is offering free legal assistance for nonunion Time Warner Cable Arena, surrounding venue, local hotel, and other area workers who may lose work in favor of unionized workers in the lead up to and during the convention.

Discriminating against workers who exercise their right to refrain from union membership is a clear violation of North Carolinas Right to Work law and the federal National Labor Relations Act.

Whether it’s based on race, sex, religion, creed, national origin, or union membership, discrimination is wrong.

If you are or know someone who is being discriminated against due to exercise their right not to belong to a union, check out the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation’s website.

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Cross-posted on LaborUnionReport.com.

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  • texas214

    I think one of the planks of the GOP Platform should be a national Workers Rights bill (you know how much liberals love to defend the worker) that would incorporate a natioal Right-to-Work law.

    …and just to stick a finger in the left’s eye, call it a “Jobs Bill” with a calculation of how many jobs will be “saved or created”.

  • madisonoles

    I mean why can’t the people that work there just continue to work there? Why when our country is already so far underwater I have to carry an air tank does Obama insist on this kind of political payback? Because he does not like much less love America, He does not have America’s best interest at heart. He is a slimey peice of sewage that should be flushed right now

  • florajo

    Is this a real thing or imaginary? I read the referenced articles and it’s pretty skimpy on details.

    • gekster

      Obama and his union thugs would never select the union over non-union working Americans.
      Obama and the unions don’t play that way.

    • bonnman

      The DNC is not an employer in Charlotte, they are a customer hiring companies for goods and services. If they decide to hire only union companies, that’s their prerogative as the buyer in a free market system. If Ritz Carlton furloughs employees in favor of union workers then of course that is a violation of the right-to-work laws because it is between the employer and employee. But there is a lot of flexibility there, as long as the employer doesn’t deny the employee work, meaning that Ritz Carlton could technically bring in union employees for a week and then double up the hours of the non-union employees the following week. Under the law the only damages a worker could collect would be lost wages. However, aside from the single, anonymous Ritz Carlton employee I haven’t heard any other accusations.

      • http://www.laborunionreport.com LaborUnionReport

        is the quasi-Project Labor Agreements that the DNC built into the agreement:

        The DNC

        • bonnman

          The DNC wants to use union labor as much as it can, that’s their right as the buyer and that in itself does not violate the right-to-work laws. It is however a perfect example of the free market, a big spender comes to town looking to hire only union companies, but there aren’t any so a bunch of union companies move in to fill the demand. Is it good for local non-union businesses? No, but it’s not illegal.

          • http://www.laborunionreport.com LaborUnionReport

            You are correct in that PLA’s are not unlawful. [Although PLAs are generally reserved for the construction industry and, outside of the convention work (ie., hotels that are non-union being 'retrofitted' as union hotels), this gets into a grayer area.]

            If there were to be pressure put on employees to become unionized in order to get the work, that could be easily deemed unlawful depending on the manner (note: that has not been alleged in any of the above.)

            Also, if you read the NRTW’s release, the offer is for free legal aid *if* it does occur–and, frankly, we won’t know until the Convention gets closer on how it is going to be handled (even the employee speaking acknowledged that).

            So far, the DNC has said anyone can bid, but also said they would award based on their specifications–which included collective bargaining agreements.

            Also, there are two issues at hand, the political issue and the legal issue.

  • florajo

    That connects the story together in a sensible way. Thanks.

  • lizaz

    knuckling under to the dnc mafia….we’ll remember that when choosing a hotel in the future…..