RALEIGH, NC (WNCN) – A possible railroad workers’ strike is already having an impact here in North Carolina. Amtrak will suspend all long-haul routes beginning Thursday due to the upcoming strike; Four of these routes have stops in North Carolina.
Amtrak workers would not go on strike. Transport workers could go on strike if no agreement is reached between the workers and the transport companies by the end of the week. Freight companies own and operate many of the tracks used by Amtrak.
Is North Carolina a right-to-work state?
Yes, what most people don’t know is that the “right to work” has something to do with unions and how non-union workers are treated. The North Carolina Right to Work Act (NC GS 95-78) severely limits the power of unions in the state by making certain agreements illegal.
The law says: “The right to life includes the right to work. The right to work may not be denied or restricted because of membership or non-membership of a trade union or organization.
Reasons for the May 1st strike
- Protest against wage increases at work
- Protest against workers’ preferential treatment
- ) Protest against unsafe working conditions
- Protest against sexual harassment at work
- Protest against wage theft
- Protest against working hours of unfair work
- Protest against racism at work
- In protest of lack of opportunities for further education
- In protest of lack of advancement and advancement opportunities
- In protest of mistreatment and disrespect by management
- For protest threats, ICE against you or Calling your employees
- ANY OTHER PROBLEMS YOU HAVE IN ITS SHOP
Union Fu Steelworkers unionists attempted to use a “contract freeze” to lock up workers in the union who oppose them, using workers with union contracts that have been twice rejected
Franklin, PA (29 , 2022) – Franklin , PA (29. November 2022) – With free legal aid from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, Kerry Hunsberger and her associates at Latrobe Specialty Metals Company won a victory in their effort to elect United Steelworkers (USW) union officials from their facilities. Hunsberger and her staff are questioning USW officials’ secret “ratification” of a union contract that workers had twice overwhelmingly rejected, and the claim by union officials that the contract was intended to bar employees from exercising their right to expulsion exercise from the union.
A decision by the regional director of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in Pittsburgh now mandates that a union “decertification election” be held between Hunsberger and his colleagues on December 6th. In August, Hunsberger filed a petition with the NLRB, supported by many of his peers, to prompt such a vote, but USW union leaders hesitated, arguing that non-statutory NLRB policy, called the “contract ban,” the vote should block workers’ rights because there was a contract.