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Think Twice Before Shopping At Berkeley Bowl: Glen Yasuda Uses Union Busters To Crush Vote
With a last minute anti-union drive, Glen Yasuda and notorious union buster Jackson and Lewis managed to destroy Berkeley's hopes of having a locally owned unionized grocery store.
Berkeley Bowl employees today voted 119 to 70 against unionization. While 127 employees had earlier signed cards saying they would be interested in unionizing, a last minute anti-union campaign full of disinformation by managers seems to have resulted in the change.
Berkeley residents may want to think twice about frequenting a business that preferred to fire union organizers and spend thousands on one of the nations worst union busting law firms (Jackson and Lewis) rather than provide benefits and deal with worker complaints.
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Jackson Lewis: They (Literally) Wrote the Book On Union Busting
Jackson, Lewis, Schnitzler & Krupman, founded in 1958 and headquartered on Park Avenue in New York, is a national "labor and employment law firm" which represents management exclusively. With 20 offices in 11 states, more than 300 lawyers and annual revenues of nearly $40 million, they are formidable indeed.
One of the first outfits to refine the techniques of "coaching" management on preventing unionization, Jackson Lewis is also one of the few bold enough to write a book on the subject. But don't look for "Winning NLRB Elections: Avoiding Unionization Through Preventative Employee Relations Programs" on the shelves at Barnes & Noble. Jackson Lewis won't even sell the book, now in its fourth edition, to individuals, let alone to unions.
The 253-page volume, billed on its back cover as "the best and most comprehensive publications on how to establish and maintain a union-free workplace," actually doesn't reveal more than the broad outlines of what a capable consultant's "bag of tricks" contains. Still, it illustrates much of the basic posture union busters recommend when confronting unions.
http://www.corporatecampaign.org/bust1.htm
Berkeley residents may want to think twice about frequenting a business that preferred to fire union organizers and spend thousands on one of the nations worst union busting law firms (Jackson and Lewis) rather than provide benefits and deal with worker complaints.
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Jackson Lewis: They (Literally) Wrote the Book On Union Busting
Jackson, Lewis, Schnitzler & Krupman, founded in 1958 and headquartered on Park Avenue in New York, is a national "labor and employment law firm" which represents management exclusively. With 20 offices in 11 states, more than 300 lawyers and annual revenues of nearly $40 million, they are formidable indeed.
One of the first outfits to refine the techniques of "coaching" management on preventing unionization, Jackson Lewis is also one of the few bold enough to write a book on the subject. But don't look for "Winning NLRB Elections: Avoiding Unionization Through Preventative Employee Relations Programs" on the shelves at Barnes & Noble. Jackson Lewis won't even sell the book, now in its fourth edition, to individuals, let alone to unions.
The 253-page volume, billed on its back cover as "the best and most comprehensive publications on how to establish and maintain a union-free workplace," actually doesn't reveal more than the broad outlines of what a capable consultant's "bag of tricks" contains. Still, it illustrates much of the basic posture union busters recommend when confronting unions.
http://www.corporatecampaign.org/bust1.htm
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The Average Joe Supports the One Big Union
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