"EVERY SINGLE WORKER SIGNED A PETITION SAYING THEY WANT THE CARPENTERS OUT"
HEY ACTING DIRECTOR PAUL HITTERMAN
CROWN POINT CARPENTERS FIGHT AGAINST UNION HEADS TO NLRB
Some workers at Neises Construction Corp. in Crown Point are taking their effort to leave the Indiana/Kentucky/Ohio Regional Council of Carpenters union to the National Labor Relations Board in Washington.
The move is being made after the Region 13 board rejected their decertification petition last month.
According to the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, which is defending the workers, Neises employee Mike Halkias submitted a decertification petition to the region board in January that was signed by every member of his unit, all of whom are full-time or part-time wall and footer carpenters.
Patrick Semmens, vice president of the foundation, said about eight or nine employees are involved.
“What’s unusual here is that every single worker signed a petition saying they want the Carpenters union out. They cut off paying dues, but they’re still under union representation they oppose,” said Semmens, who also pointed out that Indiana is a right to work state.
A spokesman for the foundation said Halkias could not be reached for comment. Neises Construction did not return a call for comment.
A spokesman for the Carpenters union in Merrillville did not respond to several calls for comment, and Randy Palmateer, business manager for the Northwestern Indiana Building & Construction Trades Council, said he couldn’t comment on pending litigation.
However, in his ruling on Feb. 17, Paul Hitterman, acting regional director of NLRB Region 13 in Chicago, wrote that he rejected the petition based on his finding that Neises violated the law by failing and refusing to bargain in good faith with the union since the union was certified as the workers’ bargaining agent in October 2017.
“The board presumes that when an employer unlawfully fails or refuses to reorganize and bargain with an incumbent union, any employee dissatisfaction with the union results from the earlier unlawful conduct,” Hitterman wrote.
He said the employer must show that employee dissatisfaction with the union came after the employer and union had resumed bargaining for a reasonable amount of time and without additional unfair labor practices.
The foundation countered, however, that under federal law it is illegal for an employer to engage in monopoly bargaining with a union that it knows lacks the support of at least a bare majority of workers.
“The NLRB Regional official’s order dismissing the employees’ petition did not even address that every employee in Mr. Halkias’ bargaining unit has demonstrated a desire to be independent from the union by resigning union membership and asking for a decertification vote,” the foundation said.
Hitterman said the workers could appeal his decision at the national NLRB level in Washington.
Karen Caffarini is a freelance reporter for the Post-Tribune.
HEY DOUGY AND YOUR NLRB FOR SALE TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER UNION SELL OUTS. THESE BOYS GOT LAWYERS.I BET THIS CASE DOES NOT TAKE TWO YEARS
QUICK DOUGY YOU SACK OF SHYTE.TELL US ALL HOW THESE CARPENTERS ARE DERANGED LONERS AND COMMIES
"In the next breath, he dismisses critics within the carpenters as
fearful, selfish bureaucrats or deranged loners or communists. “God
bless them,” he says at one point. “They are very hateful people.”
NOW I AM SURE THE BIDEN APPOINTED NLRB UNION SUCK ASS WILL REJECT THEIR APPEAL BUT LETS HOPE THE LAWYERS STAY THE COURSE AND SEE WHAT A FEDERAL COURT HAS TO SAY.
LET'S STOP THIS BS ONCE AND FOR ALL. LETS HANG OUT THE NLRB DIRTY LAUNDRY IN FEDERAL COURT.LETS SEE HOW MANY UNION LAWYERS ARE EX NLRB EMPLOYEES? LETS EXAMINE THE NLRB BIAS AGAINST WORKERS IN FAVOR OF THE UNION CRIMINAL SYNDICATES IN A FEDERAL COURT.
LETS EXAMINE BEFORE A FEDERAL JUDGE WHY IT TOOK TWO YEARS FOR THE NLRB TO END THE UBC MUPS EXTORTION
HEY RIGHT TO WORK FOUNDATION DO NOT FORGET OUR FAVORITE VIDEO AND UBC CASE.
LIGHTS OUT MCCARRON
HAVE A LOOK HOW BRIAN "BABY" QUINN,ANOTHER LYING SACK OF SHYTE, LOST THE BC CARPENTERS
I REALLY ENJOY AT 4:06 OF THE VIDEO WHERE DIRTY DOUG LOOKS LIKE HE IS ABOUT TO SHYTE HIS PANTS.HEY ICE CREAM CRAPPER WHERE ARE YOUR PAID THUGS??
28 comments:
real shocker union carpenters don't want Dougs representation.
hey feds any day you can break our leadership up and stop the corruption the membership will be grateful don't stop at International level all executive secretary are their puppets they run nothing they just enforce the unions corruption. Sproules is actually involved in making are pensions fail in order to merge them to take advantage of getting to the money
Sproules is a loser his day is coming
subponea. retirement trustees tom breslyn and mike hand sure they have all the meeting minutes on the big plan !!!!!!
Those two clowns selling out is nothing new. They were always all about themselves. A couple of chameleons.
ya, fat ass Sproules needs to go ASAP.
It will never happen they need a fall guy dummy
Since there is no work. Very little work.
It is now easy under a Sproules leadership to bid store fronts in the city.
No one cares. If they do check you just tell em... Umm no. We arent union... Its that easy.
Most of these council reps do not even know their own members.
Joke.
Sproules. Hand. Hocker. You built this.
Reps aren’t make rounds now instead of hiding in there suv sleeping they can just stay home. I can see how those with a lawsuit feel slighted just like when laughenberg was building a gym at the funds office to lure new tenants 😂
Plenty of work they just aren’t giving it to you
I never relied on anyone from the hall to " give" me work.
That wasnt my question.
My question is where is all the work.
We do not have enough to feed this council.
Work should pick up this summer when all the projects tabled due to CoVid restart. But you’ll have to compete with all the out of town UBC sanctioned scabs.
And they all back up what they are told to.believe it even the innocent ones crying how they got done wrong
Maybe you should ask Spencer and Ballantyne why they took your charter or Coryell jr
Plenty of Philly outfits working in NJ
Bet Coryell not only was paid to go away and they kept his loser do nothing son what a deal
I would take Jr. over any of the other slug Reps now in place any day of the week!!
I concur!!!!
new jersey leadership counts on pla. only. paying off politically. philly never had to do that. we hit the streets and fought for what is ours way to go doug. how are things going now that sprolles took over in 5 plus years we went from 90 percent market share to 70. but keep golfing fatty dont worry about our future. doug you are an idiot for letting frank do this to a once thriving council the good times are behind us boys !!!
sprolles you a moron !!!! we know you dont run nothing ray bulgarius tells you when yoiu when you can fart you pussy !!
This is drivel from a person who " heard " a story Eddie was " bad" .
You probably werent used to an agent calling you back within 20 minutes ... Definitely by the end of the day... Even sometimes at 9pm at night when he often left the " office" bc he found 10 / 20 jobs to send his men to.
Sure eddie had flaws. We all do. As biz agent of local 8.. His men came first. Even the guys who needed GPS to find a meeting.
Im not " kissing" any ones ass.
Eddie did his job. He kept the city under tight control.
We had market share. Issues were addressed and usually in favor of the member and protected stewards. All you jerk offs who finally got what you want... Did you?
Jr works in Edison call him
Your numbers was exactly what Bobby Satriano would drool about and your financials at our 253 meetings. He’s gone now and so is john from what I understand you all were in jam due to the auto show mishap. True or false it allowed the international to come and take it all. Think of the relationships coryell had with so many politicians same for john.
They can do whatever they want and throw our money at them to keep them quiet.
Good luck on keeping your double pension
You are soooo uninformed on the CC.
Id explain it to you.
Having been part of the process.
Throwing pearls before swine.
My pension is fine.
Did ya get your teeth cleaned yet? Eyes checked?
Maybe he can share some of the money he shookdown from some contractors
Disolving the MRC was a financial necessity for Frank and Co. Nothing else mattered.
Billy doesn’t fart he queefs
Let’s go tommy doc. Sprolles says we owe fines start sending the letters. We can’t wait to forward the letters on to the responsible. Carpenter to show the nlrb how you are going to violate the agreement.
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