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Workers' Rights Board Hearing on Brylane |
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Written by Administrator
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Tuesday, 26 February 2002 |
Community Video in Action: Channel 16 wouldn't cover it. So we did.
On February 26, 2002, Indianapolis Jobs with Justice convened the first Central Indiana Workers' Rights Board hearing. Local Brylane Distribution Center workers and a crowd of more than 100 of their supporters gathered at the Indianapolis Urban League to expose what they describe as a management campaign of fear and intimidation aimed at dissuading them from joining UNITE! (the Union of Needletrades Industrial and Textile Employees).
| UPDATE: January 29, 2003 (Indianapolis, IN): Eight hundred Brylane distribution center employees in Indianapolis won a major victory today by choosing to join UNITE [Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees] after a fifteen-month struggle to obtain a fair process of union representation. Ultimately, employees became union members through a card-check neutrality process, rather than the more easily manipulated election process the company had sought. [Full Press Release] | | | | | | | | |
Workers' Rights Board members participating in this hearing included: - Dr. Chuck Davis
Director, Division of Labor Studies, Indiana University - Sister Mary Ann Lechner
Hispanic Education Center - Reverend Bruce Patton
Christian Church Disciples of Christ Minister - Joanne Sanders
Indianapolis City-County Council - Alfred Stone
Concerned Clergy - Anna Urias Hail
Hispanic Health Project - Olga Villa Parra
Member, Damien Center Board of Directors - Robert Voorhies
President, Central Indiana Labor Council
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