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Union given the boot by Mayo employees in Fairmont
To the Editor:
Two months ago, on Jan. 3, 2022, in the National Labor
Relations Board (NLRB) Case Number 18-RD-288362,
a petition to push the Teamsters Local 120 union out of
Mayo hospital in Fairmont was officially received. This
petition was circulated by Mayo employees. Results of
that petition were certified two months later on March 7.
After forty years of union protection Mayo employees no
longer had union help and power. The workers are now
alone. A worker alone is a worker without any power.
Interestingly, on the NLRB web page, the "petitioner"
listed on the Mayo Clinic Health System of Fairmont
NLRB case was the well-known anti-union organization:
the National Right to Work Legal Foundation. Why would
a nationally known anti-union organization come to Fairmont?
The answer? To, (as it turns out successfully) influence
and guide Mayo employees to leave Teamsters. Who
invited this organization to Fairmont?
In the United States, unions are under intense pressure
from corporations and dark money funded anti-union organizations
to fall off the face of the earth. In the 1950s
union membership was at its highest in the United States,
around 35 million workers. Today, membership is down
to 10 million. If individuals would take a moment, they
would see that they are lucky if given the chance to belong
to a union. With a union, you have someone behind you.
Unions have helped workers for decades, through hard
fought fights, for shorter hours, better safety, vacation
time, better wages and much, much more. Support worker's
rights and union power.
Peter G. Engstrom