Florida Workers Confront Union-Busters

[billyoc]

Jacksonville, Fla. — 200 workers gathered May 17 at the IBEW local 177 union Hall to pick up signs supporting the Employee Free Choice Act, form ranks, and march to the Hyatt Regency Riverfront Hotel. The occasion was the Spring 2009 National Conference of the infamous union-busting outfit Committee for a Union-Free Environment, AKA: CUE, inc.

Russell Harper, an electrical worker and President of the North Florida Central Labor Council, explained that this Hotel was built by union construction workers, wired by union electricians and that the plumbing was installed by union plumbers. Many unions were represented from across north Florida and southern Georgia. Among them: IBEW, ILA, Boiler Makers, Carpenters, Plumbers, Teachers, IWW, Autoworkers, Machinists and others.

But this weekend the Hyatt was a den of thieves.

Inside, in air-conditioned comfort, CUE, inc - a weapon in the hands of the capitalist class in what is known hereabouts as the ‘ war on the workers’- analyzed, plotted and schemed. The employers have their own take on the idea of freedom: they cherish the idea of a ‘union-free environment’, but this is not the kind of ‘environmentalism’ most Floridians have in mind.

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http://www.pww.org/article/view/15708/