Daycare Company Fires More Pro-Union Employees

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/9563/

8-26-10, 2:20 pm

A for-profit daycare continued its war against pro-union workers this week as it fired two more employees. So far, according to union sources, the company has fired 10 employees since an Aug. 2 vote in favor of certifying a union at daycare facilities owned by Preschool of America.

The Aug. 2 vote was certified by the National Labor Relations Board, the federal agency that oversees union elections. Federal labor law prohibits firing, harassing or threatening workers who vote for or are engaged in union activities.


(Photo courtesy of AFSME DC 1707)

The action by the company angered many parents who send their children to the daycare. According to a union statement, 56 parents or guardians of the Upper West Side location at 101 West End Avenue have signed a petition calling on management to “cease and desist reprimanding, harassing and terminating” employees who seek union representation.

Still the firing continued. The latest employees fired were two popular Head Teachers, Diana DeLeon, at the Lexington Avenue location and Wendy Puello from the Upper West Side location. According to a union spokesperson, Puello had testified at a hearing of the NLRB Region 2 in Manhattan for the right to vote for the union as a Head Teacher.

The NLRB rejected the company's claim that Head Teachers were supervisors and could not vote. Puello was fired after her public statements to the NLRB in favor of the union.

DeLeon gave an interview to the New York Daily News describing how the company had fired pro-union employees. DeLeon herself was subsequently let go after the article was published on Sunday, August 22.


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[nosmokes]

1. This should get folks indicted at least.

It won't (even under a Dem admin) but it damn well should.