Offset Paperback employee files labor complaint’s

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.midatlanticlabor.com/appiesnet/wordpress/?p=1684

BY PAUL TUCKER
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REGION, June 28th- A member of the union that represents workers at a Luzerne County employer filed several labor complaints with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Region Four office in Philadelphia alleging both her Employer and Union have violated the National Labor Relations Act (NLRAct).

The newspaper discovered the Unfair Labor Practice’s (ULP’s) while reviewing complaints and petitions filed at the NLRB office in Philadelphia.

On May 23rd, 2011, Bobbie Jo Stonier of Tunkhannock, a member of the Graphic Communications Conference/International Brotherhood of Teamsters (GCC/IBT) Union Local 137C, which represents approximately 250 workers of Offset Paperback Manufacturers in Dallas, Luzerne County, filed a complaint against Local 137C alleging the Union has retaliated against employees because she filed a charge against the Union on March 25th, 2011. Offset operates a paperback book printing facility on Route 309 in Dallas.

The ULP alleges the Union by its agents has coerced employees in the exercise of their rights under the NLRAct by:

(a) telling employees that only union officials could talk about union business;
(b) prohibiting employees from discussing union business;
(c) polling employees in the prepress department in a coercive fashion concerning their support for union officials;
(d) threatening that employees would get themselves fired for raising complaints and filing grievances concerning the Employer’s alleged ongoing practices in the Digital Print Services department.

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