Justin Marville of Oshkosh Northwestern reports that the workers at three Keurig Dr Pepper locations voted 28-20 in favor of decertifying the union over wages, benefits, and length of contracts. Marville writes:
One group of Wisconsin employees could be looking for new representation.
Workers at three Keurig Dr Pepper locations across the state have removed union Teamsters Local 200 over various concerns surrounding wages, benefits and the length of contracts.
The nonprofit National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation broke the news after aiding drivers and warehouse workers in decertifying the union at facilities in Oshkosh, Eau Claire and Tomah.[…]
However, senior vice president of the employment policy division at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Glenn Spencer, wrote that the NLRB under the Biden administration is beginning to “thwart employees’ efforts to free themselves from union representation via decertification petitions.”
Spencer wrote the NLRB’s decision in the Rieth-Riley Construction case has empowered directors to dismiss decertification petitions solely based on administrative investigations.
He used the example of the Starbucks Workers United Union.
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