Memo to Prez Candidates: Here’s Something Good You Can Do This New Year
28th December 2007
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This is a crosspost from Firedoglake.
Last year, a groupo of workers at WMUR in New Hampshire voted to join a union—Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 1228. But management didn't want to negotiate a contract with them—and there's nothing in U.S. labor law that says employers must agree to a contract. So, until this month, the workers had no contract.
Then, one after another, the Democratic presidential candidates started writing letters to WMUR-TV General Manager Jeff Bartlett urging him to go back to the bargaining table and work out an agreement.
Guess what? He <a href="http://blog.aflcio.org/2007/12/18/candidates-letters-help-new-hampshire-tv-workers-win-a