Workers Win Court Battle For Union Representation After Ten Years - 04/30/08
29th April 2008
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Loading ...A court has ordered Goya Foods to negotiate with a union that won representation of workers back in 1998. Jesse Russell reports:
The battle between UNITE and the Goya Foods factory in Miami has waged since 1998 when the union UNITE, which has since merged with another union to form UNITE-HERE, won the right to represent workers. Over the next decade Goya incurred multiple charges of unfair labor practice and even fired workers as it sought to break the union’s attempt to represent the workers. In 1999 the company stopped negotiation with the union and it wasn’t until August of 2006, after a great deal of back and forth between the National Labor Relations Board and Goya, that the board finally ruled that the company had unlawfully “withdrawn union recognition” and ordered Goya to resume collective bargaining. Goya appealed and in a court decision on April 24 it was recognized that the National Labor Relations Board taking a decade to determine a ruling “is of considerable concern.” In a statement, UNITE-HERE President Bruce Raynor said 10 years is “far too long to wait when bills need to be paid and meals need to be put on tables.”