Tudor's
The complaint also alleges that Elkview Tudor's managers repeatedly told employees involved in the union effort they could lose their jobs or see their pay docked if they formed a union. One supervisor is accused of saying anti-union employees could give the pro-union employees “as much hell” as they wanted.
Tudor's
The complaint against Tudor's franchise in
Denholm told the AP on Monday that an investigation of the charges at his regional office found “probable cause” to believe Tudor’s violated federal law. The case will now go to trial before an administrative law judge in
Relatively unknown outside the region, Tudor’s
Elkview Tudor's employees announced their intention to form a union after they said the company failed to alert them when a worker tested positive for COVID-19, and one worker who questioned the policy saw her hours cut. They said employees often had to work past their scheduled hours to cover shifts and then were reprimanded for incurring overtime, among other allegations.
Once they began organizing, they said their employers aggressively tried to discourage their efforts. When workers failed to garner enough votes to form a union during a January election, organizers announced they had filed unfair labor practice charges against the company and urged that the vote should be thrown out.
Tudor's employee
“I really want to see some good come out of this,” said Nicholson, who was one of the employees suspended by Tudor's. “If I didn’t proceed on and take this to the end, I would feel that I was just as guilty as they were. I hope they learn you can't treat people like they’re replaceable. We are human beings."
Nicholson was inspired to form a union because of her father and late husband, who were both union men working in coal mining and pipefitting in
“Right before he passed away, he said, ‘Cynthia, you're gonna do great things,'" she said of her husband, who died of cancer. "At that moment, I didn’t know what he was talking about, but then it hit me when we started organizing and getting out there. He would be so proud.”
“Companies have a playbook and they follow it all across the country — whether it’s Tudor's in
More often than not, companies are not held accountable for the actions they take to stop organizing campaigns, he said.
“It’s hard to get workers, particularly in small towns, particularly with employers like Tudor’s who loom large in the cultural significance in places like
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