MEChA students rally for almond plant workers - NEW

MEChA, the nation's largest Chicano/a student group, held a rally during its national conference to support union organizing at Blue Diamond Growers in Sacramento, CA. The Blue Diamond workers have been organizing for more than three years to join the International Longshore and Warehouse Union.

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• almonds

[marcyrein]

"Secret ballot elections" run by the National Labor Relations Board look nothing like elections for public office. The employer controls the voter lists, has total access to the voters and can threaten them with job loss and plant closure if they vote wrong. Blue Diamond did these things. The NLRB found that BDG committed 20 violations of federal law in its effort to deny workers a fair vote. The workers and the ILWU only want fair rules for a vote. Why won't Blue Diamond agree to play fair?

[nimitz1983]

Shut the fuck up and pick my god damn almonds! If you feel your being token advantage of by an employer get a new FUCKING job. You are nothing but commie fucks. In a free nation its your job to better yourself not your employers. Its your fault you are failures not Blue Diamonds. I work at at grocery store making 12 dollars a hour do I blame it for my problems? No I blame myself not my employer. Be happy you got a job. Fuck Mecha and fuck ACORN,

[Kissificationify]

@Zapparific,

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"Workers of the World Unite isn't just a slogan anymore" -Andy Stern watch?v=WzG0xpkjWrA and " Proletarians of all countries, unite!" - Karl Marx & Engel's Manifesto of the Communist Party,1848, at Chp. 9. watch?v=uD-h25evW3g (Equal obligation of all to work in industrial armies [8th pt. of communist manifesto])

[Zapparific]

NOT TRUE.

Federal law sets NLRB, an objective 3rd party, to oversee the election. Blue Diamond submits their employee's names to the NLRB (names confirmed by the Union). Then, a secret ballot election, overseen by NLRB, is held with neither company nor union knowing who voted how.

That is fair and that is the law.

But the union wants to skirt the law and intimidate workers into voting "their way".

[Zapparific]

This is mis-information on a breath taking scale.

Blue Diamond petitioned the National Labor Rights Board to hold a sanctioned, legal secret ballot election among its employees to vote yes or no to a union. The Longshoreman's Union behind these demonstrations responded that they had no interest in unionizing Blue Diamond (because they know that les than 10% of employees favor the union).

The Union wants a Mafia like non-secret, open-to-intimidation caucas to intimidate workers. What creeps