Second Arbitrator Blasts Quebecor on Neutrality Agreement Violations
02 Agosto 2006 - 9:26AM
PR Newswire (US)
Independent Arbitrator Rules Quebecor World Violated Neutrality
Agreement WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- For the second time
this year, an independent arbitrator has ruled that Quebecor World
Inc. (NYSE:IQW), the second largest printing company in the world,
has violated an agreement with the Teamsters Union to remain
neutral and allow its employees to make their own decision to be
represented by a union. The ruling came after the workers narrowly
lost their union election for representation with the Graphic
Communications Conference of the Teamsters at a plant in
Brookfield, Wisconsin, last February. The arbitrator labeled the
company's conduct as "a coordinated effort to convey ... opposition
to unionization," in direct violation of the agreement they
negotiated with the Teamsters. "This company has no respect for its
workers and will go to great lengths to silence their voices," said
Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa. "The repeated violation of
the neutrality agreement proves it." The arbitrator took the
extraordinary step of issuing a cease and desist order giving the
union the right to review any literature that the company plans to
distribute to employees in future union election campaigns. The
arbitrator noted that, "the type of improper influence on
organizing campaigns that tainted the Brookfield campaign and the
previous campaign" can be prevented by "such prior review." "Once
again, the company's misconduct has been exposed by a neutral
outside arbitrator," said George Tedeschi, President of the Graphic
Communications Conference of the Teamsters. Last May the company
had agreed to the union proposal for a less adversarial process
after two-years of a hard-fought campaign to bring union
representation to the workers at Quebecor World's North American
plants. Within weeks of signing the agreement, Quebecor began its
campaign of "improper influence." "We will continue to hold the
company to its word and insist that it live up to the commitments
it has made to workers and their union," Tedeschi said. Founded in
1903, the Teamsters Union represents more than 1.4 million
hardworking men and women in the United States and Canada.
DATASOURCE: International Brotherhood of Teamsters CONTACT: Noa
Oren of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, +1-202-624-6916
Web site: http://www.teamster.org/
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