Kendall Square Cinema Employee Union! - Unions

talking union

Mon, 05 Dec 2005 12:31:33 -0500

These are great sites to check out for more information on what's going with other service industry union efforts...

Borders union

Target union

Starbucks Union

Wakeupwalmart

MISSING - Have you seen this union buster?

Mon, 07 Nov 2005 09:54:45 -0500

Our friends at Labor Relations Solutions are nowhere to be found! Their very professional web address lrs2win.com is no longer working.

Simple server problems, or did they change their name?

Are they okay?

If you have any information, please post it here.

I miss them.

American Rights to Work Tour

Fri, 21 Oct 2005 11:10:01 -0400

I had the privilege of speaking at the American Rights to Work Tour yesterday evening. Thanks to Jobs with Justice (http://www.massjwj.net/) for thinking of the Kendall for this Teach-in. I was honored to be included and totally humbled by all the speakers who have to deal with far worse, in much more difficult jobs and risk way more than I ever did in order to make companies recognize their rights.

I was asked specifically to address management’s response to our union drive (hiring Labor Relations Solution [lrs2win.com] and flying in Landmark employees to tell us how great the company is, etc.).

One thing I can’t stress enough (and didn’t stress much last night as my public speaking skills are one step short of horrendous) is the amount of money Landmark wasted on a third party to come in and try to stop 19 people from voting in a union. I wish I knew how much money they spent and still ended up with a 17 to 1 vote. Think of how much two “No” votes would have cost!

Thanks to everyone who put together such a great event and thank you to all the speakers who participated!

any progress?

Tue, 04 Oct 2005 07:17:56 -0400

Just wanted to know how everthing is coming? How is it at the work place? Is your contract done? If so did you get what you want? How long did it take to get the union stuff going, I mean from the moment you wanted to form a union to actualy getting voted in. What is going on with your wages? Just want to get some ideas.....thats all for now, need to go to work and we all know work is not fun.

Know your rights

Fri, 19 Aug 2005 12:22:01 -0400

All Kendall Square Cinema employees should be aware that you are entitled to have union representation present during any disciplinary meetings. If you have an issue with a warning or write up, you are entitled to union representation at you meeting with your supervisor.

Weingarten Rights

EMPLOYEE'S RIGHT TO UNION REPRESENTATION

The right of employees to have union representation at investigatory interviews was announced by the U.S. Supreme Court in a 1975 case (NLRB vs. Weingarten, Inc. 420 U.S. 251, 88 LRRM 2689). These rights have become known as the Weingarten rights.

Employees have Weingarten rights only during investigatory interviews. An investigatory interview occurs when a supervisor questions an employee to obtain information which could be used as a basis for discipline or asks an employee to defend his or her conduct.

If an employee has a reasonable belief that discipline or other adverse consequences may result from what he or she says, the employee has the right to request union representation. Management is not required to inform the employee of his/her Weingarten rights; it is the employees responsibility to know and request.