UPS hires union buster… at unit of five employees

by COLIN STAUB

Teamsters Local 670 is seeking to organize five more workers at an already unionized UPS facility in Hermiston, Oregon. That’s such a small group, yet the parcel delivery giant still flew in a Florida-based union buster to try to talk them out of unionizing.

On May 5, Local 670 asked the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to hold a vote to see if the five  dispatchers want to join the existing Teamsters bargaining unit there.

In response, UPS hired anti-union law firm Ogletree Deakins and signed a contract with Government Resources Consultants of America, run by David Rittof, to persuade workers against unionizing.

The consultant firm in turn outsourced the work to Jon Burress of Florida-based union buster “Eternity Souls,” to conduct “employee and supervisory group meetings” related to the union drive. That’s according to a form the federal government requires employers to disclose when they hire consultants to persuade workers during a union campaign.

Ballots will be counted Aug. 31.

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