Home Depot workers in Philadelphia overwhelmingly reject socialist labor union

[Michele Fennelly White]

I'm a union asshole.

Home Depot workers in Philadelphia rejected the first store-wide
labor union at the world’s largest home improvement retailer
Saturday night, a loss for a fledgling movement to organize at
major U.S. companies.

Workers voted 165 to 51 against forming Home Depot Workers
United, which would have represented 274 employees at the store,
according to the National Labor Relations Board, which oversaw
the voting. The company and union organizations have five days
to file objections.

The defeat for the organizers could discourage activist workers
who have successfully formed the first unions at big chains,
including Amazon, Starbucks, Trader Joe’s and Apple, but have
since suffered setbacks in getting collective bargaining off the
ground or organizing more unions.

The Atlanta-based company employs about 500,000 people at its
2,316 stores in the U.S., Canada and Mexico.

Vincent Quiles, the Home Depot employee leading the unionization
effort, told WHYY-FM that the attempt to organize workers had
been a “tall order.”

“It wouldn’t be an easy fight to have,” Quiles said. “But you do
these things because you believe them to be right.”

Quiles previously said discontent with compensation, working
conditions, understaffing and lack of training are among the
grievances that spurred the effort to organize.

After the failed union vote, Home Depot spokesperson Margaret
Smith told WHYY, “We’re happy that the associates at this store
voted to continue working directly with the company. That
connection is important to our culture, and we will continue
listening to our associates and making The Home Depot a great
place to work and grow.”

Quiles has filed a complaint of unfair labor practices with the
NRLB, alleging managers engaged in inappropriate surveillance
and interrogation tactics against union supporters. Quiles has
said managers followed him around the stores and tried to
disrupt any conversations he tried to have with co-workers, even
if it wasn’t about the union.

Instead, Quiles said he relied on TikTok videos, group text
messaging and e-mailing to campaign for the union.

Home Depot has denied the complaint’s allegations.

https://nypost.com/2022/11/06/home-depot-workers-in-philadelphia-
overwhelmingly-reject-labor-union/

[Michele Fennelly White]

Fuck those niggers and nigger lovers.

Home Depot workers do not have the right to wear Black Lives
Matter merchandise or imagery while on the job, a federal judge
has ruled.

In his ruling Friday, administrative judge Paul Bogas rejected a
complaint from the US National Labor Relations Board that the
home improvement retailer violated employees’ rights by barring
them from displaying BLM gear, Bloomberg News said in a report.

Bogas wrote that the BLM moniker lacked “an objective and
sufficiently direct relationship to terms and conditions of
employment.”

BLM’s message “originated and is primarily used to address the
unjustified killings of black individuals by law enforcement,”
he wrote.

“To the extent the message is being used for reasons beyond
that, it operates as a political umbrella for societal concerns
and related to the workplace only in the sense that workplaces
are part of society,” the judge said.

The labor relations board is entitled to appeal the ruling,
Bloomberg said.

The Atlanta-based retailer isn’t the only one cited for BLM-
related speech.

The NLRB general counsel has also filed a complaint against
Whole Foods Market on similar grounds, claiming that the food
peddler’s ban on BLM signs or merchandise worn by employees
violates their rights.

That case is part of ongoing deliberations by a judge in San
Francisco.

A representative for Home Depot did not immediately respond to a
request for comment from The Post on Sunday.

Comments:

J Pellegrini
12 June, 2022

You go to your place of employment to do a job NOT to express
your private or political beliefs. There should be a clear and
separate line drawn between work and outside of work. Good
decision by the judge. If allowed to stand, it opens the
employer to lawsuits by others who could claim they felt
uncomfortable in the workplace.

Greg_L
12 June, 2022

I totally agree with you, but the same employers who think the
workers should not be expressing their personal opinions think
there's some marketing advantage to wave the rainbow flag.

So Walgreens and others have turned their logo to the rainbow.
That's not right either!

Can you imagine how a conservative person must feel that's he's
there to sell a product at Walgreen or other business, and he's
now forced to endorse this bullying agenda?

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gear-on-the-job/