Solar employees join UAW, management hires anti-union consultants with "96% success rate" and lays off 40% of workforce - claims not union-busting
Solar employees join UAW, management hires anti-union consultants with "96% success rate" and lays off 40% of workforce - claims not union-busting
EmPower Solar suspended 40% of its workforce but says action is unrelated to recent successful election of workers to join UAW
In the wake of its decision to furlough workers, EmPower had several job postings on its website, including for solar installers.
If the workers were truly "laid off" then they've got first dibs on being re-hired, right?
(...right?)
Maybe it's time for the Department of Labor to make sure that gets enforced.
That's commonly in a union contract...
Didn't the NRLB recently make a decision that union-busting behavior validates a potential union?
Would that apply here, or am I being too generous?
Edit because I went back and read the article:
days after a victorious union election
Oh no, it's worse than I thought
Unions aside, how did solar go from the purview of the science hippies to the scam sales off grid prepper vibe it has become?
Do I feel this way just because I live in Texas?
If their reasoning for the layoffs is because business is slowing down... but they fired 21 workers and now have open applications for those positions on their website...doesnt this display their motive of not wanting to negotiate fair working terms with the union etc...should there be some rules against hiring new people to replace those positions while this is going on?
How is being an anti-union consultant a legal job?
Because money writes the rules.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Installers and technicians at EmPower Solar, in Bethpage – concerned about poor working conditions and issues they faced on the job – reached out to the United Auto Workers after the gains it won during the “stand up” strikes at the big three automakers.
“If you’re afraid of heights, it’s not the job for you,” said Lozano, who was being paid $18.65 an hour, plus bonuses dependent on the number of solar panel installations he completed monthly.
The union-organizing drive stemmed from Lozano and other workers wanting their concerns and voices to actually be heard by management, he added, and to not have to work under constant pressure to finish jobs and worry about high turnover rates.
In the wake of its decision to furlough workers, EmPower had several job postings on its website, including for solar installers.
He added: “We should all be working together right now to make EmPower the best solar company in the world and a partnership between them and labor, setting an example for the new economy going forward.”
“We were told the green economy had to be a race to the bottom, and there was nothing anyone could do about it,” the UAW’s president, Shawn Fain, said during a US Senate hearing last November.
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