On August 3, 2023, workers at Masami Foods in Klamath Falls voted to strip United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 555 union officials of their forced representation powers. A petition submitted by employee Scott Child with the National Labor Relations Board Region 19 (NLRB) eventually led to this successful vote. The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation provided Child with free legal aid.
Child and his coworkers at Masami Foods submitted a decertification vote on March 2, 2023. Under federal labor law, workers can kick off a decertification vote with the support of at least 30% of workers in a workplace that is unionized. The NLRB then slated a vote to be held on May 11, 2023.
On May 11, Masami employees made it clear that they don’t want union representation by voting 54-25 to kick the union out from their workplace. That said, UFCW union officials previously filed […]
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