Workers at Verizon’s Information Services unit (which publishes its Yellow Pages) in Charleston, West Virginia, are part of a growing trend to decertify unions. The workers decided that they no longer wanted to be members of the Communications Workers of America Local 2001, which had represented them since February 2003.
Twenty-eight workers had been eligible to vote, and twenty-five did so. Only six voted to keep the union. Like many workers throughout the US, they felt they could do as well or better on their own. And no one would be deducting union dues. The union had represented both part time and full time employees.
The workers will now have to go it on their own for a year, because NLRB rules do not permit more than one union representation election in a twelve-month period.
This is another example that the promises that unions make, such as increased wages, guaranteed pensions, and job security, no longer ring true with workers.
