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GCC/IBT Rallies For Workers Organizing at AFL WEB
June 28, 2010
On Monday, June 28, 2010 the Graphic Communications Conference of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters rallied in support of the workers at AFL WEB. Workers at AFL WEB, a local print shop in Secaucus, NJ, are fighting for a union with the IBT/GCC Local 1L. After the local organizing committee delivered a petition to management asking for recognition, nine members of the the committee were fired a few days later.
Below is a video of GCC/IBT Local 1 organizer Michael "Doc" Doklia speaking about the campaign to organized workers at AFL WEB.
Workers from AFL WEB talk about the challenges they face trying to organize a union.
The union is currently fighting the layoffs and trying the get the workers reinstated. A full union election is expected to happen in the next few months.
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