http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/04/book-culture-fired-workers_n_5558728.html?ir=Business
"We have re-hired all four store managers who were terminated last week," the Book Culture statement read. "There is no longer a labor dispute. Book Culture has now recognized the RWDSU as the union representing our employees. We are respectful of the rights of our employees to unionize and of the views of our customers in the community and [nearby Columbia University]." I found this line to be pretty interesting considering that these employees were fired for exercising their rights to have a Union. In the article it stated that the 5 total were promoted to "manager" in title only which made it against company policy to participate in a Union. I looked around online using Google and I found 724,000 threads on the subject as well as the company which lead me to believe that the story had to be true. There were posts on Facebook about it, on a site Democratic Underground.com, on lockerdome.com as well as numerous other sites. Four out of the five employees excepted their jobs back. I would just wonder if I would want to work for a company that will not respect my rights to want to have a Union. I feel overall the story and the sources are fairly legit. They used firsthand accounts, i.e the workers and even the company reps. The main motive was to let the public know what happened to these workers.
Right, not all first hand accounts can be trusted, but I really feel that these sources are good and reliable. Great post.
ReplyDeleteSince you were able to verify the story in more places does make the story more legit. The danger of unrestricted web publishing allows for stories like these to be falsely reported. I did not know that this was even going on, it's crazy that they tried to fire them. There must be more going on at that store for them to feel the need to unionize. I would have demanded more pay since I had the manager title, but jobs are hard to come by though. This was a good read, thanks.
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