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Appeal to the Labor-Friendly Public About MCPL Unionization
I'm writing to let you know about the current effort to secure union representation for staff at Monroe County Public Library.the library board’s work session on October 10, the library's lawyers presented a resolution that requires that 75% of the eligible unit vote, and that 50% of the eligible unit vote in favor of unionization.
This means that if the eligible unit were 100 employees, 75 would have to vote. And of those 75, 50 would have to vote “yes.” (Section 4.A of the resolution contains the language in question.)
Our issue with this is that it would be very easy for anti-union folk to simply not show up to vote and thus put an end to the union drive.For example, we could have 74% of the unit show up and vote 'yes', but if no one else shows up, we get no union representation.
Please contact the MCPL board members and let them know that the current resolution should allow for a simple DEMOCRATIC majority. To require 75% and allow for anti-union folk to simply not show up and thus kill the effort is anything but democratic.
Following are the e-mail addresses of the MCPL board members:
moberlys@iquest.net
flamingosIU52@aol.com
paustin92@insightbb.com
jawalsh@indiana.edu
helpkidsreadmore@yahoo.com
risinger@indiana.edu
jbstockton@bluemarble.net
Sincerely,
Phil Eskew, MCPL Technology Trainer
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