Cablevision workers to union: Get out
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Unionized employees at the Cablevision television company are itching to leave their union, according to a new poll.
An independent pollster hired by the company asked 264 workers at a Brooklyn plant whether they wanted to remain in the Communications Workers of America union. More than 90 percent of employees participated in the poll and anti-union voters prevailed 129-115 in the anonymous vote.
“For the first time in nearly three years, our Brooklyn employees have expressed their feelings about the CWA in a vote,” the company said in a statement. “They rejected continued CWA representation. It is time for the CWA to respect our employees’ wishes and withdraw.”
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Workers have run into political trouble in their quest to withdraw from CWA Local 1109. Workers submitted a decertification petition to the National Labor Relations Board, a federal labor arbiter that oversees union elections, in 2013. The union responded with a slew of unfair labor practice allegations, which are often used to delay votes.
The union dismissed the poll, calling it a “sham vote” and a “new low in the behavior of American management” in a press release.