I DON'T KNOW IF THAT IS GOOD OR BAD, NONETHELESS, IT WAS THEIR CHOICE.....SKID
> "Cable Sales" apparently caught this article in the local St. Louis paper (see her/his Unmoderated posting). I thought that everyone might like to see it. Sounds like the peasants and townfolks are starting to pick up their pitchforks and torches and gather around the castle to challenge the "lords" of the manor...could be interesting...hopefully Cable Sales or Skidmark will be able to report more detail for us on Thursday. It's too bad that it has to get to this point in the first place.
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> Employees in 4 local offices of Charter will vote on union
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> By Jerri Stroud
> Of The Post-Dispatch
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> * Union organizer says defeat in St. Peters vote galvanized workers in other locations.
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> Employees of Charter Communications Inc. at four offices in the St. Louis area will vote Wednesday on whether to seek union representation.
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> The elections come a little more than six weeks after Charter employees in St. Peters rejected union representation.
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> The defeat in St. Peters on Sept. 27 prompted employees in Fenton, Overland, Ferguson and Florissant to move ahead with elections, said Mike Muenks, an organizer with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.
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> About 100 installers and technicians in the Fenton office are eligible to vote on representation by IBEW Local 2, along with 42 in Overland, 22 in Florissant and 21 in Ferguson.
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> "The employees in other systems were disappointed" with the St. Peters results, "but it also galvanized them," Muenks said.
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> Employees in Osage Beach, Mo., will vote on Dec. 6.
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> Some workers say Charter has intimidated pro-union employees, prompting the union to file unfair-labor practice complaints with the National Labor Relations Board.
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> Arlyn Small Jr., vice president of human resources for Charter's Midwest division, said Charter held meetings to give employees information and answer questions before the vote. He denied that the company had tried to intimidate workers who favor the union.
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> Erick Quinn, an employee in the Fenton office, said a Charter manager tore up a newspaper story about the organizing effort that Quinn was reading after a company meeting in September.
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> Small said he would be surprised if anyone tore up the newspaper story. "It wouldn't make any sense for anyone to do that," he said.
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> Quinn said a supervisor from human resources told him he would be disciplined if he solicited other employees on the union's behalf. Quinn said he had talked about the union but had not solicited anyone.
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> Charter, the nation's No. 4 cable operator, has its headquarters in Town and Country.
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> Reporter Jerri Stroud:\ E-mail: (-REDACTED-) \ Phone: 314-340-8384
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> Published in Business on Saturday, November 9, 2002.
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