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Silicon Valley Tech Company Illegally Fires Cal Poly Student Workers for Unionizing

Friday, January 8, 2010 by Roger R. Carter

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By Student Activists

After being subjected to an unannounced pay cut from
$10/hr to $8/hr, 2 Cal Poly Pomona student marketing representatives were fired
by their employer, Mountain View-based Uloop.com, for attempting to organize a
worker’s union. The students were fired from their part-time jobs 20minutes
after posting a message in a online inter-company forum announcing their
intention to form a union and have since filed charges with the National Labor
Relations Board.

The National Labor Relations Act of 1935 extends rights
to many private-sector employees including the right to organize and bargain
with their employer collectively. Employees covered by the Act are protected
from certain typed of employer misconduct and have the right to attempt to form
a union where none currently exists.





Take a look at the following article to read more about the Silicon Valley
Tech Company Illegally Fires Cal Poly Student Workers for Unionizing!   

 
Posted at 16:31 PM
Topic: Labor and Employment
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