OHIO — Hundreds of employees from across Northern Ohio have voted in favor of removing Teamsters union control at their workplaces.
According to a National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation press release, the elections, both certified this month by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), occurred at Wooster, Ohio, Frito-Lay warehouses and scrap metal firm Omnisource’s Toledo, Ohio, facility, which are under the control of Teamsters Local 452 and Teamsters Local 20, respectively.
“Teamsters union officials continue to lose support from the very workers they claim to ‘represent’, and these cases demonstrate yet again why every worker, in Ohio and nationwide, deserves the protection of a Right to Work law so they can decide for themselves whether or not to financially support union officials’ activities,” said Mark Mix, National Right to Work Foundation president. “While we’re glad these workers have succeeded in freeing themselves from unwanted unionization, it should not require months of litigation and overcoming attempts by union lawyers to overturn the workers’ votes…