The Devil at My Doorstep by Bego David

Author:Bego, David [Bego, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: The Devil at My Doorstep
Publisher: Visionary Publishing, LLC
Published: 2010-02-26T05:00:00+00:00

No one listening or watching the demonstration knew that Daniel had an extremely poor attendance and performance track record and was eventually terminated for theft, factors undoubtedly influencing his comments. We also eventually learned he had been hired as an SEIU organizer. I suspect poor Daniel’s performance problems and eventual termination were all pre-meditated, staged acts encouraged by the union so they could file unfair labor practices against EMS and use them to defame the company in flyers and letters. This also positioned them for a last desperate act to force me to sign a Neutrality Agreement.

Meanwhile, the war continued. On March 13, as spring began to peek out with warmer temperatures, SEIU organizers solicited EMS employees in front of a customer’s building in Cincinnati before their shift telling them the union could get them “12 to 15 dollars per hour,” a totally bogus guarantee. A day later, approximately 8 to 10 organizers protested. To make a media splash, several organizers appeared five days later and demonstrated using a jail cell type prop. Inside the cardboard box painted to look like a jail cell, they had positioned a person wearing an EMS shirt. Emblazoned on the front were the words, “EMS Poverty Prison.” One handbill read, “Janitors Sentenced to Life in Working Poverty by EMS Janitorial.”

Hearing of these incidents and reading the handbills and flyers was difficult because I knew they were based on untruths. I kept trying to be calm, but when my blood pressure rose to the level where I wanted to march down to a building and shout out the truth for all to hear, prayer comforted me. Seeing workers used for union purposes hurt the most as I knew these workers did not realize they were being used. They were simply pawns in a chess game Stern and the SEIU were playing in the hope that I would cave into their demands. Tears came to my eyes when I thought of how hard I had worked, how hard all of us at EMS had worked to build a quality company with an unblemished track record of caring for our employees. Now mud was being slung at us from every corner, and all I could do was hope my customers would remain loyal and not dump us, and that friends and colleagues who knew me would stand by our side based on knowledge that EMS was the victim of unwarranted character assassination. But Stern and his union organizers didn’t care what I thought; they didn’t care at all about any of that.

This was proven when the union filed charges against our company with the NLRB. They included allegations at Sallie Mae for forced removal of union buttons, interrogation, impression of surveillance, and for threatening employees with job loss. In quick succession, SEIU told our customers we were “under investigation,” terminology designed to scare the customers into canceling contracts with us. If they did so, and others followed, there would be the choice as to whether to sign

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