Submitted on Mon, 04/01/2013 - 10:41pm
By Garret Ellison, Mlive.com, April 1, 2013
GRAND RAPIDS, MI — An 8-year employee with the Star Tickets call center in Grand Rapids has filed an unfair labor practice charge against her former employer, who she claims fired her last week for helping organize the office into a union.
Deirdre Cunningham filed the charge with the National Labor Relations Board office in Grand Rapids on March 27, a day after she was allegedly fired from her job as a client service representative with Star Tickets.
Cunningham was instrumental in helping organize employees at the national ticketing agency’s Grand Rapids office into a bargaining unit that was certified by the NLRB on March 25. The certification followed a vote to unionize with the Industrial Workers of the World on March 6.
Submitted on Mon, 04/01/2013 - 5:00pm
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Submitted on Sun, 03/31/2013 - 4:48pm
By Jeff Smith, GRIID.org, March 31, 2013
The Grand Rapids branch of the IWW is organizing a protest for this Monday, April 1st in response to the recent firing of one of their members for organizing fellow workers at Star Tickets.
The protest Facebook event page states:
IWW Organizer Deirdre Cunningham has been fired from Star Tickets in Grand Rapids where she had been working/organizing for years. The termination comes on the heels of a successful union campaign, which won IWW union certification for all Star Tickets Workers. Deirdre was fired on the day the Union was certified in an attempt to scare the other workers away from their Union.
Submitted on Tue, 03/26/2013 - 11:52pm
The Sisters' Camelot Canvass Union are doing a phone and email zap on the Sister's Camelot collective. There are two phone numbers and one email to contact.
Please call Eric Gooden (SC Collective member) at 612-823-0647
Please call the SC Collective office number at 612-746-3051
Please email [email protected]
Please tell them to:
1. Rehire the fired union member.
2. Negotiate with the union.
Below is a sample email that can also be used as a script for calling as well.
Dear Sisters' Camelot,
Submitted on Tue, 03/26/2013 - 5:35pm
IWW Organizer Deirdre Cunningham has been fired from Star Tickets after a successful union election. The IWW workers of Star Tickets were officially recognized as the bargaining agent for Star Tickets today. Also today Mrs. Cunningham was fired in retaliation.
Call owner Jack Krasula and demand justice for Deirdre!!
Phone - 248-945-1127
