Re:RE: Labor Board Issues Three Complaints Against WW1

[Dan Billings <billingsdan@yahoo.com>]

--- tklaundry@juno.com wrote:
> WW1 is
> Boston's ONLY source for traffic.  Employees have no
> alternative source of employment if they want to
> remain in their chosen profession, that would
> probably be a major reason they organized to begin
> with.  

The key point is the alternatives that the employer
has, not the alternatives that the employee has.  If
WW1 can get others to competently do the job for $13
then the the wage rate is reasonable.  

The Labor Board complaint has nothing to do with the
wage rate, it has to do with the conduct of the
employer that, if true, violated state and federal
labor relations laws.  WW1's employee have a right to
organize but WW1 will only pay them more if they
believe that the alternative to doing so would be
harmful to the company.

-- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine

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