{"id":177240,"date":"2019-11-15T19:47:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T00:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/11\/15\/you-dont-do-good-by-doing-bad\/"},"modified":"2019-11-15T19:47:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-16T00:47:00","slug":"you-dont-do-good-by-doing-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/11\/15\/you-dont-do-good-by-doing-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"You Don’t Do Good by Doing Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"

In what has been an increasingly common story, both Amnesty International<\/a> and the Southern Poverty Law Center<\/a> have been found to violate their employees labor organizing rights:<\/p>\n

The U.S. arm of Amnesty International, the global human rights group, broke the law by threatening its own employees, a National Labor Relations Board judge has ruled.<\/span>

<\/span> Managers at Amnesty International USA violated the law that protects employees\u2019 right to organize for improved working conditions, Administrative Law Judge Michael Rosas wrote in a decision issued Tuesday.<\/span>

<\/span> According to the ruling, last year a group of unpaid interns, with support from some of Amnesty\u2019s unionized permanent employees, drafted a petition to their supervisor asking to be paid. \u201cAmnesty International\u2019s commitment to human rights should be proven from within first,\u201d they wrote, according to the ruling.<\/span>

<\/span> In response, Amnesty\u2019s executive director held meetings in which she made implied threats; told employees to make workplace complaints verbally before putting them in writing; equated their organizing with disloyalty; and asked staff to report co-workers\u2019 activism to management.<\/span>

<\/span> All of those actions violated the National Labor Relations Act, the judge concluded.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

and for the SPLC: <\/p>\n

Southern Poverty Law Center management said Tuesday they would not voluntarily recognize a union organized by employees at the civil rights nonprofit and have hired a Virginia law firm whose website boasts about victories over labor organization attempts.<\/span>

<\/span>\u2026\u2026\u2026
<\/span>The SPLC Union said in a statement Tuesday it was \u201cdisappointed\u201d in the decision but that it would go through an election, if necessary. <\/span>

<\/span>\u201cManagement’s refusal to voluntarily recognize the union and decision to hire a law firm that specializes in ‘union avoidance strategies’ are counter to SPLC’s values,\u201d the statement said. \u201cThe Center cannot truly claim to support workers’ rights, while also hiring a ‘union avoidance’ law firm to prevent its own workers from exercising our right to collective bargaining.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s the hypocrisy, stupid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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