Texas Comcast Workers Choose Workplace Issues Over Management’s Fear Tactics in Vote for CWA
Choosing workplace issues over management's fear tactics, 118 Comcast employees in Farmers Branch, Texas, voted for CWA representation this summer. The union election for the technicians and warehouse employees represents an about-face from three years ago, when the employees had been "persuaded" by the company's fear tactics to vote against getting a union.
The keys to the workers' victory were a strong workers' organizing committee and the involvement of CWA-represented technicians from another Comcast unit in nearby Arlington, Texas.
"When management started lying about the Comcast cable workers' union contract in Arlington and misrepresented the employees' support for their union, they were able to hear the other side of the story from Arlington cable workers themselves," said CWA District 7 Organizing Coordinator Sandy Rusher.
"After this, it wasn't hard for the cable workers to decide who wasn't telling the truth," she said.
