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I have submitted the following to the ACLU (go to their Donor Relations page (<<<donor-relations.aclu.or…>>>):
I have been a supporter of the ACLU and have made contributions to the ACLU in the past.
I am writing to register my concern that, in the case of terminated ACLU employee Katherine Oh, the actions that the ACLU has taken to block …
I have submitted the following to the ACLU (go to their Donor Relations page (<<<https://donor-relations.aclu.org/hc/en-us/requests/new>>>):
I have been a supporter of the ACLU and have made contributions to the ACLU in the past.
I am writing to register my concern that, in the case of terminated ACLU employee Katherine Oh, the actions that the ACLU has taken to block her from having her case heard by the NLRB are actions that, if this woman had worked for another employer, the ACLU would be defending her right to avoid being forced into arbitration since her arbitration agreement was not collectively bargained, and she therefore has access to the NLRB, as long as the NLRB concludes that employer behavior violated the National Labor Relations Act.
This appears to me to be a case where the ACLU is acting like any other corporation, trying to evade and even dismantle the rules designed to protect the civil rights of employees vis-a-vis their employer.
Employees should not be forced into arbitration when the employer has engaged in unacceptable behavior and the employee's existing arbitration agreement is not part of a collective bargaining agreement.
In my view, the ACLU should not be behaving toward their own employee this way.
The implications of this case go far beyond just Ms. Oh and would be very damaging to the rights of workers who are not in a collective bargaining setting to gain access to protections of the NLRB.
Thank you Gary. I will use your note as a template. I have been too busy all day to work out a letter to that organization that I and my parents have supported since I was a child, seventy or so years ago. I thanked Tom for the heads up and I will snail mail a letter with their renewal letter back to them in their envelope. They will at least have to open it. It is, as so much today is, a real piss-off, to say the least.
I'm in a Jeff Tiedrich frame of mind.
I was grateful that one of the commenters mentioned this. It has escaped me.
Gary
As Joyce always ends her letter, "We are all in this together". A quick comment on other's comments keep us all a bit more focussed and up to speed. You usually sound on top of it, Gary.