Big Labor tries to paint a picture that they are out working for the common worker, trying to improve their wages, workplace conditions and benefits. But the opposite is true, and every day the public witnesses their true intentions.
David Hightone, a former Assistant Director of Communications of the Amalgamated Transit Union, was threatened and fired for trying to organize professional staff at the AFL-CIO affiliated union. This is another clear example of Big Labor being anti-union when it concerns their own employees.
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Highnote said that he experienced similar intimidation. Only two weeks after Highnote signed his union card and started an organizing campaign, a senior advisor to Hanley allegedly threatened, “I only want to say this once. Larry (Hanley) is sensitive to all of the things going on in and outside of the office. If we find out that you are discussing workplace conditions with co-workers or anyone else, then one strike and you’re out.” Other senior Hanley advisors are also alleged to have harassed and attempted to deter him from organizing, but he continued to work to form an in-house union to represent the professional staff as a bargaining unit of the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild.
The ULP charge also alleges that the ATU’s reason for terminating him was pretextual. No “restructuring” took place, and two business days after his termination, the ATU hired someone into Highnote’s position.
Highnote stated, “People were scared of losing their jobs when Larry Hanley came in. Now that he has pushed out a number of staffers, they’re terrified.”
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