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News Article: Arizona Coyotes accused of not properly paying employees, union busting in NLRB complaints
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This is a serious allegation. But at the same time, Arizona is a right to work state. Do employees of NHL team's have a union? If not, I understand it to be something that can't be talked about or formed. I'm not knowledgeable enough at this point. Perhaps someone with more understanding could chime in?
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There’s more than one accusation. Even with a settlement it doesn’t stop the Feds from investigating.
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I believe the same person filed both complaints. More likely one very disgruntled person than pervasive problem.
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The article mentions explicitly that it was two separate people. One was a payroll administrator, and the other was a ticket salesperson. So at best you've got two former employees who were disgruntled enough to press charges against the team for labor violations. It's likely there's at least some validity to their claims. When a franchise is bad at literally everything else, I'm not going to give it the benefit of the doubt on how it treats its staff. This a bad sign.
And with regard to the union stuff specifically, it's not surprising and maybe it was all legal, but it's still shitty. Workers deserve rights.
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Look, they very well may be in violation of labor laws, but you/I/one/youse guys can't assume that based just upon an allegation or two.
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I think that it's safe to assume that you are aware of the history of the teamsters, the AFL-CIO, the Dockworker's Union and of course Chicago's labor union fun. Workers deserve rights, but companies and governments deserve to be protected from the corruption which comes from unionization.
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OK. I'm probably wrong. I was going off of this:
"A lawsuit filed on June 16 against the Coyotes by James Whitener, who worked in ticket sales for the team from September 2011 until May 2017, implies that Whitener also filed the second NLRB charge."
https://deadspin.com/employees-accused-arizona-coyotes-of-union-busting-fai-1820491719
Are you saying there's no corruption in business or government? Are you saying that all business are clean too?
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Dave Tippett seems like the kind of coach who would call a quarterback draw on third and seventeen.
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I forgot about the fact that it was the CFL. Calling a quarterback draw on 3rd and 17 in the CFL is like calling a quarterback draw on 4th and 17 in the NFL.A more ludicrous (but unlikely) comparison is that Dave Tippett would run the ball up the middle on 1st down, then punt the ball on 2nd down and try to score a safety.
