PRESS RELEASE

For Immediate Release Contact: Chavel Lopez
23 March 2007 Office 299.266

Level III Hearing with School Trustees Demands Stop Union Busting/Stop the Retaliation

Southwest Workers’ Union a nineteen year old grassroots organization that organizes and represents school workers (custodians, cafeteria workers, bus drivers, bus assistants, warehousemen, maintenance workers and paraprofessionals) in San Antonio, Texas, Austin, Tx, and the Rio Grande Valley will be holding two hearings in open session with the North East Independent School District (NEISD) Trustees.

The first hearing is addressing NEISD Administration denying Southwest Workers’ Union (SWU) to enter schools and facilities and having reasonable access to members and employees during orientations and during their duty free lunch break to organize them.

The second hearing is in reference to retaliation against SWU Local #14 President Ken Kopczynski in NEISD who was being secretly monitored and fired in October 19, 2006. SWU views this as violation of our right to organize and a union busting effort so school workers will not have a voice. NEISD is clearly violating our freedom of assembly and freedom of expression guaranteed by the US Constitution.

SWU which also organizes throughout San Antonio, Tx does not have a problem accessing members and employees in other school districts only in NEISD.

As a remedy SWU is demanding that the union busting effort and the retaliation cease and desist immediately. That Mr. Ken Kopczynski be immediately reinstated and his pay be made whole. That SWU be permitted to enter NEISD employee orientations, schools and facilities to organize.

Dignity and Justice for NEISD School Workers!

Labels: NEISD, school workers, union