The Organizing Committee
To Stop Exploitation
June 24, 2013
Mr. Jim Howard, General Manager, ISS Facility Services
1805 SE Hawthorne Rd.
Gainesville, FL. 32641
Dear Mr. Howard,
You violated our rights including the right to protected concerted activity. Words fail to describe how appalled we are with your interference or the distain felt by your employees at your heavy handedness. Your confiscating our literature is viewed as a needlessly aggressive delaying tactic. We again encourage you to be responsive and reasonable.
Our first demand was simply equal pay for equal work across Florida. In April all you had to do was give us the same raise the union forced you to pay South Florida. Instead, you chose to ignore us and in response to your stonewalling we began organizing and increased our demands to include back pay with interest. Your confiscation response in an attempt to crush our resolve senselessly escalated, polarized and emboldened us.
We have been forthright and transparent in sharing our plans and abhor interference in return. Your misconduct forced us to the National Labor Relations Board where we will be filing charges against you, organizing our representation according to DOL process and holding a secret ballot supervised by the NLRB. You will not be able to ignore us.
You are forcing us to engage in a more demanding and sophisticated response. You raised the stakes, we raise our demands. Since you’re making this a long and arduous process we demand all what is rightfully ours right now - the current mean pay scale reported by the US Department of Labor Statistics for our job description in Florida.
When your supervisors confiscated our literature they claimed the tender house as your turf. We plan to approach the FDOT for their opinion of your claim and we will ask them to disclose the amount provided under the ICA blanket agreement for bridge tender pay and for an audit to uncover suspected unethical profiteering.
We currently have committee members from all four of your west coast supervisory districts. Since you force us to become officially recognized, we will reach out to all your Florida districts to better amortize the greater effort you’ve imposed on us.
Again in an attempt to be reasonable you can stop our action by increasing pay & benefits now, to equal South Florida with back pay and interest but only if you agree to encourage ICA/FDOT to include Federal minimum pay protection in any future blanket Agreement. This is your next opportunity to do the right thing and time is of the essence.
Sincerely,
The Organizing Committee
c.c. Mr. Richie Rhodes, ICA ENCL. Copy of our 6/24/13 letter to Mr. Richie Rhodes
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