(The Center Square) – More than 400 workers from two northern Ohio cities voted this month to remove Teamster union control from their workplaces.
According to the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, Omnisource employees in Toledo and Frito-Lay employees in Wooster – a total of 430 employees – could have all ties cut with the union in the next few days.
Teamsters Local 20 officials could still file a request to review with the National Labor Relations Board in Washington, D.C., in the next few days.
“Teamsters union officials continue to lose support from the very workers they claim to ‘represent’, and these cases demonstrate yet again why every worker, in Ohio and nationwide, deserves the protection of a Right to Work law so they can decide for themselves whether or not to financially support union officials’ activities,” National Right to Work Foundation President Mark Mix said.
The process started in October 2023 when Frito-Lay employee Dusty Hinkle submitted a petition asking the NLRB to hold union decertification elections. Omnisource employee Daniel Caughhorn filed a similar petition last August.