Still No Health Care. Still No Job. But 907 Days Later, One Vindicating Court Decision.

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/20/1122321/-Still-No-Health-Care-Still-No-Job-But-907-Days-Later-One-Vindicating-Court-Decision

By jpmassarFollow

Nine hundred and four days into a lockout of kitchen workers by the Castlewood Country Club ("land of the rich, home of the selfish&quot , Adminstrative Law Judge Clifford Anderson handed down a decision that the workers at Castlewood had amazing faith was coming. He found that

Castlewood had maintained an unlawful lockout for two years.
Castlewood had bargained in bad faith.
Castlewood's attorney was not credible
Castlewood maintained 'animus' towards its locked out workers.
Castlewood management violated numerous other labor laws.

And his decision orders the club to reinstate the workers and give them back pay and benefits.



Castlewood Country Club is located in Pleasanton, California, just across the Bay, over the hills and down I-580 from San Francisco. Pleasanton is a wealthy town, and the membership of the country club is, of course, even wealthier. They could well have afforded to pay an extra $0.29 a day for health insurance to continue coverage for the people who served them apertifs in their leisure; likely they wouldn't have noticed the difference in their monthly Cayman Island tax-avoidance bank account statements. Instead, management told the workers

...if we want to come back to work, we have to agree to pay $849 a month for family health care.

This on salaries of as little as $10/hr!

FULL story at link.