Teamsters Local 25 and Dunkin Donuts Northeast DCP Reach Impasse in Negotiating Session
BOSTON, July 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Teamsters Local 25 and Dunkin Donuts negotiating session at the request of a federal mediator held on July 16, 2010 at the Federal Mediation & Conciliation Service's office in Boston, MA, did not resolve any of the outstanding issues according to Sean M. O'Brien, President and Principal Officer of Teamsters Local 25.
"It's obvious to all of us that after 24 negotiating sessions lasting over 11 months, Dunkin Donuts Northeast DCP is committed to breaking the union," stated President O'Brien. "Instead of investing the franchisees' money in hiring union busting law firms and trying negotiate decreases in current benefits, the company should be using their resources to improve the employees' health care, wages and working conditions. What's amazing to me is that even after all of our sessions the company still wants to take away benefits the employees currently enjoy."
President O'Brien also noted that the company was still insisting on an open shop contract even after the union offered to leave the issue subject to a secret ballot vote by the employees. "After the company's union busting lawyer rejected the offer without bothering to confer with his client it became even more obvious to me that this company never wanted a collective bargaining agreement with Local 25. I feel sorry for the 2,400 store owners who are not being properly represented at the bargaining table because it's their businesses that will be severely impacted by this labor dispute," O'Brien said.
"As far as we're concerned Teamsters Local 25 has done everything to reach an agreement with the company. Their response is to offer provisions they know we can't agree to and to insist on taking away benefits the employees now have. Therefore, we have decided that future negotiations would be a waste of time. Instead, our efforts will be to organize both regional and national boycotts of Dunkin Donuts stores and to do everything possible, within the law, to encourage Dunkin Donuts Northeast DCP to come to the bargaining table with an open mind on issues important to the employees and the union," O'Brien concluded.
It now appears likely that the work stoppage, boycott and labor dispute are imminent and will commence in the near future.
SOURCE Teamsters Local 25
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