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Spectrum’s Electricians Caught in the Switches

By RICHARD STEIER
Posted 1/3/20

There was no picket line New Year’s Eve outside the West 23rd St. New York corporate offices of Charter/Spectrum, comprised by electricians from Local 3 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, which a week earlier marked the 1,000 day of its strike against the giant cable provider with a rally at City Hall that included several City Council Members threatening to revoke the firm’s municipal franchise.

The absence of protesters on the overcast, chilly morning had less to do with the weather than with the reality that the fate of the walkout, and Local 3’s ability to negotiate for the 1,800 electricians, rested less with public opinion at this point than with the National Labor Relations Board, which is considering a decertification petition brought against the union claiming lack of fair representation.

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