From the beginning of this campaign, CAL has violated our rights as workers by trying to limit each form of communication available to us in forming our union. Now, in an effort to curb worker exchanges during this campaign on our highly successful Facebook group, CAL has passed a suppressive policy on electronic communications.

The company’s new electronic communications policy is so broad and vague that it provides virtually no effective guideline to workers on permissible speech. This new policy is a blatant un-American, anti-democratic attempt to shut us up. It is highly suspect that this policy was released during the union election period while our Facebook group becomes more popular. It is clear that CAL believes we are winning and is willing to violate our rights in an effort to censor our Facebook group.

We have not permitted CAL to shut us up so far in our effort to form our union and we are not going to let this new policy impact our efforts. We will fight this policy in every appropriate, thoughtful and, of course, legal manner.

The bottom line: This policy violates the freedom of speech and association of every CAL employee regardless of job class. These are precious rights and we will not permit CAL to take them away from us.

In Solidarity,

Your CAL Fleet Service Teamster Admin Team

Rena Conkey-Crowley (CLE)
Stacy Guillory-Moore (IAH)
Carlton Hull (IAH)
Robert T. Cummings (CLE)
James Wells (BOS)
Franz Willette (MSP)

Don’t have Facebook?

1. Go to www.facebook.com and create a new free account. All you need is an e-mail address.
2. Use Facebook SEARCH to find our group, CAL Fleet Service Teamsters.
3. Join our group and start connecting with our CAL co-workers across the country!

 If you haven’t voted in our election yet, do so today. If you have any questions, talk to an organizer or call our hotline at (866) 832-6787.